Posted on 10/13/2023 5:08:22 AM PDT by knarf
A relatively short video.
17 minutes
Oversight Chair Comer: “Biden’s classified document timeline was incomplete and mislead Congress.”
<><>he omitted months of communiques, planning, and coordinating among multiple WH officials,
<><>including Kathy Chung, U of Penn Biden Center employees, and Mr Biden’s personal attys
<><>the named retrieved the boxes containing Biden’s classified materials.
<><>Biden also omitted multiple visits from WH employees, and one or more unknown staffers.
<><>known WH’ers: Dana Remus, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams, Annie Tomasini (Hunter bestie).
Congress has now confirmed that Biden’s tax-paid aides knew as early as March 2021 that Mr Biden took and kept govt documents later determined to contain classified info:
<><>at his Delaware residence in his garage:
<><>and at his insecure U Penn think tank office in DC
<><>at the time his son Hunter was involved in global influence peddling schemes.
<><>selling access to govt policy was a lucrative Biden business.
Later – w/ the tax-paying public unaware of the Bidens predicament – the vengeful Biden WH -——desperate to divert attention from his and Hunter’s document criminality-—instructed the tax-paid Natl Archives to give the Biden FBI access to
<><> some 15 boxes of govt memos —some classified — belonging to that Pres Trump
<><>Biden ordered an unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s Fla home,
<><>the frantic Biden ramped up into a full-blown criminal probe of Trump, his 2024 opponent.
Thanks, Liz
y/v/w
An America Legal FOIA lawsuit against the Ntl Archives revealed then-VP Biden was an email junkie:
<><>19,335 emails with Hunter’s influence peddling company Rosemont Seneca
<><>4,243 emails with Hunter Biden himself
<><>1,751 emails with his brother Jim Biden
<><>3,738 emails with Jim Biden’s company Lion Hall Group
And here we thought Joe was spending his govt time:
<><>looking in the mirror
<><>getting groomed
<><>choosing one of his designer suits
<><>picking from his vast collection of Rolex watches
<><>calling 5 of his 6 grandchildren
<><>checking the price of Delaware real estate
<><>getting updates on ballot harvesting.
<><>trying on no-slip shoes.
Watch this thread . . . . no one is reading it.
I read it!
Didja’ click the link and hear/see it ?
foxnews.com
By Jessica Chasmar , Joe Schoffstall
Published January 12, 2023
Hunter Biden, China, classified documents: Mystery swirls around Penn Biden Center
Hunter Biden explored getting job at Penn Biden Center before it even existed
The U of Penn “Biden Center” lies at the heart of the latest Biden controversy but in some ways remains shrouded by mystery.
The White House revealed earlier this week that classified documents were discovered at the Washington, D.C., office for President Biden’s think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, in early November. On Wednesday, news broke that another trove of classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president had been discovered at another location, leading to louder calls for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the president’s handling of such documents.
The Biden Center has since found itself in the middle of a firestorm, leading to renewed questions on the likes of Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the think tank. Hunter Biden is also shown to have discussed the center in emails before its launch.
Within weeks of leaving the vice presidency under former President Barack Obama in January 2017, Biden became the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” at the University of Pennsylvania, an honorary position, and the “Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” was launched in Washington, D.C., the next year.
However, discussions about the elder Biden’s future involvement with Penn long predated the end of the Obama presidency, according to emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop, which have been verified by Fox News Digital.
pic——Joe Biden waving with his son, Hunter Biden
President Biden pictured here in August with Hunter Biden on Johns Island, South Carolina, has faced scrutiny over his handling of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
link——SEVERAL TOP WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WORKED FOR BIDEN AT HIS THINK TANK WHERE CLASSIFIED DOCS DISCOVERED
On April 25, 2016, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) agent Craig Gering emailed Hunter with “confidential notes from our meeting,” in which Gering listed apparent plans that were discussed for the vice president upon leaving office.
One of those plans included “wealth creation,” with no further explanation, and another included an apparent reference to the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., with a possible job opportunity for Hunter.
