Trump team hands over laptop and other classified documents months after infamous Mar-a-Lago raid

After years of Republicans talking about Hunter Biden’s laptop containing suspicious communications and business details potentially involving President Biden, Democrats now have the opportunity to talk about a laptop belonging to an aide to former President Trump. The laptop was handed over to the authorities in search of classified information.

While Biden’s laptop was allegedly turned over to an electronics repair shop and subsequently turned over to Congress and the media, Trump officials voluntarily turned over the adviser’s laptop to federal investigators, a source told the Associated Press on Friday.

Trump’s legal team’s handover of the laptop and additional items with secret markings is the latest development in a month-long flurry of classified documents now involving President Biden, Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

President Biden is under investigation for his handling of classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home and at his private office at a think tank in Washington, DC

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President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, NY on Saturday, February 4, 2023 ((AP Photo/Patrick Semansky))

On Jan. 12, White House Attorney Richard Sauber found classified documents in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home. Secret documents were also found in the apartment.

Months earlier, documents with secret markings were also found in Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC

The FBI searched two of Biden’s Delaware homes and found classified documents from the Obama administration and Biden’s Senate days in several unsecured areas.

The New York Post reported that some documents in an open box labeled “Important Documents + Photos” on a table at Biden’s home were seen in a photo found on Hunter Biden’s laptop and dated before his presidency.

Biden said he “doesn’t regret” how he handled the classified documents and defended his decision not to disclose their discovery, which came less than a week before the midterm elections.

“I think you’ll find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets,” Biden said in California. “I follow what the lawyers have told me, what they want from me. It’s exactly what we do.”

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“There isn’t one,” he added at the time.

Biden also said, “We found that a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place. We immediately turned them over to the archives and the Department of Justice. We are fully cooperating and look forward to resolving this quickly.”

On Jan. 12, Biden again commented on the discovery, claiming the documents were locked safely in his garage next to his prized Corvette.

“My Corvette is in a locked garage — it’s not like it’s out on the street,” Biden told Fox News’ Peter Doocy.

Joe Biden smiles from the front seat of his Corvette Stingray in a 2020 campaign video to revitalize the American auto industry. (Joe Biden 2020)

The Justice Department has hired a special prosecutor to examine the documents.

Biden did not address the discovery in Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

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The Justice Department has also appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump after hundreds of documents marked as classified were found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

FBI agents served a search warrant at the property in August when they recovered about 100 classified documents, including records classified as top secret.

Former President Donald Trump answers reporters’ questions during an election night party at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday November 8, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. ((Phelan M. Ebenhack for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Former President Donald Trump’s Club Mar-a-Lago is seen in aerial photograph in Palm Beach, Florida on August 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, file)

Prosecutors are investigating whether Trump acted intentionally to keep the materials or whether he or other officials acted to obstruct their investigation.

Another search of the property a few weeks ago, supervised by the Trump legal team, found additional pages of classified markings and turned them over to the Justice Department.

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The Trump legal team is working with investigators to look for other classified documents that may not yet have been found.

This image, contained in a Justice Department court filing dated Aug. 30, 2022 and partially redacted from the source, shows a photo of documents found during the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Aug August were confiscated . (Department of Justice via AP)

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home is seen from the air as a police vehicle is seen in the driveway, Friday, February 10, 2023. (News Nation)

Separately, the FBI conducted a search of Pence’s Indiana home on Friday, during which agents found a single document with classified markings. The search was ordered after Pence’s lawyers voluntarily searched the property last month and found sensitive documents.

Adam Sabes of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.