Here’s What You May Have Missed In The Probes Into Trump, Biden And Pence

August 8, 2022The FBI searched Mar-A-Lago for classified records from Trump’s presidency, months after the National Archives and Records Administration took possession of 15 boxes of documents kept there.

August 22, 2022The New York Times reported that the federal government collected more than 300 documents with classified markings in total from Trump after he left office, including more than 100 classified documents in the initial boxes turned over to the National Archives in January, another batch investigators collected from Mar-A-Lago in June and the records seized in the FBI raid on August 8.

August 30, 2022The Justice Department said in a court motion that it collected evidence that Trump’s team “concealed and removed” documents from the secure storage room where investigators requested they remain, amounting to possible obstruction of its investigation—an allegation that could be the basis of potential charges against Trump, Bloomberg later reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the probe.

January 9, 2023CBS News reported that Biden’s personal attorneys found approximately ten classified documents—some of which reportedly contained intelligence information on Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom—in his office at the Penn Biden Center on November 2, revelations confirmed by Biden’s special counsel, Richard Sauber, who said the records were turned over to the National Archives the following morning, Sauber said.

January 12, 2023Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer revealed at least 11 pages of classified documents, dating back to his tenures as vice president and a U.S. senator, were found at Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home between December and mid-January by Biden aides and Justice Department investigators.

January 12, 2023U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Robert Hur, a former lawyer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland, as special counsel in its investigation into Biden.

January 20, 2023The FBI found “six items consisting of documents with classification markings” during a 13-hour search of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home, Bauer said.

January 24, 2023Pence’s lawyers found approximately 12 documents with classified markings at his Carmel, Indiana, home on January 18, his representative, Greg Jacob, said in a letter to the National Archives, noting Pence was unaware of the records, and they were collected by FBI agents the following day.

February 1, 2023The FBI searched Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and did not find any additional classified documents, but did take “some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President,” Bauer said.

February 10, 2023The FBI found one additional classified document at Pence’s Indiana home in a five-hour search, his advisor Devin O’Malley said.

February 10, 2023Multiple outlets reported that in December and January, Trump’s lawyers turned over to the Justice Department additional classified documents and an aide’s laptop.

February 17, 2023Federal agents searched Pence’s office at his public policy organization in Indianapolis and found no additional classified documents, but removed several “redacted” records, O’Malley said.

February 24, 2023Sources told multiple outlets that the most recent batch of documents turned over to the Justice Department in December and January were discovered after a junior Trump aide who had them in her possession for months transported them from an office in Palm Beach where she had been working to Mar-A-Lago when she was transferred there some time after the August FBI raid.