The White House confirms that more classified documents have been found at US President Joe Biden’s property in Delaware than initially reported.

Joe Biden’s lawyers have found more classified documents at the home than they initially said, according to the White House.

This was reported by Reuters, which wrote that it will be about five more classified documents.

So the total number comes to nearly 20, he writes CBS News.

Thus the documents were found in two different places. Next to the garage of the President of the United States at his private address in Wilmington Delaware, and in a Biden office discarded at a think tank.

The documents in question were supposed to have been found just hours after Thursday’s announcement, according to New York Times sources.

– When I handed it over to people from the Ministry of Justice who were with me, five more pages of classified information were discovered in the material. In total there were six pages. Justice Department representatives promptly took care of the materials, Biden special counsel Richard Sauber says in a statement Saturday, according to NTB.

– We are satisfied that the investigation will show that these were misplaced, said the White House press secretary on Friday.

appointed a private investigator

to me hv news He is Robert Hoare’s appointee private investigator private investigator Private investigators may be appointed for politically sensitive cases. They must operate independently of the leadership in the Department of Justice and the President. By Attorney General Merrick Garland after the results Thursday.

Robert Hoare is a former Maryland federal prosecutor, handling the investigation from the Chicago federal prosecutor’s office.

The Reuters news agency reported Thursday night that Biden claims he doesn’t know what’s in the classified documents, and that they weren’t shown to be there either.

– I still don’t know much

It is said that the documents date back to the period in which he served as vice president to former President Barack Obama.

– We do not know why the documents were at his private address and how they ended up there. We also do not know what kind of documents these are yet. Hugestol, associate professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo and senior deputy in parliament for the Oslo Liberal Party, said there are different levels of classified information.

US expert Sophie Hugestol described the situation on Thursday as difficult for the Democratic president.

– This is a political and legal problem for Biden, says Høgestøl.

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