White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday refused to confirm her previous statement that the search for more classified documents tied to President Joe Biden has been completed.
During a press briefing on the afternoon of Jan. 12, Jean-Pierre told reporters that the president’s lawyers had looked through locations where additional documents could be stored and that the search was “completed.” On Jan. 14, however, White House special counsel Richard Sauber said he went to Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and found more classified material.
“Last week [you said] that we all can assume, the American people could assume that the searches were completed and all the documents have been recovered,” the Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller said during Tuesday’s press briefing. “On Saturday, the White House Counsel’s Office said that five additional classified documents had been found.”
“Is it safe to assume now that all the documents have been recovered, all the official records, all the classified documents are back in the custody of the National Archives?” Miller asked. “Or are more searches underway to find out if there’s anything out there?”