US President Joe Biden will have to explain how secret documents ended up in his garage.

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After discovering secret documents in a former office and in Joe Biden's private home, the air for the US President (80 Democrats) is getting thinner and thinner.

His legal advisor, Richard Sauber, said the papers had been "unintentionally misplaced" and assured that the President and his lawyers "acted immediately after discovering this error." But that was not enough; Attorney General Merrick Garland surprisingly set one on Thursday. Special investigator to investigate the explosive case.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he intends to clarify the case fully.

The Attorney General said that former US Attorney Robert Hur would investigate whether laws have been violated. A graduate of Harvard and Stanford, Hur is a partner in a Washington law firm. The special counsel assured a "fair, impartial and dispassionate" investigation. Biden's team also announced that they would cooperate.

Elite lawyer Robert Hur will lead the investigation.

On Monday, the White House admitted that confidential documents from Biden's time as Vice President under Barack Obama had already been discovered in November. Critics drew parallels to an affair involving Donald Trump, in whose luxury Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, numerous confidential papers were found. A scandal! In the United States, by law, presidents and vice presidents must turn over all emails, letters, and documents to the National Archives.

The outcry was all the greater when sensitive papers were also found on Biden. According to consistent US media reports, employees found her clearing out Biden's former offices in the capital, Washington, in November. This week, more papers surfaced in a locked safe in the garage of Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware. The White House confirmed the discovery of a "small number" of confidential documents from Biden's time as vice president.

Trump promptly rumbled against his successor, asking on the Internet: "When will the FBI carry out a raid on Joe Biden's many apartments, maybe even in the White House?" Biden has to put up with this provocation for better or for worse. He had publicly and persistently criticized Trump's handling of the documents.