Documents Found at Biden Office Raise Concerns of CCP Connection
Potentially ahref=”https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-classified”>classified documents at President Joe Biden’s former office space at the Penn Biden Center raises concerns in light of the center’s ties to China and potentially to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).
In November, lawyers tasked with closing down Biden’s office space at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement—a Washington office space Biden jointly operated with the University of Pennsylvania—discovered potentially Classified documents They were kept in a locked cabinet. The Biden administration lawyers discovered the documents and contacted the National Archives and Records Administration to get them turned over.
Two months after turning them over to NARA, the Biden administration announced publicly that they had discovered these documents Monday, Jan. 9.
Kamenar expressed concern over the discovery of these documents during a NTD News interview. This is in light of the $63 million received by the University of Pennsylvania from China in recent months.
“There is a direct connection here because the Penn Biden Center is funded, of course, by the University of Pennsylvania,” Kamenar said. “And our investigation, in fact, our complaint against the Biden center with the Department of Education is that they are getting a lot of money from China, from the Chinese Communist entities there that are really unaccounted for.”
In May 2020, NLPC filed a ComplaintTo request that the Department of Education investigate Penn Biden Center donations from anonymous Chinese sources.
“There’s about $63 million that was given to the University of Pennsylvania over the last few years. Of that, $22 million is listed as anonymous. And there’s one single donation of $14.5 million from one single anonymous source in China. That was given in 2018 when the Biden center opened, and there’s more money given after Biden announced in 2019 that he is running for president. So the question is, how is this Chinese money getting to the Biden center?” Kamenar told NTD News.
According to Kamenar, the University of Pennsylvania insisted the Penn Biden Center is funded through the university’s general treasury, but he said that answer “avoids the question” of are the anonymous Chinese donations to the university related to Biden’s connection with the school?
“The money coming from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where does that go? It’s not given to the music department at the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania has various Chinese-related institutes within the university system, and the Biden Center is one,” Kamenar said. “So it doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that a lot of this Chinese money is being funneled to the Biden Center.”
Discovery raises questions about how and when documents were moved
In addition to the initial discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2, the White House has admitted another set of documents was found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on Dec. 20, 2022, followed by another discovery of documents at the home on Jan. 12, 2022.
Kamenar suggested Biden may have delayed disclosing the initial document findings to the public until after the 2022 midterm election.
“The original set of documents were discovered on Nov. 2, six days before the midterm election so I could see why they kept it secret until after the elections. But now it’s two months later, and we’re finally learning about this. I think they were trying to keep this under wraps,” Kamenar said.
The potentially classified documents found in Biden’s former office space and in his home could have come from his time as the vice president before leaving office in 2017.
Kamenar said the document discoveries raise questions about when they were potentially removed from the White House and where they were stored during the time between Biden’s term as vice president and when he returned to the White House as the president. Biden was appointed an honorary professor to the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. The Penn Biden Center was established in 2018.
“In terms of when were these documents transferred from the White House would [be] when Biden left the White House in 2017, they apparently went to his home in Delaware, and from there, University of Pennsylvania, back to the Biden center here,” Kamenar said.
Kamenar also questioned the timing of the decision to finally close down the Penn Biden Center in November of 2022—about two years after Biden won the presidency—and the involvement of lawyers in that move.
“Why was he moving his office here in the Biden center in November, when he was already out of office for two years? Why did it take him two years to say, hey, I don’t need that office anymore at the Biden center, I should have moved? And then why is he having high-priced DC private attorneys do that moving? I mean, you’re gonna move your office, you hire a moving company or some staffer or intern, say ‘hey, move these boxes back’” Kamenar said. “So there’s a lot that needs to be explored here.”
Comparisons to Trump Mar-a-Lago Papers
Kamenar also addressed comparisons between the discovery of documents at Biden’s office and home to the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to recover potentially classified documents on that Florida property.
The attorney said there’s not much of a fundamental difference between the Trump and Biden’s cases.
“They both involve mishandling classified information. And sure there’s more documents at Mar-a-Lago. But that’s not a legal distinction,” He stated.
Kamenar claimed that Trump’s authority to declassify documents was another distinction. Trump claimed that he was a rel=”https://www.ntd.com/trump-i-declassified-all-materials-at-mar-a-lago_823991.html”>declassified These documents FBI agents recovered the items from his home in August.
“President Trump had the authority to declassify the documents he took from the White House down to Mar-a-Lago,” Kamenar said. “Joe Biden, as vice president, did not have that authority. So he could not claim that, ‘Oh, I declassified these documents.’ So that’s a difference that actually favors Donald Trump.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D.Md.) made the first disclosure of documents at the Penn Biden Center.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Biden’s team “appear[s] to have taken immediate and proper action” Notifying NARA immediately after finding the documents.
Richard Sauber is also a special counsel to the president the documents likely ended up at Biden’s home and office space by mistake.
Sauber declared Biden “takes classified information and materials seriously,” This is an additional feature “we are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake.”
Kamenar praised Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel to review the documents found at Biden’s home and office to show that both Biden and Trump’s cases are being treated seriously.
“At the end of the day, it was important that there be a special counsel appointed to look into the Biden documents, because that’s what they did with Trump and the American people needs to see that justice is being equally handled out here and [in] both cases,” Kamenar said.
From NTD News
Ryan Morgan is a contributing writer to NTD News.
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