“The Biden Institute of Foreign Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,” Gering’s email read. “Focus on foreign policy. In addition to the institute at U of Penn, the school has an existing office in DC that will be expanded to house a DC office for VP Biden (and Mike, Hunter and Steve?). Operates like The Clinton Global Initiative without the money raise.”
Hunter then confirmed Gering’s notes but emphasized that they needed to be “very confidential” because they were not set in stone.
“Yes,” Hunter replied, “in theory that’s the way I would like to see it shake out-— BUT please keep this very confidential between us because nothing has been set in stone and there’s still a lot of sensitivity around all of this both internally and externally. He hasn’t made any decisions and this could all be changed overnight.”
pic-—Hunter Biden email
Hunter Biden confirms Craig Gering notes. (Fox News)
Just 10 days earlier, Hunter was scheduled to attend a meeting with his father and then-university President Amy Gutmann, according to an email of Hunter’s schedule from Rosemont Seneca Vice President Joan Mayer. It is not clear if the meeting at the White House actually took place, but it was scheduled almost exactly one year after Hunter and his then-wife Kathleen hosted Gutmann for a private dinner at Cafe Milano, a Georgetown institution in Washington D.C., according to an April 2015 email from a Penn official to Kathleen and Hunter. The guest list “comprised of Academy Members (significant donors), trustees, Overseers, and Penn parents” from UPenn, another email read.
screenshot——Hunter email
Joan Mayer email to Hunter Biden (Fox News)
Hunter’s lawyer and the White House did not respond to Fox News Digital inquiries on the matter.
Joe Biden left the vice presidency on Jan. 20, 2017, and was hired as a professor at Penn less four weeks after that, where he was paid a total of $776,527 in 2017 and 2018, which was nearly double what full-time Penn professors made during the same time, Philadelphia magazine reported in 2019.
The magazine reported at the time that the former vice president’s professorship was “really more of speaking residency,” and that “[h]e’s been on campus so infrequently that it becomes news when he actually is there,” which was a total of six times.
pic——Penn Biden Center
Former Vice president Joe Biden speaks at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium February 19, 2019, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Penn Biden Center had its official opening in February 2018, where Joe signaled he had spoken with Gutmann when he was still vice president about becoming a “professor” and being able to bring his own team with him to UPenn.
“President Gutmann, when you came to me before the [Obama] administration was up and asked me whether I [would] consider to be a professor at Penn, the first thought I had was that it sounded like an intriguing idea, but it became even more intriguing after the outcome of the [2016] election when you said I could bring along with me some serious, serious people,” Biden said during the opening ceremony in February 2018.
“Serious staff people and much more than staff, and they start with Tony Blinken and Steve Ricchetti and others, so thank you for allowing me to bring along some really, really bright people,” he added.
In 2019, Biden took an unpaid leave of absence from Penn after he announced his presidential campaign.
pic-—An office building housing the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, is seen in Washington, DC, January 10, 2023, following reports that classified documents from the time when US President Joe Biden was serving as Barack Obama’s vice president have been found at the center that Biden sometimes used as office space. - Lawyers for Biden discovered the documents last November while clearing out the office space and handed them over to the National Archives, which handles all such materials, Biden’s special counsel Richard Sauber said. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
pic——An office building housing the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, is seen in Washington, D.C., January 10, 2023, following reports that classified documents from the time when President Joe Biden was serving as Barack Obama’s vice president have been found at the center that Biden sometimes used as office space. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
As president, Biden selected Gutmann to be the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. David Cohen, the former chairman of Penn’s board of trustees who was also at the Penn Biden Center’s opening, was tapped by the president as the U.S. Ambassador to Canada.
pic-—Joe Biden and Amy Gutmann
Vice president Joe Biden launches his “Moon Shot” mission to cure cancer with a tour of the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and a roundtable conversation with researchers there on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. (Ed Hille/Philadelphia Inquirer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images.)
