Whoops

Stuff reports:

The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of US President Joe Biden’s former institute, the White House says.

Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said Monday (NZT Tuesday), “a small number of documents with classified markings” were discovered as Biden’s personal attorneys were clearing out the offices of the Penn Biden Center.

It was where the president kept an office after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his 2020 presidential campaign in 2019. The documents were found on November 2, 2022, in a “locked closet” in the office, Sauber said.

Sauber said the attorneys immediately alerted the White House Counsel’s office, who notified the National Archives and Records Administration – which took custody of the documents the next day.

Will this be a get out of jail card for Trump? One was accidental and one was deliberate, but this does make it harder for the Justice Department to prosecute Trump.