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Di Leo: How Mishandled Classified Documents Could Spell the End for Biden
Illinois Review ^ | January 18, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo

Posted on 01/18/2023 9:25:58 PM PST by jfd1776

The Question of the Day – the question on everyone’s mind is, “why classified documents?”

If the Democrats, having understandably decided that it is finally time to throw Joe Biden under the bus, are looking for the perfect method to get popular support for his ejection from office, why use classified document abuse as the justification?

Nobody knows for sure, of course.

You can’t read Democrats’ minds, for obvious reasons. But there has to be a reason they chose this one, out of all the issues at hand that would justify his departure.

He could, and certainly should, be thrown out on 25th Amendment grounds.

Every observer knows that this usurper’s mental deterioration is proceeding at a fast clip. Every interaction with the press demonstrates that he is the textbook case of a 25th Amendment removal.

The problem for the Democrats is that everyone in the country knew that he had this condition before he ever won the primaries.

To acknowledge his mental incapacitation now would be to admit the party’s own malevolence in intentionally advancing a malleable, incompetent candidate in the first place.

The Democrats therefore cannot remove him on those grounds. It indicts the entire Democrat leadership, if not their entire voter base as well.

Joe Biden could also be impeached by Congress, perhaps for the crime of willfully worsening the nation’s national security; by failing to protect the border, and therefore by intentionally flooding the country with illegal aliens; and with all the diseases and crime sprees that accompany such crowds.

If the House succeeds in passing an impeachment on these grounds, the Senate will be forced to vote on it. Democrats in the Senate are terrified of the thought of explaining either vote in their next reelection campaigns: a vote to impeach dooms them with their Democrat base, and a vote to acquit would doom them with Republicans and independents.

But the border isn’t the only policy that provides grounds for an impeachment.

Republicans could move to impeach on the basis of Biden’s illegal executive orders, such as the termination of legitimate business contracts in the keystone pipeline (which also rightly prompted embarrassing disputes with our neighbor, Canada); and the emptying of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, necessitating refilling at peak prices; the appointment of not just incompetent, but plainly anti-American appointees throughout his regime; the abuse of spending bills by using the federal budget as a cash cow to reward unions, left-wing interest groups, and the corrupt political machines in America’s big cities with misnamed handouts.

All these, and many more, could be grounds for impeachment, because each one includes numerous high crimes, from violations of the Hatch Act to abuse of executive authority, to clear violations of the Constitution and diminishment of our national security.

But the Democrats cannot allow such an impeachment to go forward; they simply must cut it off at the pass. Each such issue exposes the complicity of the entire modern Democratic Party.

It is not Joe Biden alone who breaks the law, after all: it is Democrat Party policy to break the law. It has been for years.

So, the powers that be, the Democrat machers who realize the need to remove this millstone from the party’s neck as quickly as possible – settled on the classified document story as the perfect solution to their conundrum.

What could be better? Rather than pulling down the entire regime with him, Joe Biden’s illegal retention of classified documents following his vice presidency would involve only him, and perhaps a tiny number of his close aides.

While everything else makes the entire Democratic Party look bad, faulting Biden for improper handling of documents isolates Biden alone, and better yet, it sounds like the “good government” thing to do.

The Democrat machers really thought this through.

If they can force Biden to resign due to this particular scandal, the rest of the Democratic Party is untouched; their myriad policy evils are uninvolved; and it even helps the Democrats disprove one of the Right’s most effective and clearly legitimate arguments: the existence of a double standard in law enforcement.

Just imagine, the Democrats attacked Trump for alleged mishandling of documents, and now they might throw out their own sitting president for what looks to the layman like exactly the same crime. Wouldn’t that be a feather in their caps, making them look like the honorable party, making them look like heroes?

It really was a brilliantly thought-out idea. Give the Democrats credit for a strategy; Republicans would never have come up with such a brilliant solution.

Perhaps, in light of all this, the Democrats can be forgiven if they never realized how the exposure of all these hidden documents would reveal a smoking gun in the form of the Biden family corruption racket — the massive bribery schemes at the heart of the Joe Biden family’s long-standing “business contracts for access” rackets with China and Ukraine; not to mention literal, precise proof of just how exactly Hunter Biden was delivering his famous “10 percent to the big guy” in the form of $49,000 rent payments for a house with a certain, now very famous, garage-kept Corvette.

Oh well. As the Scots would say, even the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray.

Copyright 2022 John F. Di Leo

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, and former president of the Ethnic American Council, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009.

