Court records show that the government engaged in a lengthy dispute with Trump in order to retrieve the classified and sensitive records he took with him, with FBI agents ultimately searching Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in August. He denies wrongdoing.
Comer told CNN in November that it "will not be a priority" for the Oversight Committee to look at Trump's handling of documents in that case.
Court records show that the government engaged in a lengthy dispute with Trump in order to retrieve the classified and sensitive records he took with him, with FBI agents ultimately searching Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in August. He denies wrongdoing.
Comer told CNN in November that it "will not be a priority" for the Oversight Committee to look at Trump's handling of documents in that case.
Writing to Wall at NARA on Tuesday, Comer took issue with the delay in learning about the documents found at Biden's office, suggesting it "raises questions about political bias at the agency."
ABC News and other outlets reported on Monday that the DOJ has launched a preliminary review of the matter -- some two months after Biden's attorneys say they first discovered the records at his personal office and notified NARA.
Comer requested that his committee staff be able to interview the NARA general counsel, Gary Stern, and its director of congressional affairs, John Hamilton, by Jan. 17.
"The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings," Richard Sauber, a special counsel to Biden, said in a statement on Monday.
Sauber said the documents were found on Nov. 2 and NARA was notified by the White House on the same day, then took possession of them on Nov. 3.
Sauber said the documents were found by Biden's personal attorneys while they were "packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space" at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center in Washington. "The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives," Sauber said.
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer speaks to reporters on his way to a closed-door GOP caucus meeting at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2023.
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