President Biden has been interviewed by the Justice Department’s special counsel investigating the commander in chief’s handling of classified documents since his time in the Senate and as vice president, the White House said late Monday.
The interviews were “voluntary” and were conducted at the White House on Sunday and Monday, Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, said in a statement announcing the first major development in the case in months.
“The president was interviewed as part of the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Hur,” Sams said. “The voluntary interviews were conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded on Monday.”
“As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it is appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, as transparently as we can consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation.
We will refer other questions to the Department of Justice at this time,” the statement concluded.
Hur, 50, was appointed in January to lead an investigation into the 80-year-old president’s handling of classified documents after revelations that Biden hid sensitive records in an abandoned office of the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington and next to his Corvette in the garage. in Wilmington, Del., his home.
President Biden was interviewed by the Justice Department’s special counsel investigating the commander-in-chief’s handling of classified documents.AP
Discovery on Nov. 2. 2022, by Biden’s lawyers against at least a dozen classified documents – some related to the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Iran – in his old office near the US Capitol kept secret by the White House during the mid-2022 election and several weeks after.
More sensitive documents were found at Biden’s Wimington home in January after an FBI search. The bureau also searched the President’s Rehoboth, Del., home as part of the investigation but found no additional documents.
Biden has dismissed the shocking discovery as just “stray papers” that ended up on his property and private office because of careless aides cleaning his White House office over the past decade.
“As far as I know, the type of things they’re taking are things that are from 1974 and stray papers — there may be other things, I don’t know,” Biden told PBS News Hour host Judy Woodruff earlier this year, trying to contrast his misappropriation of classified materials with former President Donald Trump’s document scandal.
The bureau also searched the President’s Rehoboth, Del., home as part of the investigation but found no additional documents. Ron Sachs/CNP / SplashNews.com Sensitive documents were found at Biden’s Wimington home in January after an FBI search. Joe Biden
Biden argued that unlike Trump, “no one has to threaten to do anything” and that he does not have his vice presidential and senate documents “laid out” on the floor, with “secret code words and everything else” – referring to the picture The FBI’s infamous Trump White House secret papers spread across the carpeted floor of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump, 77, pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of concealing national security material at his Palm Beach, Fla., estate. after leaving office — and then lied to federal authorities who requested the documents.
Biden’s interview with the special counsel appeared to explain why the White House declared for the second day in a row on Monday that there would be no public appearances by the president – moments after the State Department confirmed that at least 11 US citizens were among more than 900 killed by Hamas terrorists during their weekend attack on Israel.
Special Counsel Robert Hur was appointed in January to lead the investigation into the 80-year-old president’s handling of classified documents.AP
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
In August, Biden insisted that Hur was not interested in interviewing him as part of his investigation.
“There was no such request and no such interest,” Biden told reporters in South Lake Tahoe, California, when asked about reports that Hur’s office and lawyers for the president had negotiated the terms of a possible interview.
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