A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, The Tales of Little Pavel, and his 2021 political satires about current events, Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes One and Two, are available, in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: 25thamendment; bidenvoters; classifieddocuments; cmonmanitsacorvette; democrathypocrisy; filegate; garagegate; joebiden; selfpromotion
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1 posted on 01/18/2023 9:25:58 PM PST by jfd1776
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To: jfd1776

the dems dont want their fingerprints on this

classified documents are his own fault

plus they can doubledown on this issue with Trump


2 posted on 01/18/2023 9:33:57 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: jfd1776

The documents may bear secret labels but may have been declassified.

The statute of limitations may have expired.

Biden might have been framed. There are evil people in DC.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 9:35:18 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: jfd1776

Biden may get off for the same reason as Pinochet.


4 posted on 01/18/2023 9:37:04 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: jfd1776

Joe has been a faithful puppet.

Kamala may be tougher to handle.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 9:40:09 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: joshua c

If they could have put Trump on trial, they would have.


6 posted on 01/18/2023 9:42:00 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: joshua c
classified documents are his own fault

Yes, but I am not confident anything will come of it.

7 posted on 01/18/2023 9:42:03 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: jfd1776
I like the piece, but I think there are too many holes in it.

Every observer knows that this usurper’s mental deterioration is proceeding at a fast clip. Every interaction with the press demonstrates that he is the textbook case of a 25th Amendment removal.

The problem here is that the Vice President has to initiate this removal. That means that Kamala Harris, who slept her way to the top to be the first woman Vice President, would provide the icing on the cake to then be the woman who slept her way to the top to then take out the boss and take his job.

Talk about a historic first for women!

The Constitution allows for the creation by Congress of a committee to determine the fitness of the President, but I can't see McCarthy agreeing to this because it can then be used against a future Republican President, once established. Pelosi floated this idea already to get rid of President Trump.

But the Democrats cannot allow such an impeachment to go forward; they simply must cut it off at the pass. Each such issue exposes the complicity of the entire modern Democratic Party. It is not Joe Biden alone who breaks the law, after all: it is Democrat Party policy to break the law. It has been for years.

The Democrats are so fixated on the identity politics of historic "firsts" that I can't believe that they would willingly accept the historic stain of being the party with the first President to actually be removed from office via impeachment.

If they can force Biden to resign due to this particular scandal, the rest of the Democratic Party is untouched

The Democrats would then create another historic first: the first "anchor baby" president who was a child of neither parent being an American citizen. We would have a "triple-citizenship" President, an Indian-Jamaican-American President.

Just imagine, the Democrats attacked Trump for alleged mishandling of documents, and now they might throw out their own sitting president for what looks to the layman like exactly the same crime. Wouldn’t that be a feather in their caps, making them look like the honorable party, making them look like heroes?

This assumes that the investigation stops cold right there. If the investigation into the nature of the documents continues, then the question turns to the Obama administration and how: 1) Joe came to take these documents amidst Obama's security regime, 2) what were these documents and how did they relate to Obama-Biden policy in Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom, 3) what did Obama know about what was disclosed in those documents, 4) was Obama involved in the leaking of Biden's possession of these documents, and 5) what else might Obama have been trying to hide by outing his former Vice President at this time?

It's not as clean a coup d'état as some might make it out to be, and it might be another Democrat Party first if they actually engineered and executed a coup to take out our sitting government.

And it would leave future voters to wonder what the Democrats might resort to next if the 2024 election doesn't go their way?

-PJ

8 posted on 01/18/2023 10:04:40 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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PJ, I am not disagreeing with you. I think perhaps you missed a couple of lines.

My thesis is that there are all these good, legitimate reasons to throw out, Joe Biden, but they aren’t going to happen, primarily because they would reflect so badly on Democrats. My thesis is, therefore that they settled on the document miss handling issue, because they believed that it would not reflect badly as Democrats, that it was their only way of getting rid of him without severe collateral damage across their party.

And then, in my final summation, I point out that the cadre who dreamed this up, did not anticipate how the documents would all reveal proof of the Biden family’s more severe crimes.

So yes, you and I are essentially in agreement. :-)

JFD


9 posted on 01/18/2023 10:10:39 PM PST by jfd1776 (John F. Di Leo, Illinois Review Columnist)
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To: jfd1776

Does anyone actually believe this?


10 posted on 01/18/2023 10:19:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: jfd1776
I agree, too.

