The foreign president has had months to mount his defense in the public eye. There's been talk of him talking about the documents and specifically wanting to keep them from the government. The reporting seems to be pointing toward the idea that this stuff was just kind of accidentally packed in boxes at the end of the Obama administration for Biden.
For the first time in American history, a former president faces federal charges. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael and Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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