President Joe Biden blamed his staffers for leaving a trove of classified documents at his private residence and think tank.
In an interview with PBS News Hour host Judy Woodruff, Biden downplayed the severity of the classified documents. He dismissed them as “stray papers” and items from the 1970s.
“The best of my knowledge, the kinds of things they picked up are things that are from 1974 and stray papers — there may be something else. I don’t know,” he said.
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“One of the things that happened is that, what was not done well, is as they packed up my offices to move them, they didn’t do the kind of job that should have been done to go thoroughly through every single piece of literature that’s there,” he added.
In a common refrain from the president over the scandal, he attempted to contrast his situation with that of his predecessor.
He said unlike former President Donald Trump, “no one has had to threaten to do anything,” and his documents weren’t “laid out” on the floor with “top-secret code word and all the rest.”
He also stressed that he went above and beyond to cooperate with the FBI, even inviting them to “come and look and spend hours searching my home. I invited them.”
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Biden concluded by saying he was advised by his lawyers not to comment on the investigation in order not “to prejudice the investigation that’s going on.”
