Classified Documents Found at Joe Biden’s Office

President Biden was "surprised to learn" that classified documents were found in an office he kept after leaving the vice presidency.

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00:00It was recently reported that government records from President Joe Biden's time as Vice President

00:04were found at one of his former private office spaces in Washington.

00:07I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn

00:10that there were any government records that were taken there to that office.

00:16Many Republicans have been quick to compare this to the classified documents that were

00:19hoarded by former President Donald Trump and later seized at Mar-a-Lago. However,

00:23there are a couple clear distinctions. First of all, there were only 10 documents found in

00:27Biden's office. Trump was holding over 300. Some of Biden's have been classified as top secret,

00:32as were 60 of Trump's. Secondly, once discovered, Biden said that his attorneys immediately turned

00:37the documents over to the National Archives. Trump, however, obstructed their handover and

00:41refused to return them to the agency upon request. He even asserted ownership over

00:45the government documents and outlandishly claimed to have declassified them.

00:49The documents found in Biden's office are now being reviewed by a US attorney,

00:52but Biden will likely face the same questions Trump did. Was he entitled to these documents?

00:56Were they stored properly? And why did he even have them?