Listen, we found some documents […] that were kept in the wrong place, we immediately turned them over to the archives and the Ministry of Justicesaid the American President during a trip to California to journalists who questioned him on the subject.

” I think you will see that it is windy. I regret nothing. I do what the lawyers told me they wanted me to do. That’s exactly what we do. »

The President added that he was cooperating Completely with justice.

This is a thorny issue for Mr. Biden, who plans to run in 2024, and for Democrats as a whole.

The latter did not hesitate to criticize former Republican President Donald Trump, who was the subject of a court investigation for keeping entire boxes of documents when he left Washington in 2021.

As for the Democratic president, the first classified documents were discovered on November 2 at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington where Joe Biden once had an office, and reported to the National Archives.

Then, in December, the President’s attorneys found in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, a small number of documents possibly confidential, and notified the Department of Justice.

And in January, those lawyers unearthed a confidential document, this time in the room next to the house’s garage. The next day, the attorney for the President’s Office found five more pages there.

To silence suspicion Two weights, two measuresThe Department of Justice has entrusted the investigation of Joe Biden’s files, as with Donald Trump, to an independent special investigator.

The Republican opposition has denounced the Executive Branch’s drip communications. She used her – narrow – majority in the House of Representatives, launched a parliamentary inquiry and demanded more information.

A 1978 law requires US presidents and vice presidents to submit all their emails, letters, and other working documents to the National Archives at the end of their term.