President Biden and his top advisers kept the discovery of classified documents secret from the public for 68 days in the futile hope that it could be swept under the rug without any blowback for his presidency, according to a report.
The New York Times, citing anonymous sources familiar with internal White House deliberations, reported that Mr. Biden and a handful of advisers believed they could convince Justice Department officials that the incident was “little more than a minor, good-faith mistake.” They felt the episode was unlike former President Donald Trump, keeping a large number of classified documents at his private Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.