On Monday evening, the White House revealed that classified documents dating back to Biden’s time as vice president were discovered at the Penn Biden Center in November. The president’s personal attorneys then handed the documents over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
On Wednesday, Fox News confirmed that aides to Biden discovered at least one more batch of classified documents from his time as vice president in Biden’s possession. The news has prompted calls from Republican lawmakers for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents.
During the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City Tuesday night, Biden said he was “surprised” to learn that classified documents had been found at the Penn Biden Center.
“They did what they should have done. They immediately called the [National Archives] … turned them over to the Archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office,” Biden said. “But I don’t know what’s in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were.”
link——10 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT BIDEN’S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
The Penn Biden Center’s mission statement says it was founded on “the principle that a democratic, open, secure, tolerant, and interconnected world benefits all Americans,” and that it works to continue Biden’s fight “to secure American global leadership by defending and advancing a liberal international order.”
Fox News Digital previously reported that at least 10 senior Biden administration officials have been hired to their current or former positions after stints at the Penn Biden Center, including current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl and White House counselor Steven Richetti. Blinken and Richetti both served as managing directors while Kahl was a strategic consultant at the center.
Since the Penn Biden Center opened, the University of Pennsylvania has come under a microscope over its influx of foreign donations, particularly from China.
Penn took in roughly $77 million in gifts and contracts from China between 2014 and 2020, The Daily Pennsylvanian previously reported. Further, the Washington Free Beacon noted that foreign donations to the university tripled in the two years following the Biden Center’s opening in 2017, with most of the money coming from China.
Penn also struggled to explain a $3 million donation from 2019 from a Hong Kong shell company tied to Chinese national and businessman Xu Xeuqing. A university spokesperson previously said the donation came from Chinese national Xin Zhou, but the Free Beacon reported it could not identify a connection between Xin and Nice Famous Corporation Limited, where the gift originated.
The university also received at least $12.8 million in gifts from China between March 2020 and June 2022, according to a review of the Department of Education’s foreign gift reporting database. Additionally, the university reported at least $2.8 million in China contracts between July 2020 and January 2022.
“The Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity. In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center,” Penn’s vice president of communications Stephen MacCarthy told Fox News Digital in a statement.
MacCarthy said that since its inception, two American donors provided three unsolicited gifts totaling $1,100 for the Biden Center and that “one hundred percent” of the center’s budget is from university funds.
“Penn is fully compliant with federal law regarding the reporting of foreign gifts and contracts, as foreign gifts are all properly reported to the U.S. Department of Education as required by Section 117 of the Higher Education Act,” MacCarthy said.
Republicans want a special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of classified information after the two troves of documents were located this week. Garland has appointed John Lausch, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to review the matter.
The revelation that classified documents were found in Biden’s possession comes months after a similar situation related to former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. Following a months-long dispute between Trump and the Department of Justice, FBI agents executed a warrant for the search of the former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago to recover some 300 classified documents.
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Calm down. 7AM on a Friday? People are either still in bed, getting themselves and kids ready for work, or still doing morning chores.
Those who saw it over coffee cant take the time to listen and respond yet.
UPenn Can’t Explain Mystery Donation From Chinese Company
Money received after Biden Center think tank was established
Washington Free Bacon ^ | AUGUST 3, 2020 | Alana Goodman
Posted on 8/5/2020, 4:44:03 PM by Rebelbase
The University of Pennsylvania pocketed a $3 million donation last year from a mysterious Hong Kong shell company that is owned by a Shanghai businessman with deep ties to Chinese government officials.
The donation from Xu Xeuqing, who has no apparent connection to the University of Pennsylvania and was previously embroiled in a Shanghai public corruption scandal, raises questions about the true source of the money. Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Xeuqing has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
China has poured money into American universities in recent years, in part to buy influence on campuses, experts say. The donation comes as federal prosecutors have increased scrutiny on the Chinese government’s influence-buying and espionage operations at American universities.
“Unequivocally they’re using the money they’re providing the universities to garner influence there,” said Ben Freeman, the director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy. “It’s not the sole motive, but it’s one of a variety of motives.”
