China News Service, January 15th, comprehensive foreign media reports, the White House said on the 14th that Biden's aides found more classified documents in his Delaware home this week, which brought the total number of documents discovered this week to six pages. .
Biden's "document gate" incident continues to ferment, and Democrats are increasingly worried that this will have a huge impact on his re-election campaign.
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According to the "Washington Post" report, White House counsel Richard Sauber found 5 pages of confidentially marked documents at Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware on the 14th.
"Because I had a security clearance, I went to Wilmington on the night of the 14th to provide the Justice Department with documents that the president's personal attorney had previously found," Sauber said.
"When I turned it over to the DOJ officer who was with me, five more pages were found 'marked confidential', for a total of six pages, and the DOJ officer who was with me immediately took them away."
The White House also confirmed on the 14th that Biden's aides found more classified documents at his Delaware home this week, which brought the total number of documents discovered this week to six pages.
The additional documents were discovered after a White House statement on the 12th, people familiar with the matter said.
The statement said only that a page of classified documents was found in a storage area near the garage of Biden's Wilmington home and that Justice Department staff had gone to retrieve it.
The White House has come under fire for its handling of the classified documents, including why the findings were not disclosed earlier and why, while some were found in Biden's office, it did not say more were found in his home .
Biden's lead personal attorney, Bob Ball, said in a statement that Biden's legal team tried to balance transparency with "established norms and constraints required to protect the integrity of the investigation."
Democrats fear impact on president's re-election bid
At the same time, Democrats are increasingly worried that the controversy surrounding the classified documents will have a huge impact on Biden's re-election campaign.
"Capitol Hill" stated that the Biden team privately wanted to know how Biden explained the "Document Gate" incident, and compared it with Hillary's email controversy that year.
Democrats fear a repeat of the Hillary email controversy.
That caused more anxiety as the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor to look into the matter.
According to a Reuters report, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Garland on the 13th that the Justice Department's appointment of Robert Hull as a special adviser to Biden's confidential documents case raised "basic oversight issues." , They asked the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the White House and Biden's lawyers to provide relevant documents and communications by January 27.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer also sent a letter to the White House earlier on the 13th, asking whether Biden's son Hunter had access to classified documents found in Biden's home.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have launched multiple investigations into the Biden administration, including the Justice Department's handling of the improper storage of classified documents during Biden's tenure as vice president, and the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.