Joe Biden’s personal lawyer announced that the federal police had undertaken to search the American president’s seaside residence in Rehoboth (Delaware, east) on Wednesday, in “full cooperation” with the latter.
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In his press release, Bob Bauer specifies that this operation, under the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, was “planned”, and promises to communicate when it is finished.
“For security and procedural reasons, (the FBI) wanted to proceed with this action without prior public communication and we have decided to cooperate,” he said.
Federal police had previously previously searched another Joe Biden home in Delaware, located in the city of Wilmington, for confidential documents dating from the 80-year-old Democrat’s former roles as vice president and senator.
The president most often spends his weekends either in Wilmington or, less regularly, in Rehoboth.
Since last November, a series of confidential documents, the exact number and content of which remain unknown to this day, have been found either in an office occupied by Joe Biden in a Washington think tank, or in the house of Wilmington.
These documents date back to Joe Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017) and his three decades in the Senate, during which he dealt extensively with foreign policy.
The Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate these discoveries, embarrassing for the Democratic president because they evoke, despite many differences, a case of official archives taken to Florida by his predecessor Donald Trump.