Biden revealed to Jay Leno that Hunter refurbished his Corvette, which was in the garage with documents
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The Justice Department said Thursday that a second trove of classified documents belonging to Joe Biden was found in the garage of his Delaware home that his troubled son likely had access to.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that “a small number of documents with classified marks” were found in a closet at the D.
C. offices of a Biden-affiliated think tank. The discovery was originally made on November 2, just before the midterm elections.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Justice Department was told on Dec. 20 that classified documents and official records were located in Biden’s Wilmington garage, near his Corvette, and that FBI agents took them into custody. shortly after.
During a 2016 appearance at Jay Leno’s Garage, Biden, then vice president, bragged that his sons Hunter and Beau had gotten the Corvette’s engine completely rebuilt as a Christmas present.
In addition to the documents found in the garage, a separate document was found in a library at the Wilmington home. The same house that Hunter’s driver’s license was associated with in 2018 and 2019.
During a 2016 appearance at Jay Leno’s Garage, Biden, then vice president, bragged that his sons Hunter and Beau had gotten the Corvette’s engine completely rebuilt as a Christmas present.
Boxes stacked in Biden’s garage can be seen in a 2020 campaign video featuring his beloved Corvette
Biden told a crowd at a rally in Michigan in January 2014 that his son had replaced his car’s engine as a Christmas gift to him in December 2012, shortly after Biden won re-election alongside Barack Obama, according to Political.
Officials have not said how long the mysterious documents are believed to have been in Biden’s home or at what point during the Obama administration they were created.
The classified documents are believed to have contained information on Iran, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and personal family information, including documents on the funeral of the Bidens’ late son Beau.
On Thursday, in response to a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Biden said of the location of his car: “My Corvette is in a locked garage, so it’s not like it’s on the street.”
in a 2017 New York Times article, Biden said he only used the Corvette for special occasions. A similar profile from 2019 on the former senator from the washington post noted that Biden was still regularly changing the oil in the car.
Information taken from Hunter’s laptop shows that his Delaware-issued driver’s license listed the Wilmington home as his primary residence.
In a 2017 New York Times article, Biden said he only used the Corvette on special occasions. A similar 2019 profile of the former senator in the Washington Post noted that Biden was still regularly changing his car’s oil.
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Biden’s Corvette was a wedding gift his father, a used-car salesman, gave the president before his first wedding.
Biden and his son gave a joint interview to popular mechanics about their shared love of cars in June 2016.
In that interview, Biden shared his fondest memory related to his Corvette involving Hunter.
The president said: ‘I guess he was a little over three years old. You were sitting on my lap while I was driving, I know now it’s strange to say that. We lived in a rural area and came to a stop sign on a rural road.
She continued: “A beautiful day like today, and he’s sitting on my lap, and he turns around and puts his hand on my face and says, ‘Dad? Dad? I love you more than all of heaven.”
Biden showed off his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray to Leno in 2016, in the waning days of the Obama administration. The car was a wedding gift that her father, a used car salesman, gave to the president before his first wedding.
At that appearance, Biden was given the opportunity to drive his car. Typically, both the President and Vice President are prohibited from driving by the Secret Service.
The president told Leno: ‘I was getting married in August of ’67. My dad didn’t have a lot of money, but for years he ran the largest Chevrolet dealership in the state. So there are 75 people outside the dealership. We stop, they spread. My dad says, “This is my wedding present.
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Meanwhile, Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “fully and completely cooperating” with a Justice Department investigation into how and why classified information and government records were improperly stored.
Biden was asked how he could have classified materials “next to his Corvette.” He replied, ‘By the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage, okay?’
Information taken from Hunter’s laptop shows that his Delaware-issued driver’s license listed the Wilmington home as his primary residence.
Robert Hur, a former US attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump, will lead the investigation into the new discoveries and plans to start his work soon, according to Garland.
Meanwhile, Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “fully and completely cooperating” with a Justice Department investigation into how and why classified information and government records were improperly stored.
An attorney for the president, Richard Sauber, said Thursday: “We have cooperated closely with the Department of Justice throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the special counsel.”
“We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his attorneys acted promptly upon discovering this error,” the attorney continued.
The disclosure comes as the White House faces multiple questions about why the discoveries have not been disclosed until now and who was handling them.
The White House only confirmed the discovery of the Penn Biden Center documents in response to news inquiries Monday and remained silent about the subsequent search of Biden’s homes and the discovery of the garage tract until Thursday morning, shortly before Garland announced Hur’s appointment.
Biden, when he first addressed the matter Tuesday while in Mexico City, also did not disclose the subsequent document discoveries.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that despite public omissions, the Biden administration was handling the matter correctly.
“There was transparency in doing what you’re supposed to do,” he said, declining to answer repeated questions about when Biden was informed of the discovery of the documents and whether he would submit to an interview with investigators.
Asked if Biden could guarantee that no additional classified documents would turn up in a subsequent search, Jean-Pierre said: “You have to assume it’s completed, yes.”
The appointment of yet another special prosecutor to investigate the handling of classified documents is a remarkable turn of events, legally and politically, for a Justice Department that has spent months investigating Trump’s withholding of more than 300 documents bearing classification marks. found at the former president’s Florida property.
Although the situations differ in fact and law, the discovery of classified documents in two separate locations linked to Biden, as well as the appointment of a new special counsel, would almost certainly complicate any prosecution the department might bring against Trump.
The new speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, said of the latest news: “I think Congress has to look into this.”
“Here’s a person who sat on ’60 Minutes’ who was so concerned about President Trump’s documents… and now we find out it’s a vice president who kept them out in the open in different places for years.”
However, contradicting several fellow Republicans, he said, “We don’t think a special prosecutor is necessary.”
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that intelligence agencies conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents. Ohio Rep. Mike Turner also requested Thursday briefings from Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about their reviews by Jan. 26.
“The presence of classified information in these separate locations could implicate the President in the mishandling, potential misuse and exposure of classified information,” Turner wrote to the officials.