Documents Inquiry Puts Spotlight on Biden's Frenetic Last Days as Vice President

The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | January 15, 2023 | By Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON — Those last days were a blur of phone calls, meetings, farewell events, and visits to Ukraine and Switzerland. As he wrapped up his tenure as vice president in January 2017, Joe Biden was packing in as much as he could.

The question now is: What else was being packed? And by whom? And why? And where was it going?

The appointment of a special counsel has focused new attention on Biden’s frenetic final stretch in the White House after eight years as the No. 2 to President Barack Obama. Somehow, a small number of classified documents would go not to the archives, where they belonged, but to Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and, later, a private office in Washington, where they did not.

With Biden back in the White House, he finds himself struggling to explain what happened. His administration kept the discovery of sensitive records secret from the public for two months until media reports revealed it, and has had to update its version of events multiple times over the past week.

Within the final week or so, he was surprised with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama. He spoke by phone with leaders from Iraq, Kosovo and Japan. And he embarked on a last overseas trip, first to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with then-President Petro Poroshenko, and from there to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of business and political titans, where he met with Serbian and Kurdish leaders.

All the while, papers in Washington were being sorted and packed. The hours were short, the unbreakable deadline approaching. On that last day, Biden attended Trump’s inauguration, then headed to Union Station for a train trip back to Delaware. And boxes of documents were shipped to their destinations.

[Regulator]

It’s all an innocent mistake. He’s just too busy to keep track.

The truth is that the SOB steals classified information to figure out how he and his kid can put the bite on some corporation or government to make another few million.

[Steely Tom]

What else was being packed? And by whom?

Couldn't have been Joe Biden.

Maybe it was Trump! Could've happened! Let's look more closely at that.

[PubliusMM]

So...his busy schedule is the new excuse?
I believe that bears a very strong resemblance to a steaming pile of bovine excrement.

[EBH]

fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.

[StAnDeliver]

F Baker and Shear at the NYET. They're trying to run a Mockingbird script. "He never touched them he had no idea look at him he's an imbecile do you want mean tweets back?"

"What else was being packed? And by whom?"

Pull this leg it plays jingle bells.

[hanamizu]

All the while, papers in Washington were being sorted and packed... And boxes of documents were shipped to their destinations.

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Note the use of the passive voice. Biden was just overwhelmed by things/events/awards during his last days as VP. Obviously, he can’t be blamed for anything.

/s

[mikey_hates_everything]

Those last days were a blur of phone calls, meetings, farewell events, and visits to Ukraine and Switzerland.

Is the New York Times really that obtuse?

[Savage Rider]

Like the deadline isn’t the same with every new President. Total slimy suckups.

[chopperk]

Impeach the fool.

[Magic Fingers]

And having no prior experience in government, he had no idea how any of this stuff worked. /s

[God luvs America]

Remember when Yahoo and the NY Slimes made these types of excuses for President Trump? Yeh- neither do i.

[Fido969]

Amazing how the entire MSM lined up to defend the guy.

[Jeff Chandler]

Okay then. Now we have the talking point tens of millions of American voters will regurgitate.

[Fido969]

And... we have a winner.

[ConservativeInPA]

Those last days were a blur of phone calls, meetings, farewell events, and visits to Ukraine and Switzerland.

How much money did Biden pick up in Ukraine and from whom? Which Swiss bank or banks did Biden deposit the money?

[StAnDeliver]

"Frenetic days"???

Did Old Joe not realize Trump had won LOFL? One would presume so as he presided over J6 affirming Trump.

Such livid horseshit.

"No evidence has emerged publicly to indicate that he knew they had been taken improperly. If the vice president did not personally remove them when he left the White House, Hur will no doubt try to determine which aides were involved in packing his papers."

Biden's the goddamn Respondeat superior you mfr's. And unlike Trump, he didn't have the power to declassify, and your cutout Chung didn't have the clearance to handle ANY OF THEM -- that's what you know, and that's what's keeping the NYET up at night.

[j.havenfarm]

Oh. Ok. Joe was too busy spreading a final round of wisdom around the globe. Well, per the news reports, with at least some of these marked classified documents, they were put in an outer envelope marked “personal and confidential” or something like that. The person(s) who did that, then packed them for shipment is dead to rights for violation of the Espionage Act. It’s a limited universe of people. Let’s see them put in prison.

[Round Earther]

Biden, no matter who packed and moved the classified documents, is 100 percent responsible for each classified document found at his home or office.

Possession of each classified document in a felony and each felony is a prison sentence.

[oldguy1776]

“Now we have the talking point tens of millions of American voters will regurgitate”.

Since most Americans don’t really follow politics at the level some here do why would you think anything different?? They frankly don’t pay attention to politics until an election year. By then this whole thing will be old news. The average attention span for this stuff might be 90 days...then we will move on to the next “crisis”....whatever or whomever that might be.