I posted earlier that:


I've come to the conclusion that Biden's lawyers did the calculus and concluded that it was better for Biden to take the wrap on mishandling (and possibly destroying) classified documents than what would happen if the contents of those documents were revealed.
There are no good outcomes for Democrats here. Their best play is one that takes down Biden and damages President Trump as collateral damage. Trump is their White Whale and they would rather they both go down together than to let Trump politically live for another term.

That means that the Democrats are willing to:

  1. Let Harris become President, even if that tarnishes the image of "successful" women in business and politics.
  2. Totally corrupt the idea of Natural Born Citizens.
  3. Even the score on which party has Presidents who resigned from office.
  4. Gloss over how the first President who got 80 million votes was removed from office two years later.
  5. Open up 2024 for a Republican victory in the White House.
The question is whether or how they will parlay taking Biden out with taking President Trump out, too. They will have to reconcile the following:

  1. Mar-a-Lago was a secure facility that was previously inspected by the FBI and had Secret Service patrolling the grounds, Biden's properties had no security and was paid for by Chinese agents.
  2. President Trump had authority to declassify and take documents, Biden did not.
  3. The documents at Mar-a-Lago were alleged to be classified secrets but no mention of them has been made after they were taken, leading people to believe Trump's assertion that they were personal mementos. The nature of Biden's documents have not been disclosed and Biden has denied knowledge of them.
  4. The raid on Mar-a-Lago was timed to support the J6 committee final report before the mid-term elections, which ended up with nothing. Biden's document possession was covered up until two months after the mid-term elections.
  5. Call Merrick Garland's hand on prosecuting President Trump and condemning the Democrat party, or forcing Harris to fire Garland as she fashions her own Cabinet to start fresh and clears out Biden's dead wood.
It might turn out that removing Biden and installing Harris is the best thing that ever happened to Republicans. Harris can join the ranks of "do-nothing" Presidents who can't get anything passed the House. Republicans can stymie the Democrats until 2024, making Harris a shrill and babbling face of her party, and then parlay this into a Trump win in 2024 and a DeSantis win in 2028.

-PJ

11 posted on 01/18/2023 10:36:07 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nickcarraway

Does anyone actually believe this?

*************

Some most likely do.
They want to believe our political enemy is “going down” over documents.

However, I don’t buy it.

I think both Trump and Biden walk out of these NARA scandals with very small political scratches.


12 posted on 01/18/2023 10:40:00 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: jfd1776

Biden was not a millstone for democrats in 2022 and wont be in 2024 if he runs.

Deep state is not playing the same game, deep state is doing everything possible to protect Biden.

Article is pure propaganda.


13 posted on 01/18/2023 10:44:58 PM PST by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.Rinos)
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To: Brian Griffin

Or maybe Biden and Hunter were trading American secrets for cold hard cash with the Chinese...


14 posted on 01/18/2023 10:55:18 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I would suggest the arrival of Harris is simply a short-term piece of the action. Her VP pick would be Newsom. At some point, the rogue-crowd running things would arrange for vax ‘suddenly passing’ situation for Harris, and the key player (Newsom) would then reset the whole 2024 election cycle.


15 posted on 01/18/2023 10:57:46 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: jfd1776

Another possibility is that the DOJ and the democrats do nothing to Bidan. Showing the corruption of the DOJ and allowing Trump to clean house.


16 posted on 01/18/2023 11:51:20 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: jfd1776

There seems a tendency to attribute far too much individual agency to the Democrats in this article. While they are opportunists and willing to sell out the public interests for their own corrupt interests, they are not some monolithic actor playing three dimensional chess. They are a bunch of corrupt politicians trying to gain advantage just as many of the Republicans are.


17 posted on 01/19/2023 12:08:48 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: jfd1776

Biden is a pathological liar with the mind of a nine year old child who suffers no recriminations for his actions and never has in his 50 wasted years as a fourth rate politician.


18 posted on 01/19/2023 1:04:48 AM PST by chopperk
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To: jfd1776

It’s only an issue if the MSM deems it so. I’m not convinced the media has the motivation to destroy Biden, yet.

Although, Kamala Harris is eligible to begin her 10 year POTUS term as of January 20, 2023. All we can do is wait and see for now.


19 posted on 01/19/2023 2:58:42 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: Political Junkie Too

“Republicans can stymie the Democrats until 2024, making Harris a shrill and babbling face of her party, and then ****parlay this into a Trump win in 2024**** and a DeSantis win in 2028.”

That’s where you lost One Guy.

Has the Donkey party not mastered the art of stealing presidential elections?

If so, how does Kamala not rule for almost 10 years?


20 posted on 01/19/2023 3:09:06 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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