A court filing by the Justice Department in August 2022 contains this image of documents seized during the FBI's search in Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. President Joe Biden’s lawyers immediately notified federal officials when they found documents, and Biden also consented to searches of his homes and offices. Biden sat for a five-hour interview with the special counsel.
Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden, summarized Trump’s lack of cooperation in a report about Biden’s case. Directing Nauta"to move boxes of documents to conceal them from Trump’s attorney, the FBI and the grand jury." Giving the FBI and the grand jury some of the documents called for by the subpoena"while claiming he was cooperating fully."Biden lawyers alerted federal officials on the same day they found the documents, and Biden cooperated with searches and sat for an interview for the special counsel’s investigation.