Biden revealed to Jay Leno that Hunter refurbished his Corvette – that was in garage with documents

The Department of Justice said Thursday that a second trove of classified documents belonging to Joe Biden were found in the garage of his Delaware home that his troubled son likely had access to.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that ‘a small number of documents with classified markings’ were found in a closet in the DC offices of a Biden-affiliated think tank. The discovery was originally made on November 2, just prior to the midterm elections. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that on Dec. 20, the Justice Department was informed that classified documents and official records were located in Biden’s Wilmington garage, near his Corvette, and that FBI agents took custody of them shortly thereafter. 

During a 2016 appearance on Jay Leno‘s Garage, Biden, then vice president, bragged that his sons Hunter and Beau had gotten the engine of the Corvette completely rebuilt as a Christmas present. 

In addition to the documents found in the garage, a separate document was found in a library in the Wilmington home. The same home that Hunter’s driver’s license was associated with in 2018 and 2019. 

During a 2016 appearance on Jay Leno’s Garage, Biden, then vice president, bragged that his sons Hunter and Beau had gotten the engine of the Corvette completely rebuilt as a Christmas present

Boxes can be seen stacked in Biden’s garage in a 2020 campaign video featuring his beloved Corvette

Biden told a crowd at a rally in Michigan in January 2014 that his son’s had replaced the engine in his car as a Christmas gift for him in December 2012, shortly after Biden won reelection alongside Barack Obama, according to Politico. 

Officials have not said for how long the mysterious documents are believed to have been in Biden’s home nor have they said at what point during the Obama administration they were created. 

The classified documents are believed to have contained information on Iran, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and personal family information including documents about the Bidens’ late son Beau’s funeral.   

On Thursday, in response to a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Biden said of his car’s location: ‘My Corvette’s in a locked garage so it’s not like it’s sitting on the street.’

In a 2017 New York Times feature, Biden said that he only used the Corvette for special occasions. A similar 2019 profile on the former senator in the Washington Post noted that Biden still regularly changed the oil in the car. 

Information taken from Hunter’s laptop show that his Delaware-issued driver’s license listed the Wilmington home as his primary residence

In a 2017 New York Times feature, Biden said that he only used the Corvette for special occasions. A similar 2019 profile on the former senator in the Washington Post noted that Biden still regularly changed the oil in the car

Biden’s Corvette was a wedding gift given to the president by his father, a used car salesman, prior to his first wedding

 Biden and his son gave a joint interview to Popular Mechanics on their shared love of cars in June 2016. 

In that interview, Biden shared his most treasured memory involving his Corvette that involved Hunter.

The president said: ‘I guess he was a little over three years old. You were sitting on my lap while I was driving—I know it’s bizarre now to say that. We lived out in a rural area, and we came to a stop sign on a country road.’

He continued: ‘A beautiful day like today, and he’s sitting on my lap, and he turns around and puts his hand on my face and he says, “Daddy? Daddy? I love you more than the whole sky.”

Biden showed off his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray to Leno in 2016, in the final days of the Obama administration. The car was a wedding gift given to the president by his father, a used car salesman, prior to his first wedding. 

In that appearance, Biden was afforded an opportunity to drive his car. Typically both the president and vice president are forbidden from driving themselves by the Secret Service. 

The president told Leno: ‘I was getting married in August of ’67. My dad didn’t have a lot of money but he ran the largest Chevrolet dealership in the state for years. So, there’s 75 people outside the dealership. We pull up, they spread. My dad says, “This is my wedding gift.”‘

Meanwhile, Biden told reporters at the White House that he was ‘cooperating fully and completely’ with a Justice Department investigation as to how and why classified information and government records were improperly stored

 Biden was asked how he could have classified materials ‘next to your Corvette.’ He shot back: ‘By the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage, okay?’

Information taken from Hunter’s laptop show that his Delaware-issued driver’s license listed the Wilmington home as his primary residence. 

Robert Hur, a onetime U.S. attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump, will lead the investigation into the new discoveries, and plans to begin his work soon, according to Garland. 

Meanwhile, Biden told reporters at the White House that he was ‘cooperating fully and completely’ with a Justice Department investigation as to how and why classified information and government records were improperly stored. 

A lawyer for the president, Richard Sauber, said Thursday: ‘We have cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the special counsel.’

‘We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake,’ the attorney continued. 

The disclosure comes as the White House faces multiple questions on why the discoveries have not been revealed until now and who was handling them.

The White House only confirmed the discovery of the Penn Biden Center documents in response to news inquiries Monday and remained silent on the subsequent search of Biden’s homes and the discovery of the garage tranche until Thursday morning, shortly before Garland announced Hur’s appointment.

 Biden, when he first addressed the matter Tuesday while in Mexico City, also didn’t let on about the subsequent document discoveries.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that despite the public omissions, Biden’s administration was handling the matter correctly.

‘There was transparency in doing what you’re supposed to do,’ she said, declining to answer repeated questions about when Biden was briefed on the discovery of the documents and whether he would submit to an interview with investigators.

Pressed on whether Biden could guarantee that additional classified documents would not turn up in a further search, Jean-Pierre said, ‘You should assume that it’s been completed, yes.’

The appointment of yet another special counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents is a remarkable turn of events, legally and politically, for a Justice Department that has spent months looking into the retention by Trump of more than 300 documents with classification markings found at the former president’s Florida estate. 

Though the situations are factually and legally different, the discovery of classified documents at two separate locations tied to Biden — as well as the appointment of a new special counsel — would almost certainly complicate any prosecution that the department might bring against Trump.

New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said of the latest news, ‘I think Congress has to investigate this.’

‘Here’s an individual that sat on ‘60 Minutes’ that was so concerned about President Trump’s documents … and now we find that this is a vice president keeping it for years out in the open in different locations.’

Contradicting several fellow Republicans, however, he said, ‘We don’t think there needs to be a special prosecutor.’

The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that intelligence agencies conduct a ‘damage assessment’ of potentially classified documents. Ohio Rep. Mike Turner on Thursday also requested briefings from Garland and the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, on their reviews by Jan. 26.

‘The presence of classified information at these separate locations could implicate the President in the mishandling, potential misuse, and exposure of classified information,’ Turner wrote the officials.