Pressure grows on Biden administration to reveal list of guests to Delaware home

Pressure is growing on the Biden administration to release visitor logs for his Wilmington, Delaware home after revelations Thursday that classified documents were stored there, in his garage and an adjacent room. 

'We need to know why President Biden has refused to release his visitor logs at his Delaware residences while classified documents were hidden in the garage when foreign visitors with off-the-books meetings could have had access to this information,' said the No. 3 House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik, on Thursday, according to The Washington Times. 

During Thursday's briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged making any kind of commitment to release the Delaware-based visitor logs. 

'Let's not forget what we did here in this White House. We instituted something that the last administration got rid of, which is ... putting out, making sure there was a White House log, extensive White House log,' Jean-Pierre said. 

'I am telling you we did something the last administration got rid, which is instituting the White House logs. Did you ask the last administration why they got rid of the White House logs?' she added.

During Thursday's briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged making any kind of commitment to release the Delaware-based visitor logs

Biden confirmed the documents were kept in a locked garage 'as well as my Corvette' to reporters at the end of a speech on economic progress

The White House has declined to release visitor logs from Biden's lakefront Wilmington, Delaware home (pictured) where he spends most every weekend - and conducted most of the 2020 campaign due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 

She posed that question back to Fox News' Peter Doocy, who had inquired about the logs. 

'I was a campaign reporter covering Joe Biden,' Doocy responded back. 

Former President Donald Trump didn't release visitor logs for the White House, nor for his Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster properties, where he frequently spent weekends and vacationed. 

When The New York Post's Steven Nelson tried to jump in and ask if the Biden White House would release the list of guests, she refused him a turn. 

'Oh, I'm sorry. I was calling the gentleman who wanted to ask a question that was not related to this,' she said.

Jean-Pierre was unable to give a number when asked how many people have been in and out of the Penn Biden Center and the Wilmington residence - where a handful of classified documents from his vice presidential era had been stored.  

'There is an ongoing review of this and I would refer you to the Department of Justice,' she said.  

Thursday's White House briefing was overwhelmed with questions about the earlier announcement of the appointment of a special counsel over the discovery of classified documents at Biden's old office and at the lakefront Wilmington home. 

During the announcement, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that documents were found in Wilmington on December 20 and again earlier Thursday morning. 

The White House didn't publicly acknowledge the documents found in Wilmington until Thursday morning, despite the president speaking about the classified documents found in the D.C. think tank at a press conference Tuesday in Mexico City.  

Biden confirmed the documents were kept in a locked garage 'as well as my Corvette' to reporters at the end of a speech on economic progress.

The Biden White House has long declined to provide an extra layer of transparency by publicly releasing Wilmington visitor logs - despite the president's propensity to spend nearly every weekend at the Delaware home. 

When The New York Post tried to gain access to that information using a Freedom of Information Act request, the paper was told in September by the Secret Service that 'no responsive records' were found.

Rep. James Comer, who just took over the powerful House Oversight Committee last week, said at the time: 'The claim that there are no visitor logs for President Biden's Delaware residence is a bunch of malarkey.' 

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, a Pennsylvania Republican, recalled Thursday how Biden had basically carried out the 2020 campaign from the Wilmington home, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

'Biden hid in his basement during the 2020 campaign. Biden hid classified documents in the garage. What else is Biden hiding in his home?' Reschenthaler tweeted.