WASHINGTON – President Biden is attempting to distance himself from the scandal brewing over classified documents found at his Wilmington, Del. home — so he’s going to his Rehoboth Beach house as an alternative.
The 80-year-old president will spend one more weekend in his home state, but this time he’s choosing the rich beach community positioned about 90 miles away from his most important house in Delaware’s largest city.
Since taking office in January 2021, Biden has made 52 trips to Wilmington, spending all or a part of 164 days at his residence there, based on a tally by The Post.
Against this, Biden has largely confined his Rehoboth Beach visits to the summer months — this weekend’s trip shall be his first since late October, and that visit was his first since late August.
The president won’t get to experience beach weather this weekend, either: the forecast calls for cold and wet conditions with temperatures within the mid-40s.
Nevertheless, Biden will get to observe the world go by from behind a newly built $500,000 security wall, based on the local Cape Gazette newspaper.
When asked by reporters whether Biden’s midwinter trip to the seaside had anything to do with the continued scandal, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to reply.
“Because it relates specifically to the investigation, I’d refer you to the Department of Justice, so I’m not going to not going to comment on that piece in any respect from here,” she stammered. “Because it pertains to his travel, as you already know, he often travels to Delaware on the weekend. I don’t have anything to share.”
Biden did go to the Wilmington home Jan. 13, a day after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Robert Hur to analyze the handling of classified material from Biden’s vice presidency that was present in the residence’s library and garage, in addition to in a closet of his former office in a Washington, DC think tank.
A minimum of six classified pages have emerged from inside Biden’s Wilmington home — with the variety of sensitive documents present in the garage still unconfirmed.
Ten documents with classified markings reportedly were discovered within the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement office closet, a few of which were labeled “top secret” and included intelligence memos and other material concerning Iran, Ukraine and the UK.