Foreign money has poured into the school over the past few years with a significant portion coming from China. The Ivy League school received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between March 2017 and the end of 2019; over the previous four year period, it took in just $19 million from Chinese donors.
The University of Pennsylvania received the $3 million in question from a Hong Kong-based company called “Nice Famous Corporation Limited,” according to financial disclosures.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
More Biden Crime Family corruption:
<><>SEC files lawsuit over healthcare business deal involving president’s brother Jim
<><>Did brother Jim Biden have access to classified WH documents for business deals?
This will sound sickeningly familiar...and I quote:
”A Biden campaign official said that VP candidate Joe Biden NEVER discussed Americore with his brother or expressed support for the business. The official said that Americore’s founder, purchased a ticket to a September 2017 fundraiser for the foundation of the perpetually resurrected, Beau Biden, an event attended by Joe Biden.”
“If the two interacted in any way, it would have been a handshake and nothing more,” the official said.
Rotflol.
Didja’ click the link and hear/see it ?
Uummmm, no I didn’t. It’s not new news to me. Proof perhaps, but not an unexpected revelation, and changes nothing about the day. Got work to do today.
People that get paid to do their jobs should do their jobs. But some won’t, so the Federal Biden Investigators are saying nothing.
Robert Gouveia is amazing. Have watch him for a long time on Rumble.
How he can keep all these inter connected events and relationships in his mind is almost unbelievable.
And he knows his way around the legal system.
Lies My President Told Me
Biden Says He Awarded Uncle A Purple Heart—But His Story Isn’t Possible
President Joe Biden appeared to make a major gaffe Friday when he claimed that after being elected vice president in 2008, he awarded his uncle, Frank Biden, a Purple Heart for his service in World War II, but there are some major holes in his story—primarily the fact his uncle died almost a decade before the 2008 election.
Biden recounted the story at a town hall event on veterans benefits on Friday, saying his father—Joe Biden Sr.—encouraged him some time after the 2008 election to give the Purple Heart to Frank Biden for his service during the Battle of the Bulge, claiming he deserved the medal but had never been awarded it.
The president’s father died in 2002; his uncle died in 1999.
Biden claimed his uncle told him, “I don’t want the damn thing,” when it was presented to him because many he served with did not survive the battle.
There doesn’t appear to be any record of Biden giving his uncle the honor—the president hasn’t mentioned the story in the past, there have been no news articles written about it and Frank Biden’s name does not appear on a list of recipients held by the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, though the list is incomplete.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment from Forbes.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“My dad—when I got elected vice president—he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge ... and he won the Purple Heart,’” Biden said.
KEY BACKGROUND
Biden made the comments while promoting the PACT Act, a bill he signed in August to expand healthcare benefits to veterans who became sick after exposure to toxic burn pits. The bill is one of several Biden has promoted to demonstrate the success of his administration, but this latest gaffe may serve as another worrying sign for Democrats leery of another Biden presidential run. Polls have repeatedly suggested many Democrats do not want Biden to run for reelection, such as a CNBC survey carried out late last month that found 57% of Democrats do not want him to run in 2024. The driving factor seems to be Biden’s age—he is the first person 80 or older to ever serve as president. If he wins reelection and serves out two full terms, he will depart office at age 86.
Biden has on multiple occasions incorrectly said his son, Beau, died in Iraq. Beau Biden died of brain cancer in the U.S. in 2015, 6 years after his desk job in Iraq. Yet the president says his son’s death with exposure to toxic burn pits during his service in Iraq and has even told Gold Star Mothers his son came home from Iraq in a flag-draped coffin.
This White House is the apex of a crime scenes thanks for exposing one has to wonder who hasn’t seen Biden’s classified papers.
Xi’s phone line busy at this time please call back later.
“Mystery swirls around Penn Biden Center”
Thank you for the text. Amazing. If only we knew exactly what the classified documents related to.
And again, ChiCom money.
NOW will you listen ?
Perhaps ?
Doc . . . do I have appendicitis, or is it perhaps just a belly ache ?
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