Michael Goodwin: End of an Error of Shielding the Bidens as Classified Docs Scandal Puts Joe’s Presidency in Peril
Insiders love the saying that two weeks is enough time to make a difference in politics. This means anything can happen. In Joe Biden’s case, a mere five days was enough to turn his world upside down.
The Saturday news more classified documents were found in his Delaware home ends a bizarre week that suddenly put Biden’s presidency in peril and further damaged the sagging credibility of the Department of Justice.
Reports surfaced last Monday that said multiple classified documents were found in an office Biden used after leaving the White House as vice president, the propaganda media circled the wagons around him by insisting he’s no Donald Trump. They had a point — up to a point.
However, news reports two days later claimed that another batch of supposedly secret documents was being produced. found in Biden’s Delaware garage, the wall of media protection showed some cracks as the differences between the presidents’ cases narrowed. And when an additional classified page was found in Biden’s Delaware library, and a special prosecutor was appointed Thursday To investigate him, the defenders fled in haste.
Then came Saturday’s finding, which proves the president was serially sloppy with America’s secrets.
Trump looks more like a fortunate man than Biden, who looks like someone who has had his luck.
It’s been a feature of Trump’s political career that he’s been fortunate in his enemies. Say “Hillary Clinton” and it’s enough said.
But Trump’s foolish standoff with Justice over classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago put him on course for criminal charges, especially when Attorney General Merrick Garland put a hard-charging special prosecutor Please refer to the case.
Biden clearly enjoyed Trump’s predicament, having earlier urged that his predecessor be prosecuted for his conduct leading up to the Capitol riot. Asked about Trump’s handling of classified documents in September, Biden crowed on “60 Minutes” that he didn’t understand “how anyone could be that irresponsible.”
Thanks to that quote and his own misconduct, Biden has come to Trump’s rescue, with his multiple document stashes making it nearly impossible for Trump to be prosecuted if Biden isn’t. Garland, whose bitter partisan hack reputation has been solidified, kept the Nov. 2 Biden document finding secret until after midterm elections. It seemed that he was hiding each new discovery until the public became aware of them.
Garland was forced to level the playing field for the presidency only after the leaks. appoint veteran prosecutor Robert Hur to probe Garland’s boss. The curse of interesting time strikes again.
Yet to see Biden’s case as merely a legal, politically inconvenient parallel to Trump’s is to miss the much larger potential for trouble the president faces.
GOP will look for answers
All the president’s men and media helpers won’t be able to limit his predicament to the classified documents. For one thing, the timing of the discoveries couldn’t be worse, coming just as Republicans take control of the House with a pledge to end the see-no-evil approach Dems took to Biden family corruption.
GOP leaders pledged to keep their promises long before the document explosions. follow the millions upon millions of dollars that Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, Joe’s brother, got abroad from selling access to Joe. Based on the contents of Hunter’s laptop, it’s certain that Joe benefited from foreign payments.
As Rep. James Comer of Kentucky put it, “We’re not investigating Hunter Biden. We’re investigating Joe Biden.”
We will need to figure out how much Joe Biden received in cash and what favors he got in return. This is primarily because he was vice president, but it could also be president.
The second reason why the document scandal can’t be isolated is because the papers, some of which reportedly involved foreign nations, were found in locations related to the family scandals. It’s as if the two separate streams are joined as one.
Take, for example: Hunter lives in the Delaware houseHe raised concerns that he may have seen the documents which were not secure and revealed their contents.
You can also find the first batch turned up in the Penn Biden CenterThis is a sinecure that the Ivy League school put together for Biden to hang his hat after he quit the vice presidency in 2017.
In addition to the $900,000 he received from the University of Pennsylvania through 2019, it was only nine students who reported having made public engagements. The Post also reports that the university received $54.6 million in donations in China from 2014 to June 2019, with $23.1 million anonymous gifts.
Many universities received big donations from China as the Communist regime tried to ingratiate itself in America — and sometimes plant spies — but the windfall to Penn coincided with Hunter’s business ventures in China.
Hunter, Joe enmeshed
Recall that in December of 2013, the son flew to Beijing on Air Force 2 with his father, who was the Obama administration’s point man on the country. Hunter had already secured $1.5 billion from a government-controlled bank before they returned home.
Similar patterns were observed in other countries, particularly Ukraine.
Not surprisingly, Hunter played a role in his father’s relationship to Penn. Fox News claims that emails from laptops show that former vice president Amy Gutmann wanted Hunter to attend meetings with her son.
Hunter told a business partner in 2016 that he may need to change the date of a meeting with Ivory Coast’s prime minister. “the Guttman [sic] mtg is a must-attend for me per Dad.”
Another email shows discussions about Hunter’s possible role at the center.
Hunter and Kathy Chung exchanged dozens of emails. She had served as an aide to two senators before Hunter recommended her to his father and she was hired in 2012 as Joe’s gatekeeper in the VP office.
Fox found at least two instances where Chung also helped facilitate Hunter’s influence-peddling schemes.
Hunter and Chung organized a videoconference between Joe Biden, a Mexican billionaire, and Carlos Slim in October 2015. This was at a time when the internet was still new. Hunter hoped to do business with Slim.
Fox reported earlier in the year. “Chung sent Hunter and other members of the Biden family an invitation to attend a State Department luncheon hosted by his father honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping.”
Hunter asked Chung to join him in the VP office after Joe Biden had left it in 2017. Chung declined the offer and went with Joe to Penn Biden Center.
Chung reportedly was questioned by law enforcement Information about classified documents found at this center Gutmann did better. After being nominated by Biden, she is America’s ambassador to Germany.
Regardless of Garland’s intent for the special prosecutor handling Biden’s document case, Comer, Jim Jordan and other GOP inquisitors are not going to stand down. They will act as fact-checkers, hold Garland responsible, and give the public hope that the Biden family grifters will face the consequences.
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