President Joe Biden confirmed Thursday that a second batch of classified documents was found in his garage, but suggested they were safe because the garage — which stored his Corvette — was locked.
At a White House press conference, Biden downplayed security concerns about the materials found at his house in Delaware.
When a Fox News reporter asked what Biden was thinking by keeping documents in his garage next to his Corvette, Biden pushed back. "By the way, my Corvette's in a locked garage, OK? So it's not like they're sitting out on the street," he said.
"So the material was in a locked garage?" asked Fox News reporter Peter Doocy.
The latest cache of classified documents being unearthed comes after a first batch of classified documents were discovered last fall at Biden's former private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. CNN reported the documents covered topics that included Ukraine, Iran, and the UK.
It is currently unclear how many documents are in the new batch and what they were about.
"People know I take classified documents and materials seriously," Biden said on Thursday, adding he was "cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department review" of the matter.
Biden also takes his 1967 Corvette seriously, a wedding gift from his dad who ran a Chevrolet dealership.
As vice president, he famously burned rubber in his classic Corvette Stingray convertible when he took Jay Leno for a ride.
"It feels great, man," he said. "I shouldn't say it on television...I like speed."
Then former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died in 2021, passed him in a newer model. "I wondered who the hell that cowboy was in front of me," Biden shouted at Powell.
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