President Biden has said he has “no regrets” about his decision not to inform the general public about the discovery of classified documents at his former office ahead of the midterm elections back in November.
Biden made the comments at a press conference in Aptos, California on Jan. 19 where he has been assessing the damage caused by deadly storms that have hit the region in recent weeks.
The Democrat was persistently questioned by reporters regarding the discovery of classified documents and official records at his former office in Washington and his home in Delaware.
At one point, Biden appeared to become frustrated when asked if he has any regrets about the classified materials.
“You know, what quite frankly bugs me is that we have a serious problem here we’re talking about. We’re talking about what’s going on. And the American people don’t quite understand why you don’t ask me questions about that,” Biden said.
He then went on to explain the administration’s actions after discovering the classified materials, adding that he has no regrets about choosing not to reveal the existence of the documents back in November, before the midterms elections.
Documents Were ‘Filed in Wrong Place’
“Okay, look, as we found, we found a handful of documents were failed, were filed in the wrong place,” Biden said. “We immediately turned them over to the archives of the Justice Department.”
The president added that he was “fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly.”
“I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets. I’m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. That’s exactly what we’re doing. There’s no ‘there there,’” Biden added.
Classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president have been discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where Biden previously had an office, and at one of his homes in Wilmington, Delaware.
White House attorneys disclosed that the first batch of materials was found on Nov. 2 at the Penn Biden Center, which prompted a follow-up search leading to the discovery of more documents on Dec. 20 in the garage of the president’s Wilmington home. On Jan. 11 and Jan. 12, more documents were found in the president’s home library.
White House special counsel Richard Sauber has previously said that the White House was “confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake.”
Discovery Won’t Impact Biden’s Re-election Bid: White House Spokesman
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed Robert Hur, a former Maryland U.S. attorney, to serve as special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s inquiry into the documents and establish whether or not Biden or those around him broke the law in their handling of the documents.
The White House counsel’s office has stated that Biden is committed to operating with the Justice Department’s investigation into the classified documents.
The discovery of the classified materials comes amid an ongoing DOJ investigation into former President Donald Trump, who had over 11,000 documents and materials—including around 100 documents marked classified or top secret—seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence in August.
Speaking to CNN on Thursday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates was asked whether he believes the latest discovery of the classified documents could impact support for Biden ahead of a possible re-run.
“Look back from shortly before the president launched his campaign to now, the accuracy rate of pundits’ negative predictions about him or his strategies is dismal,” said Bates, adding that the administration is unfazed by the political backlash regarding the discovery. “Our MO, by contrast, has aged well: Tune out the noise, do the work, deliver; and remember that the president knows the American people and they know him.”
When asked again if the discovery will have an impact on support for Biden, Bates said, “It doesn’t.”
Mr Perfecto makes no mistakes—why would he have any regrets?
OF course libtards have no regrets. THEY WON’T even acknowledge they messed up!
Of course biden has no regrets, delaying the notification until after the elections may have helped Democrats in the midterms.
And remember biden finding the classified documents now and turning them in doesn’t address the fact that the documents have been stored unsecured for six years and we have no idea who may have seen them nor how much they might have affected our national security. It also doesn’t address the fact that as a VP when the documents were taken, biden did not have the authority to take them and store them unsecured and he never had the authority to declassify them. His authority now as POTUS is far different than six years ago as VP or an ex-VP.
Hiding this information from Americans definitely is not being the most transparent administration ever that biden promised to be.
rlbuzz00 “And remember biden finding the classified documents now and turning them in doesn’t address the fact that the documents have been stored unsecured for six years and we have no idea who may have seen them nor how much they might have affected our national security.”
And, after six years, is this really all of them…or just what’s left?
Read that as you will…
IT may have?? IT MOST DEFINITELY DID have an impact.
Biden has no regrets because like all progressive socialists he believes that the end justifies the means. Lying, stealing elections, smearing opponents, abusing the legal system, etc. are all simply legitimate means of achieving the ends to these miscreants.
Filed in the wrong place? Dumped in a box in the garage behind his Corvette? And I’m sure he has “no regrets” since revealing that information BEFORE the election could have caused some of the conniving Demmunists to lose in the midterms. And no regrets because he is confident NOTHING will happen as a result of his malfeasance. Why, hell, if he can brazenly take money from China, leave classified documents in that “think tank” office in the SAME BUILDING where an entity of the Chinese Communist Party had an office and all the other treasonous and/or criminal things he has done, confident that HIS weaponized DOJ and the complicit media will cover up ANYTHING he does and there will be NO consequences, why would he have any “regrets?” SMH
Of course, not the big guy he knows the left and msm will continue to circle the wagons for him. Truth, honesty and transparency is for others not joe and his ilk! IMO
Well the Democrats have been slobbering all over themselves calling for Trump to be charged and indicted and put in jail for having classified documents. So it must be a pretty big deal when you commit a criminal offense that could have a penalty of jail or prison. Biden brushes it off like “Hey man, it is no big deal for a President or a Vice President to have classified top secret documents. There are more important things going on. Yet the Democrats have spent last 2 years on Trump, Trump, Trump. Now all of a sudden possession of classified documents is no big deal.
THEY have been after trump, SINCE HE ANNOUNCED His run for 2016…
The press should stop asking questions that the president doesn’t understand, after all, what is regret? Please stick to flavors of ice cream, Brandon will do well.
No regrets; hunter took good care of them to make sure only he (hehe) knew what to do with them.