President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk across the South Lawn of the White House Friday, June 17, 2022, and board Marine One en route to Gordon’s Pond Landing Zone in Rehoboth, Delaware. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)
Originally posted October 6, 2022.
Many Americans have wondered why Joe Biden is spending so much time back in Delaware at his personal residence. He’s spent a astonishing 25% of his time there since moving into the White House. Now, Americans may finally understand why Biden is spending so much time away from the White House. Neither the Secret Service nor anyone else apparently, is keeping track of Biden’s visitors at his Delaware residence. This revelation flies in the face of Biden’s claims of transparency and fair dealing with the American people. He could be meeting anyone in Delaware. The NY Post reports:
The Secret Service says it checked again and still can’t find any records that identify visitors to President Biden’s Delaware residences — where he has spent roughly one-fourth of his presidency — outraging Republicans and prompting one congressman to say “the stonewalling and gaslighting must stop.”
The agency made the baffling claim in its denial of a Freedom of Information Act appeal from The Post.
Secret Service deputy director Faron Paramore wrote in a letter dated Sept. 27 that “the agency conducted an additional search of relevant program offices for potentially responsive records.”
“This search also produced no responsive records,” Paramore wrote. “Accordingly, your appeal is denied.”
The Post is evaluating legal options to acquire records of who visited the president during the nearly 200 days he was at his Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach homes.
Biden spent about 28% of the days during his first year as president at least partially in Delaware, largely out of public view. He has spent an almost identical share of his second year as president in Delaware.
Transparency advocates of varying political stripes have fought in court for decades to identify presidential influencers, saying it’s important for the public to know who shapes government policy.
Biden’s detractors, meanwhile, note that he made a habit of meeting with his family’s influence-seeking international business partners before he took office and question whether that remains the case.
Congressional Republicans are vowing to aggressively pursue transparency, including with regard to Biden’s link to his family’s consulting businesses, if they retake control of one or both chambers in the November midterm elections.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is poised to lead the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House, said the Secret Service should hand over records of the president’s guests.
“The claim that there are no visitor logs for President Biden’s Delaware residence is a bunch of malarkey,” Comer told The Post.
“Americans deserve to know who President Biden is meeting with, especially since we know that he routinely met with [first son] Hunter’s business associates during his time as vice president,” Comer said.
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