“The kinds of things they picked up are things that are from 1974 and stray papers – there may be something else, I don’t know,” Biden told PBS.
Nothing to see here — according to the president.
“The best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up are things that are from 1974 and stray papers – there may be something else, I don’t know,” Bidenhost Judy Woodruff on Wednesday, attempting to contrast his mishandling of classified material to former President Donald Trump’s document scandal.
During the brief interview clip, Biden went on to lay blame on the staffers tasked with packing up his office at the White House at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency for not “thoroughly” looking over “every single piece’ of paper in his office.REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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