PresidentJoe Bidenis speaking about why he believes classified documents made their way to his Delaware home and Washington, D.C. office.
While appearing onPBS NewsHourWednesday, Biden, 80, sat down for an interview with Judy Woodruff, where he seeminglyblamed the misplaced documentson the workers who packed up his vice presidential office.
In the chat, Biden explained that he is not going to “prejudice the investigation that is going on” and said he allowed investigators to “voluntarily” search the key locations — something Woodruff, 76, pointed out differed from former presidentDonald Trump’s handling of classified documents.
“No one’s had to threaten to do anything. [I] voluntarily opened every single aperture I have in the house, offices, everything, for them to come and look and spend hours searching my home,” he said. “I invited them.”
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Then stating that to “the best of my knowledge, the kind of things they picked up were things from 1974 and stray papers,” Biden continued, “There may be something else, I don’t know.”
“But one of the things that happened is, what was not done well is, as they packed up my offices to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should’ve been done to thoroughly go through every single piece of literature,” he added.
The president said that looking ahead, he will wait to see what the results of the investigation from officials are.
“I’ll just let the investigation, you know, decide what’s going on, and we’ll see what happens,” he said onPBS NewsHour.
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Classified documents were found at Biden’s offices and at his Delaware home in recent weeks, leading Attorney GeneralMerrick Garlandto announce the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the storage of the documents.
Under thePresidential Records Act, presidential and vice-presidential records are the property of the federal government, with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) responsible for the “custody, control and preservation” of those materials once an administration ends.
source: people.com
