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US President Biden is surprised by the discovery of confidential documents in his former office in Washington. He said it during a press conference in Mexico City. “I was informed of the discovery and am surprised that government documents were brought to that office,” he answered questions from reporters during a state visit.
While cleaning up Biden’s old office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, attorneys found about a dozen documents containing sensitive or classified information. The president stressed to the press that he doesn’t know what he’s saying. His lawyers would have advised him not to ask that either.
Republicans respond outraged about the incident and compare the issue with the Trump case. The difference between the two cases is the number of documents and their content. In Biden’s case, therefore, there are about ten confidential documents, the content of which is unknown. It is certain, however, that this is not about nuclear weapons data.
That was well the case with former President Trump. He was holding hundreds of documents that had not been transferred to the archive, including documents on nuclear weapons from other countries. They were found during a raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Documents from Biden’s office were found just before the November midterm elections. The US Department of Justice is investigating the matter.
