On 1/23/2023, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy joked at a briefing with the White House press team Monday about their mounting public relations nightmare as President Biden’s classified documents scandal has escalated in recent days. “When you found out that the FBI had located even more classified materials in Wilmington, which four-letter word did you use?,” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who has run much of the damage control since the document development.
Doocy got a surprised laugh out of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Monday’s briefing, catching her off-guard with an outside-the-box question. Doocy, like many others in the White House Press Corps, asked about President Joe Biden and the classified documents that just keep appearing in different locations — but he took a very different approach. “When you found out that the FBI located even more classified materials in Wilmington, which four-letter word did you use?” Doocy asked.
Jean-Pierre, laughing along with several others in the room, replied, “Oh, my goodness, Peter.”
“You can’t say?” Doocy asked. “Okay.”
Throughout the month, Jean-Pierre has fielded a volley of questions from journalists on the investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified records, which authorities found at multiple unauthorized locations. All presidential and vice presidential materials must be delivered to the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act.
Doocy asked Jean-Pierre if President Joe Biden is involved in a “cover-up” in connection with the classified documents discovered at his private residence. The FBI discovered six more documents with classification markings in the president’s Wilmington, Delware, home while conducting a search Friday. The chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, suggested the discovery of the documents have the components of a “potential cover-up.”
“Is President Biden involved in a cover-up?” Doocy asked.
“We have been very clear here from this administration,” Jean-Pierre replied. “The president has been very clear that he takes this very seriously when it comes to classified information, when it comes to classified documents and that his team has been fully cooperative with this legal matter. Anything else, Peter, and I’m going to be very serious … any other underlying questions that you may have, I would refer you to my colleagues at the White House counsel. I’m going to continue to be prudent, I’m going to continue to be consistent and refer you to any questions you have there.”
Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre on the investigation, asking if there is a “set precedent” for presidential candidates to have their private property searched by FBI agents. “Is there a precedent for people running for president after FBI agents search their sock drawer?” he asked.
“It sounds like you already know the answer to that question,” the press secretary replied. “I don’t know the answer to that question,” he said. “An FBI search of a president’s residence is a big, big deal.”
Without directly answering his question, Jean-Pierre said the president will focus on “continuing to deliver for the American people,” and touted the passages of the Inflation Reduction Act, the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the CHIPS and Science Act.
The House Oversight Committee has vowed to open an investigation into the documents found in Biden’s residence and has demanded access to donation records and visitor logs from the Penn Biden Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank affiliated with Biden’s vice presidency. The president’s attorneys found roughly 10 classified documents inside an office at the think tank in November 2022 before transferring them over to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Biden classified docs cover-up? More docs found how Biden takes this very seriously?