Joe Biden hid classified documents in his garage, office, and home for potentially decades — then concealed it from the American people for as long as he could.
Here’s a day-by-day timeline of what we know so far about the Biden classified document scandal:
- November 2, 2022: Biden’s lawyers find classified documents hidden in a closet at the Penn Biden Center, where Biden had a private office — but with just days until the midterm elections, Biden conceals it from the public.
- Mid-November 2022: The FBI searches offices at the Penn Biden Center.
- December 20, 2022: MORE classified documents are found in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home, but Biden remains silent.
- January 9, 2023: CBS News first reports the U.S. Attorney is investigating classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president that were found stowed away in Biden’s private office.
- January 10, 2023: Biden addresses the scandal for the first time by claiming he takes classified documents “seriously,” but makes no mention of the classified documents found at his home.
- January 11, 2023: Karine Jean-Pierre — allegedly Biden’s top spokesperson — refuses to provide basic details on the scandal, including why Biden’s lawyers were rifling through his things in the first place.
- January 11, 2023: Biden’s lawyers finish searching his home in Wilmington, where they find another classified document “in an adjacent room.”
- January 12, 2023: Americans finally learn Biden was hiding classified documents next to his Corvette in his Wilmington garage.
- Biden says, “It's not like they're sitting out on the street.”
- January 12, 2023: Karine Jean-Pierre repeats six times the search for classified documents at Biden’s properties is “COMPLETE.”
- January 13, 2023: Biden smirks as he ignores a cacophony of questions surrounding the classified documents scandal.
- January 13-16, 2023: Biden vacations at the scene of the crime — his home in Wilmington.
- January 14, 2023: More classified documents than previously known were found at Biden’s home in Wilmington.
- January 17, 2023: Biden continues to ignore questions on the classified documents scandal.
- January 19, 2023: Biden tells reporters he has “NO REGRETS” about hiding classified documents in his homes, office, and garage for as long as six years.
- January 20, 2023: Biden vacations at his Rehoboth Beach home as an FBI search of his Wilmington home turns up even more hidden classified documents from as far back as his time as a senator.
- January 22, 2023: A top Biden advisor says it’s “a little bit complicated” exactly how many classified documents were from at various locations connected to Biden.
- January 29, 2023: Biden once again retreats to his Wilmington home — just days after federal investigators searched it.
- February 1, 2023: The FBI searches Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for additional classified documents.
Ask the Biden administration and they’ll say Biden takes the matter “seriously.”
Americans don’t believe him, and neither do we.