President Joe Biden greets Vice President Kamala Harris in the West Wing of the White House, Monday, March 14, 2022, before entering the White House Situation Room for a National Security Briefing. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
In SpectatorWorld, Freddy Gray examines the possibility that Democrats are working to discredit and undermine Joe Biden in order to prevent him from running for another term. Gray writes:
There are forces in the Democratic establishment who would now like Joe Biden to take his long-overdue retirement. And the circumstances of this “classified documents” story are fishy, to put it mildly. Just because you’re paranoid, as Joseph Heller didn’t quite say, doesn’t mean they’re not lying to you.
Let’s start with the timing. The first ten of these documents were found, allegedly, on November 2, just before the midterm elections. On that day, Joe Biden’s personal lawyers just happened to be rooting around his private office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement when they came across a file marked “personal” that contained some sensitive state documents that shouldn’t have been there. As every loyal pro-Democratic hack in America will be quick to add, they then did the right thing, alerted the National Archives and promptly handed them over. How very much more proper than dastardly Donald Trump, who illegally hoarded a far larger number of documents at Mar-a-Lago and refused to give them back etc, etc.
But was that initial discovery as accidental as Team Biden makes out? What were Biden’s private lawyers doing digging about in that office at that time? Could it have something to do with the fact the Republicans were just about to win back the House of Representatives, which would give Biden’s opponents the congressional power to investigate parts of his past that he would rather leave unexplored?
Donald Trump calls the Biden family the “the Biden crime family” — and that, of course, is Trumpian hyperbole. But anybody who has read in any detail about the business affairs of Jim Biden, Joe’s brother, and the president’s notoriously troubled son Hunter, knows that the slur is not altogether inaccurate. There are plenty of dodgy dealings in the Bidens’ past. The shadiest period appears to have been during Barack Obama’s second term, when Joe was still vice president and the family endeavored to cash in on his influence wherever possible.
Which brings us back to these discovered files with classified markings, which all allegedly stem from Biden’s time as VP. And some other important questions: what exactly is the purpose of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement of the University of Pennsylvania, which was established in 2017, after Joe Biden left office? Is it just, as its website says, to “engage Penn’s students and partners with its faculty and global centers to convene world leaders, develop and advance smart policy.”
In the two years after it was launched, foreign donations to the University of Pennsylvania tripled, reaching $61 million — much of it from China. How involved was former vice president Joe Biden, who at that time was making considerable sums of money himself, in the Center that bore his name? Clearly, classified government files from his time in power found their way to the Center’s Washington office.
Another key question: why is the story only coming out now — two months after the first lot of files were handed over and almost a month after Biden’s lawyers flagged that another set of “files with classified markings” had been discovered in Biden’s home in Delaware?
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