- President Joe Biden downplayed security concerns after classified documents were found at his Delaware home.
- Biden told reporters the documents were in his locked garage, not “sitting out on the street.”
- This is the second batch of documents discovered in Biden’s possession, with the first group found at his former office.
President Joe Biden confirmed Thursday that a second batch of classified documents was found in his garage, but suggested they were safe because the garage — which stored his Corvette — was locked.
At a White House press conference, Biden downplayed security concerns about the materials found at his house in Delaware.
When a Fox News reporter asked what Biden was thinking by keeping documents in his garage, Biden pushed back. “It’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” he said.
The latest cache of classified documents being unearthed comes after a first batch of classified documents related to Ukraine, Iran, and the UK were discovered last fall at Biden’s former private office at the Biden Penn Center in Washington.
It is currently unclear how many documents are in the new batch and what they were about.
“People know I take classified documents and materials seriously,” Biden said on Thursday, adding he was “cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department review” of the matter.
The Justice Department is already investigating Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida and allegedly obstructing investigators.
In September, Biden trashed Trump’s own handling of documents in a 60 Minutes interview as “totally irresponsible.”
