Summary

• Former President Trump has called for an investigation into President Biden's handling of classified documents from his Vice Presidency discovered in a private office.
• Trump references his own investigation for keeping classified documents after his presidency, as well as questioning when FBI would raid other properties of Biden.
• While Biden's team promptly notified the National Archives, Trump kept classified documents even after requests to return them.

Former President Trump has responded to the recent news that the Justice Department is reviewing classified documents from President Biden's tenure as Vice President, which were discovered last fall in a private office that Biden had previously used. In a statement on his social media account, Trump called for an investigation and questioned when the FBI will raid Joe Biden's multiple properties, including the White House.

"When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified," Trump said on his Truth Social account, sharing an article on the document discovery from CBS News.

The discovery of the Obama-Biden era documents was made by Biden's attorneys while they were clearing out an office he used when he served as an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. According to Biden's special counsel Richard Sauber, the legal team promptly notified the National Archives, which took possession of the materials. The documents are now reportedly being looked at by the U.S. attorney general for Chicago, with cooperation from the White House.

Trump's statement referred to the FBI's execution of a search warrant last summer at his Mar-a-Lago residence, where investigators found more than a hundred classified documents kept past his time in the White House. Trump is now under investigation for his handling of the classified materials.

Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also commented on the discovery on social media, "We were told for months that this was treasonous… grounds for impeachment… & meriting the death penalty, yet I have a feeling nothing will happen!?" he wrote on Twitter, retweeting the CBS article.

It is worth noting that Biden's team notified the Archives and turned over the documents upon discovery, while Trump apparently kept classified materials even after requests from the Archives to return them. The Presidential Records Act requires that presidential and vice presidential records be turned over to the National Archives at the end of a given administration for preservation and to protect classified material.

The discovery of classified documents and the way they were handled raises questions about the handling of sensitive information during the previous administration, and whether there will be any repercussions for those involved.