President Biden in a new interview said he has not been briefed on the sensitive documents former President Trump was keeping to his Mar-a-Lago estate, but called his predecessor’s behavior “totally irresponsible.”
Biden told “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday that he has sought to keep himself out of the ongoing investigation, and has not spoken to anyone about whether important national security secrets were revealed because Trump took dozens of confidential and secret documents with him upon leaving office.
“I have not personally spoken to anyone on that — in that regard. I’m sure my administration is aware of all of that, and so is the National Security Council. But I have not,” Biden said.
Biden also reiterated that he was not given advance notice of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August.
The president was asked specifically about a photo released by the Justice Department in a court filing late last month that showed documents marked “secret” and “top secret” splayed out on the carpeted floor of Mar-a-Lago next to a box containing a framed copy of Time Magazine.
“When you saw the photograph of the top-secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, what did you think to yourself? Looking at that image,” Scott Pelley asked.
“How that could possibly happen. How one — anyone could be that irresponsible,” Biden responded. “And I thought What data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that I mean names of people who helped… And it just — totally irresponsible.”
“I have not asked for the specifics of those documents because I don’t want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the Justice Department should move or not move on certain actions they could take,” Biden added.
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Biden slams Trump retention of sensitive documents as "totally irresponsible" https://t.co/NJAt8F1WvB pic.twitter.com/7fZYfZqwrs
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It was ILLEGAL! Why is this so hard for people to understand? And why hasn’t Trump been arrested and jailed well before now?
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