CNN Suddenly Realizes Biden’s Family Is Corrupt
According to Fox News, Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates while vice president https://t.co/Nypyen0O7E
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 18, 2023
via redstate:
The mainstream media has devolved into a bloated enterprise that simply copies the work of conservative outlets and publishes it two years later. We saw that with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, where The New York Post was censored and maligned by outlets like The Washington Post only for those entities to “confirm” the Post’s reporting when it no longer mattered.
That dynamic has played out again, this time on CNN, with the liberal network doing a full report on the corruption surrounding the Biden family.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DOJ declined to have the FBI conduct searches and instead allowed uncleared private counsel to do so. If true, it is a level of accommodation that would make a Kardashian
blush.https://t.co/bngjHpEsDV— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 18, 2023
Trump: Has declassification authority
Biden: ZERO declassification authorityTrump: One SECURE location
Biden: Multiple UNSECURE locationsTrump: National Archives was aware
Biden: National Archives wasn't awareYes, there's a difference.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle (@kimguilfoyle) January 16, 2023
Blinken ‘Surprised’ Biden Classified Documents Found at Center He Directed
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 4, 2023.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Jan. 17 that he was “surprised” to learn that classified documents had been discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, where President Joe Biden previously had an office.
Blinken served as Biden’s national security adviser when he was vice president and the two have remained close since Biden became president.
He worked as managing director of the Penn Center in 2018 when it officially opened.
“Just as you heard from President Biden about a week ago I was surprised to learn that there were any government records taken to the Penn Biden Center,” Blinken said during a joint press conference with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Tuesday.
“I had no knowledge of it at the time,” Blinken added. “The White House of course has indicated that the administration is cooperating fully with the review that the Justice Department has undertaken, and I of course would cooperate fully with that review myself.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel, Richard Hur, to investigate the handling of classified materials and whether or not any person or entity broke the law.
The White House counsel’s office also stressed on Tuesday that Biden is committed to operating with the Justice Department’s investigation into the classified documents.
“It’s important to really understand the distinction here: President Biden is committed to doing the responsible thing and acting appropriately,” White House counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams told reporters during a conference call.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to tell reporters during a press briefing whether or not the search for more classified documents has been completed.
Secret Service personnel park vehicles in the driveway leading to U.S. President Joe Biden’s house after classified documents were found there by Biden’s lawyers, in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 15, 2023.
White House Sidesteps Questions About Additional Documents
“I’m not going to comment from here,” Jean-Pierre said when questioned on the matter. “When it comes to the Department of Justice, when it comes to legal matters, when it comes to legal issues, we have been very clear that we’re not going to comment. We are not going to politically interfere.”
At least three batches of classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president have been discovered so far at the Penn Biden Center in Washington—where Biden used an office from mid-2017 until the start of his 2020 presidential campaign—and at as one of his homes in Wilmington, Delaware.
Along with the DOJ investigation into the documents, Republicans also started their own investigation into the matter.
In a statement on Jan. 10, newly appointed House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he is requesting information from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the White House Counsel’s Office about Biden’s “failure to return highly classified records from his time as vice president,” adding that he is concerned that “NARA’s inconsistent application of the Presidential Records Act and treatment of classified records held by former President Trump and President Biden raise questions about potential political bias at the agency.”
The Presidential Records Act, which was passed by Congress in 1978, states that any records created or received by the President as part of his or her “constitutional, statutory, or ceremonial duties” belong to the United States government and should be handed over to NARA when they leave office.
On Sunday, Comer called on White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain to release the visitor logs for President Biden’s Wilmington residence, as well as to provide documents and communications regarding all of the properties and locations that have been searched.
Biden admin spokesperson Ian Sams has said no such logs exist.
White House claimed Biden’s Delaware house used for official business but now says it’s ‘personal’
Biden has met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Joe Manchin at Wilmington home
Joe Biden is shown backing his Corvette into his Wilmington, Delaware, garage in a 2020 campaign video.
The White House has previously claimed that President Joe Biden works while taking trips to his Wilmington, Delaware, home, but it is now claiming that the residence is “personal” amid a number of classified documents being found at the address.
During a White House press briefing on Feb. 25, 2022, former press secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden can get work done from anywhere.
“I will note that, while every president can work from anywhere they are because that is how presidencies are equipped, he is traveling to Delaware for the memorial service of a family member. And he will be — that is why he’s traveling there this weekend,” Psaki said.
“The president has the capacity to make a secure call from anywhere he is, yes,” she added.
But on Monday, the White House Counsel’s Office said that Biden’s Wilmington residence is personal. The office made the statement while explaining why visitor logs don’t exist at Biden’s Wilmington residence.
“Like every president in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the office said.
Notably, Biden has previously held legislative meetings at the Wilmington home, such as one gathering with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
In addition to classified documents being found at Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in November, a number of Obama-era classified documents were also found last week in the garage of the Wilmington home.
The discovery was made during a search of Biden’s Wilmington residence for classified documents.
“Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the president’s personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department,” said White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber in a Saturday statement. “While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.”
Biden was asked about the classified documents last Thursday, telling Fox News they were in a locked garage.
“Classified documents next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Biden.
“I’m going to get the chance to speak on all of this, God willing, soon. But as I said earlier this week — and, by the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage, okay? So, it’s not like they’re sitting out in the street,” Biden responded.
“So, the documents were in a locked garage?” Doocy asked.
Biden’s handling of the classified documents is now the subject of an investigation led by a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Resources:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/finally-cnn/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/blinken-surprised-biden-classified-documents-found-at-center-he-directed_4993342.html?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-claimed-bidens-delaware-house-used-official-business-now-says-personal
