• Department of Justice discovered six more classified documents during a 13-hour search.
• The president granted access “to his home to allow DoJ to conduct a search.
• Mr. Biden and his wife were not present.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) discovered six more classified documents during a 13-hour search of President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware, according to Mr. Biden‘s lawyer.

Some of the documents seized on Friday at his Wilmington home were from his time as a senator, while others were from his time as Vice President under Barack Obama.

According to lawyer Bob Bauer, “personally handwritten notes” and “surrounding materials” were also taken.

Mr. Biden and his wife were not present.

The president granted access “to his home to allow DoJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material,” Mr. Bauer said in a statement on Saturday.

Earlier this month, Mr. Biden’s lawyers announced that the first batch of classified documents had been discovered on November 2 at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank founded by the president in Washington, DC.

A second batch of records was discovered in his Wilmington home’s garage on December 20, while another document was discovered in a storage space on January 12, according to his lawyers.

‘It’s unclear why Mr. Biden kept them’

The president stated that after discovering the documents, his team immediately turned them over to the National Archives and the Justice Department. It’s unclear why Mr. Biden kept them.

The Presidential Records Act requires that White House records be transferred to the National Archives after an administration ends, where they can be securely stored.

Robert Hur, a special counsel, has been appointed to oversee the investigation into how the sensitive documents were handled.

The lengthy search and subsequent discovery of more documents are causing the president political headaches as he prepares to declare whether he will run for re-election in 2024.

The two-month gap between the first discovery of Biden – days before the midterm elections – and the news being made public in January raises awkward questions about transparency for the president.

Mr. Biden’s team maintains that the president has fully cooperated with the DoJ investigation. Mr. Biden has dismissed the affair as an oversight, saying he has “no regrets” about failing to publicly disclose the discovery of some classified files before the November midterm elections.

The discovery comes as former US President Donald Trump is being investigated for allegedly mishandling hundreds of classified documents at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate and failing to comply with a subpoena.

Mr. Trump and his attorneys refused to turn over the documents until the FBI raided his Florida vacation home last August. He claims that the FBI is treating President Biden more favorably.

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