The revelation that potentially classified materials were discovered at think tank offices formerly used by Biden has prompted questions on how the circumstance compares to the seizure last year of hundreds of classified documents at Trump's residence.
of 11,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office.BIDEN: His personal attorneys immediately alerted the White House counsel's office, who notified NARA, which took custody of the documents the next day, Sauber said.
A few months later, investigators from the Justice Department and FBI visited Mar-a-Lago to get more information about classified materials taken to Florida. Federal officials also served a subpoena for some documents believed to be at the estate. But even if the Justice Department were to find the case prosecutable on the evidence, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has concluded that a president is immune from prosecution during his time in office. Former special counsel Robert Mueller cited that guidance in deciding not to reach a conclusion on whether Trump should face charges as part of his investigation into coordination between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
TRUMP: Trump has claimed at times that he declassified the documents that he took with him — though he has provided no evidence of that. He said inin September that a president can declassify material “even by thinking about it.” There are also possible ramifications in a new, GOP-controlled Congress where Republicans are promising to launch widespread investigations of Biden’s administration.
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