Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said he was “shocked” at how highly classified the documents that President Joe Biden was keeping at his Delaware home were, arguing that they were “eyes only” for the president and vice president.
While appearing on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Waltz addressed the classified documents Biden had at his home, with the representative pushing back against claims that the information contained in these documents was from the Cold War era. He contended that instead, the documents’ information was both “recent” and “relevant” and that the documents had many code words that even he did not understand despite having clearance for 30 years.
“And what you have to understand is the information may be from his time as vice president, but the sources may still be active,” Waltz said. “So I’m demanding to know, and the intelligence committee in the House wants to know, who did Hunter Biden have traipsing through the garage from Kazakhstan, Russia, China, and what have you? And then the Chinese-funded Biden Center, where they were just sitting in a closet? Who knows who was accessing it there.”
The Florida lawmaker added that Biden had notes from classified meetings “lying around his garage,” and that House Republicans are still in the midst of finding out “the extent of the damage.”
Concerns regarding the handling of classified documents has been raised against both Biden and former President Donald Trump, both of whom are running in the 2024 presidential race. Waltz contended that Biden had kept these documents without coverage from the Presidential Records Act, which gives incumbent presidents the sole responsibility for their documents.
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A report released earlier this year from special counsel Robert Hur stated that Biden should not face charges for “willfully” retaining classified documents in his home. This conclusion stems from how a jury would likely consider the president a “well-meaning” but “elderly” man in his mid-80s.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has called for the Department of Justice to release the evidence regarding Biden’s handling of these documents. He specifically asked for the evidence to be released before the 2024 presidential election, as voters should be informed before casting their votes.
