President Joe Biden's Delaware home under fresh scrutiny in document drama

The White House confirmed that classified records were found in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, as well as an adjacent room that the president later identified as his personal library Washington: It’s President Joe Biden’s refuge from Washington — a place that’s a part home office, part Sunday family dinner venue, a safe place for his treasured 1967 Corvette and a makeshift campaign studio during the COVID-19 pandemic. The White House confirmed Thursday that classified records were found in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, as well as an adjacent room that the president later identified as his personal library. The book, “Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption,” described him as an “admittedly frustrated architect.” So meaningful is the home to the Bidens that when the former vice president floated the prospect of a second mortgage to pay for his ailing son Beau’s expenses, then-President Barack Obama flatly refused “with a force that surprised me,” Biden wrote in his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad.” “I’ll give you the money,” Obama said, in Biden’s retelling. You can pay me back whenever.” Jill Biden has also written fondly about the home, describing its sunroom — covered in family mementoes, campaign paraphernalia and artwork — as “one of my favourite places in the world.” “The small room overlooks the lake behind our house, and I like to sit with my feet tucked up on the sofa, wrapped in a pashmina, grading papers there from my classes at Northern Virginia Community College, where I’ve taught English and writing for the last eleven years,” she wrote in her memoir, “Where the Light Enters.” “It’s a room made for homeyness and comfort.” This haven for the Bidens quickly morphed into his de facto campaign headquarters in March 2020, when Americans were suddenly homebound with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and presidential candidates ditched in-person stumping for virtual roundtables and Zoom fundraisers.