President Joe Biden insists he was not informed about the FBI’s intention to search and seize classified materials from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property before the raid took place.
“I didn’t have any advance notice. None. Zero. Not one single bit,” Biden told reporters Wednesday.
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Biden’s brief response to a shouted question after he announced he was forgiving $10,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year are his first public comments since the FBI executed a probable cause warrant at Trump’s Palm Beach club, where the former president has a private residence and office.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Trump’s attorneys to provide more information as they seek to appoint a special master to review the materials the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago.
A May letter between Trump’s legal team and the National Archives, circulated this week, mentioned the former president having 700 pages of classified materials in his possession before the search, undermining one of his claims that the documents were planted.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has repeated that Biden learned of the search through “public reports” before deferring further inquiries to the Justice Department.
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“President Biden has been very clear from before he was elected president and throughout his time in office that the Justice Department conducts its investigations independently,” she said earlier this month. “He believes in the rule of law, and we are a nation of law.”
