The White House said on Saturday it had discovered more sensitive documents at Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, piling political and legal pressure on to the US president. In a statement, Richard Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, said he had found five pages of classified material in a room adjacent to the garage of the president’s Wilmington home, in addition to those disclosed earlier this week.
The fresh disclosure came after the White House on Monday said it had found classified government records at a private office Biden used in Washington. On Thursday it was revealed that a small batch of papers had also been found at his main residence in Delaware.
The emergence of new classified documents in Biden’s possession led Merrick Garland, the attorney-general, to on Thursday appoint a special counsel to investigate the president’s handling of the documents.