President Joe Biden has mocked his predecessor’s handling of classified information after the FBI seized top secret materials from his Mar-a-Lago home and office.
“I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president, I can do — c’mon,” Biden told reporters Friday on the White House South Lawn.
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Earlier this week, Biden reiterated that he had no prior warning that the FBI had been granted a probable cause warrant by a Florida-based judge as part of its investigation into former President Donald Trump and potential charges under the Espionage Act, among others.
Biden’s comments mark a departure from the White House’s attempts to distance itself from Trump’s legal problems. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected questions during her Friday briefing after a redacted version of the affidavit the FBI used to obtain the warrant was unsealed hours earlier.
Trump’s strategy has relied, in part, on claiming that he declassified the documents the FBI took, repeating Friday he had done “nothing wrong.”
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“We were essentially attacked,” he said. “We were broken into. They opened up safes, they brought safecrackers in. They brought many, many FBI agents in — all right before the midterms and all when I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.”
