The Bidens own a vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Take a look inside the 1,108-person town
The search was part of a special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of the classified materials.
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The search was part of a special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of the classified materials.
U.S. Secret Service agents are seen in front of Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Del., home on Jan. 12, 2021. | Shannon McNaught/Delaware News Journal via AP
By Christopher Cadelago 02/01/2023 09:59 AM EST Updated: 02/01/2023 02:45 PM ESTFederal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth, Del., as part of their ongoing probe into his handling of classified documents, officials said.
Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal lawyer, said in a statement that the president’s team did not seek to provide advance notice of the operation. But he confirmed the search by the Department of Justice was taking place after it was reported by CBS News, which, along with other television outlets stationed outside of the president’s home, observed black vehicles arriving mid-morning.
Federal agents searched the home from 8:30 am to noon, Bauer said.
“No documents with classified markings were found,” he said in a statement. But, as with a similar search at Biden’s other Delaware home, “the DOJ took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President.”
The search is part of a special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of the classified materials found in November at his office in Washington and in December and January at his home in Wilmington. In late January, a 13-hour search of Biden’s home recovered additional classified items.
“We have been pretty transparent from the beginning with providing information as it occurs throughout this process,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, told reporters outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon. “We have released probably thousands of words of statements from the president’s personal attorney and the White House counsel’s office about the process that has been undertaken.”
He added that Biden has been fully cooperative with investigators. “He believes in giving them the space to conduct a thorough review, and to conduct that review efficiently. That’s why he’s moving quickly to give them the access to his home in Wilmington, to give them access to his home in Rehoboth so they can do a full search, so they are able to get access to the information to move ahead in their review.”
The drip of new information has widened the scope of the probe into Biden and raised fresh frustration among some Democrats over why the searches weren’t conducted sooner and more thoroughly. Late last month, however, former Vice President
There is also a separate special counsel investigation into former President Donald’s storage of a far larger cache of classified documents at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
The Bidens bought the beach house after his time as vice president, and his family visits the property occasionally on weekends. Biden’s lawyers said previously that they had searched the Rehoboth home and turned up no classified materials.
The latest search comes as the special counsel in the investigation, Robert Hur, formally begins his work on the case.
The Bidens own a vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Take a look inside the 1,108-person town.
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- The president and first lady are on vacation at their beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
- The Bidens purchased the six-bedroom home in 2017.
- The first family’s children and grandchildren often visit, and Biden rides his bike around town.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are currently vacationing at their beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
After arriving on Friday, the two were spotted reading on the beach on Sunday and riding their bicycles in Gordons Pond State Park on Monday. They will remain in Rehoboth Beach through the week.
Take a look at the quaint beach town where the president and first lady escape the pressures of the White House.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden purchased a vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in 2017.
“Throughout our careers, Jill and I have dreamed of being able to buy a place at the beach at home where we can bring the whole family,” Biden said in a statement in 2017, according to Fox News. “We feel very lucky that we’re now able to make that happen and are looking forward to spending time with our family.”
Biden’s primary residence is a 6,850-square-foot home in Greenville, Delaware, according to Reuters.
The six-bedroom, 5½-bathroom features personal touches.
Delmarva Now reported in 2017 that the Rehoboth Beach property has three fireplaces, two large porches, outdoor showers, an elevator, and a dog-washing station.
A sign reading “Beau’s gift” also hangs on the front of the house, honoring the Bidens’ son Beau who died of brain cancer in 2015.
Biden told CNN in 2016 that he considered selling his Greenville home in order to pay for Beau’s cancer treatments, but then-president Barack Obama made him promise not to and offered to lend him the money, instead.
The Bidens’ children and grandchildren are frequent visitors to Rehoboth Beach.
Biden’s son Hunter and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle had three children together: Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy. He had another son, Beau, with his wife Melissa Cohen, whom he married in 2019.
Hunter also fathered a daughter named Navy with Lunden Roberts, a former stripper, in 2018. Biden publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild for the first time in a statement to People magazine on July 28, saying that “Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.” He added that Hunter and Lunden are “working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter.”
Beau was married to Hallie Biden and had two children, Natalie and Robert “Hunter” Biden II.
The small beach town has a population of 1,108 people, according to 2020 census data.
Rehoboth Beach is located in Delaware’s Sussex County on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
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