US President Joe Biden said Thursday “a small number” of classified documents had been found at his private residence, prompting calls for a congressional investigation into the alleged mishandling of official papers. “People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously,” Biden told reporters Thursday. “They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home and my personal library. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House,” Trump had earlier written on his social media site Truth Social. In a bid to defuse accusations of political interference, Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a Chicago federal prosecutor appointed during the Trump administration to review the lost Biden documents.

Source: The Guardian January 13, 2023 05:23 UTC