Joe Biden under fire as second batch of classified documents found

Discovery at new location linked to president is ‘catnip’ for Republican theories about similar allegations against Donald Trump

Joe Biden
President Biden had criticised Trump for his ‘irresponsible’ handling of sensitive government files
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Classified documents have been found at a location associated with Joe Biden after an investigation was launched into the discovery of another cache of White House files at a separate site.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.