Trump defends Mike Pence over classified documents found at his Indiana home: 'Leave him alone!!!'



Former President Donald Trump responded to the revelations that classified documents were discovered at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Pence's lawyer announced on Tuesday that documents with classified markings were found at his personal residence last week but that the former vice president was unaware of their presence.

Trump issued a brief but impassioned response on Truth Social, his preferred social media platform.

"Mike Pence is an innocent man," Trump wrote. "He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!"

His message garnered more than 4k reposts and more than 16k approvals from other users.

Attorneys for Pence said that he had ordered a review of documents at his home out of an abundance of caution and found a "small number" of classified records. They indicated that the documents were handed over the FBI on Thursday and returned to the National Archives and Records Administration.

“We have not heard from the DOJ since then,” said Pence spokesperson Devin O’Malley.

Pence is just the latest politician to admit that he had possession of classified documents. Trump was in a legal battle with the Department of Justice about documents he possessed when the FBI raided his residence at Mar-a-Lago and seized hundreds of records in August.

Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign was hampered by revelations that she had unlawfully retained classified emails at a personal email server at her home. President Joe Biden also admitted that he had possession of classified documents from his time as vice president, but he returned them to the National Archives.

U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to review the classified documents recovered from Biden for a possible criminal referral.

Pence is considered one of the possible candidates for the 2024 Republican primary race, but so far, only Trump has declared his campaign. A recent poll found that Pence garnered support from only 9% of likely GOP primary voters, compared to 46% that said they would support Trump.

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Second batch of Biden's classified documents found at different location



A second batch of classified documents from Joe Biden's tenure as vice president was discovered at a different location than the first batch reported on Monday.

Biden aides are reportedly operating an exhaustive search effort for classified documents that have been misplaced, according to sources familiar with the operation.

The original classified documents were discovered at a think tank in Washington, D.C., and reported to the National Archives. Officials at the National Archived took possession of the documents and then informed the Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland later appointed the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois to review the documents found.

Critics of the president pounced on the news to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats criticizing former President Donald Trump for the trove of classified documents seized by the FBI at his residence at Mar-a-Lago. Some point out that the documents were found days before the midterm elections, but it was not revealed until after the election.

An attorney for the president said in a statement Monday that the documents were found in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.

While the original batch numbered around ten documents, the number of those in the second batch discovered remains unknown publicly.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio was among those criticizing Democrats for the newest development.

"First, they find classified documents at the Biden Center," tweeted Jordan. "Then, the White House refuses to say if they’ll find more. Now, the news reports that a second batch of classified documents have been found."

Liberal defenders of the president, like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, claimed that Biden had accidentally taken the documents and tried to refute the notion that the incident was in any way similar to the accusations against Trump.

"Again, this was not, as it was in Trump’s case, the archives desperately seeking the return of the material that Trump was blowing off, and Trump was blowing off those requests, and ultimately, blowing off the subpoena to return those documents," said Maddow to her audience.

"These appear to be documents that were inadvertently held at the Penn Biden Center, discovered by Biden’s attorneys," she added.

Here's more about the second Biden batch

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Breaking: US attorney to review classified documents from Biden's VP office found at a think tank



U.S Attorney General Merrick Garland tasked the U.S. attorney in Chicago with reviewing classified documents found at a think tank, according to two sources who spoke to CBS News.

The documents were discovered at a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C.

CBS News reported that the FBI was also involved in the probe of the documents, which number about 10.

Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, confirmed that the documents had been found on Nov. 2, just ahead of the midterm elections, and reported to the National Archives.

"The discovery of these documents was made by the president's attorneys," Sauber said. "The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the president's personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives."

CBS News said the National Archives contacted the Department of Justice about the incident.

Garland could assign a special prosecutor to the case after the Chicago U.S. attorney's office completes the preliminary investigation.

The turn of events will severely undermine Democratic efforts to criticize and excoriate former President Donald Trump over numerous classified documents seized from his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump first acknowledged the raid at his residence in a tweet from August 2022 in which he accused the Biden administration of illegally ordering the action with political motivations. He has since argued that because he was the president, he had the power to unilaterally declassify any documents, but his attorneys have not made that argument in court.

In the most recent development over the Mar-a-Lago documents, a federal judge refused a request from the Department of Justice to hold Trump in contempt of court for refusing to comply with a subpoena.

Here's more about Biden's classified scandal:

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