The aides of President Joe Biden have found additional classified documents in his custody at a different location, according to a report by NBC News.
The report doesn't specify where or when the new documents were found, but it's evident that there is a plan in place for the White House to attempt to clean up the Biden documents issue in preparation for his possible bid for reelection in 2024.
The recently discovered documents were located in a different location than the private office connected to the University of Pennsylvania think tank, where Biden used to work, which is located in Washington, D.C., where the first batch of classified documents was found.
Biden said on Tuesday that he had been “surprised” that classified documents had been discovered in his possession, reiterating his ignorance of their content.
“I was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office,” Biden stated, reacting for the first time publicly to the news at a press conference in Mexico City.
“I don't know what's in the documents,” he continued. “My lawyers have not suggested I not ask what documents they were.”
Biden also disclosed Tuesday that “boxes” of documents had been given to the National Archives.
The White House has stonewalled any further information regarding the documents, which were first discovered just a few days prior to the 2022 midterm elections.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not even acknowledge if Biden's aides were searching his other properties to determine whether they contained classified documents.
