Democrat President Joe Biden’s team has decided to defend the discovery of numerous sets of classified documents in his possession found in multiple different locations by saying he “inadvertently misplaced” the documents – while simultaneously claiming that he “takes classified information and materials seriously.”
The contradictory claim came from Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden, who released a statement making the defense on Thursday.
“As the President has said, he takes classified information and materials seriously, and as we have said, we have cooperated from the moment we informed the [National] Archives that a small number of documents were found, and we will continue to cooperate,” Sauber said. “We have cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the Special Counsel.”
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake,” he added.
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The first set of classified documents were found by BIden’s lawyers in a locked closet in offices of the Biden Penn Center in Washington on November 2 – just days before the midterm elections. For some reason, the discovery was not publicly revealed until Monday, more than two months later.
As explained by Fox News, “after Biden’s personal lawyers found the initial documents, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.”
“Sauber said a ‘small number’ with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. Biden later revealed that the other location was his personal library,” the outlet added.
