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House Oversight chair says China's donations to Penn Biden Center may have influenced administration
Just The News ^ | January 18, 2023 (Updated) | Madeleine Hubbard

Posted on 01/18/2023 7:04:05 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie

he House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday demanded the University of Pennsylvania release information about anonymous donations from China to the Penn Biden Center, where classified documents were found, over concerns the Chinese Communist Party may have influenced Biden administration policies through the contributions.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; chicoms; china; covid; penncenter; pennstate; treason
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What on earth was this?
1 posted on 01/18/2023 7:04:05 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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2 posted on 01/18/2023 7:05:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Why was Top Secret Compartmentalised information at the Penn Center for Chinese Influence?


3 posted on 01/18/2023 7:05:32 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Why didn’t they just issue a warrant and send in a SWAT team to get the documents??

Pencil neck already set the rules, SWAT RAID THEM


4 posted on 01/18/2023 7:06:54 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I had never heard of this Penn Biden Center “think tank” until the document fiasco. This outfit sounds like a CCP front to me.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 7:10:59 AM PST by Ebenezer ("Be strong and of good courage.")
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Way to hit the ground running, Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer! Let's hope this isn't a flash in the pan and they stick with it.
"The Committee has learned UPenn received millions of dollars from anonymous Chinese sources, with a marked uptick in donations when then-former Vice President Biden was announced as leading the Penn Biden Center initiative. Following the formation of the Penn Biden Center, donations originating from China tripled and continued while Joe Biden explored a potential run for President."
Coincidence? You decide.
6 posted on 01/18/2023 7:11:00 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: Red Badger

May have????

Republicans better start going for the throat with their new found power.


7 posted on 01/18/2023 7:11:22 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Red Badger

Considering how corrupt we now know the left is I strongly suspect they intend to remain in power indefinitely......and there’s only one way I can think of to ensure that.


8 posted on 01/18/2023 7:12:02 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

As a dogs hind leg....


9 posted on 01/18/2023 7:14:12 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

What’s the purpose of having classified documents at the Penn Biden Center? Exactly how often did Biden actually step foot in the Penn Biden Center? He has enough problems going to work at the White Hut since he is so frequently in Greenville or Rehoboth. Biden was locked down in his campaign bunker for nearly all of 2020. I’m willing to bet that Biden was only at the Penn Biden Center for its grand opening and a few select times to fund raise. Face it, Biden doesn’t work. He never had worked. He probably only sat behind his desk at the Penn Biden Center for a photo op to make it look like he was working.


10 posted on 01/18/2023 7:20:01 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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Not only the "Penn Biden Center"...
After his time as vice president, Biden became the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, the first to hold such a job. Over the first few years of holding this position, Biden earned more than $900,000 from the university for speaking at various events. According to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer, he “collected $371,159 in 2017 plus $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 for a vaguely defined role that involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events.
Another $1 million payoff to Biden for a no-show "job."

Then there is this...

Penn Biden Center where classified papers were found is a ‘dark-money nightmare’
By Isabel Vincent
January 11, 2023

“The Penn Biden Center is a dark-money, revolving-door nightmare where foreign competitors like China donated millions of dollars to the university so that they could have access to future high-ranking officials,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center.

The University of Pennsylvania raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.

Most of the anonymous donations came after the university officially announced in February 2017 that it would create the academic center named for Biden, whose term as vice president under Barack Obama had just ended. In addition to leading the think tank, Biden was named a professor at the school.

Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million, records show.

So he opens the Biden Center, gets the bogus "professorship" for a $1 million payoff, and the University collects almost $60 million from the Chinese.

From the above article, Penn isn't the only corrupt Northeast school: "Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million."

How many such Trump or Republican "Centers" are there collecting corrupt cash from our enemies?

11 posted on 01/18/2023 7:23:23 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: Ebenezer

Sounds like TREASON to me!


12 posted on 01/18/2023 7:26:14 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: ConservativeInPA

So, Biden was getting pay for play money from the Chinese. What was the function of the Biden Center? Did it have a legitimate function? Chinese influence spreading, I suppose. Was it used to track anti CCP US citizens of Chinese ethnicity?


13 posted on 01/18/2023 7:31:13 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: Jonny7797

I hope the Republicans will go for the throat, but since so many Republicans have been receiving money, they probably will pull a Romney (had Obama on the ropes after 2nd debate), and back off. Sadly, count on it. We have to expose Republican duplicity.


14 posted on 01/18/2023 7:33:47 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: milagro

Not to mention how all those Ivy League universities have sold their souls to the devil in more ways than one.


15 posted on 01/18/2023 7:48:34 AM PST by Ebenezer ("Be strong and of good courage.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Incredible!!! No investigative journalism going on anymore? Really criminal and unknown or if known, swept under the rug!


16 posted on 01/18/2023 7:50:07 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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May?

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-17-classified-biden-docs-contain-family-crime-misdeeds.html


17 posted on 01/18/2023 7:51:49 AM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: Ebenezer

“”I had never heard of this Penn Biden Center “think tank” until the document fiasco.””

Known only to the few who benefited from it, I suppose. Someone said this week, “we don’t know what we don’t know” relative to another news story and I guess we should count ourselves lucky! I’d feel myself lucky not to know about any of this corruption that takes place in DC - and of course, other places!


18 posted on 01/18/2023 7:53:29 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The harm is done.

Don’t impeach Biden.
Let this go.

Pass a new law stipulating 24-hour supervision —for a period that ends when he leaves office. Do not allow it to be renewed afterward.

Impeaching Biden would legitimize the prosecution of President Trump. It would distract congress from more critical work, like dismantling Obama’s police state. It could me Kamala assuming office. It would be an immense waste of time at best.

Leave him in place and let the dems own him. Just make sure he doesn’t ever happen again.


19 posted on 01/18/2023 7:54:48 AM PST by tsomer
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The "Penn Biden Center" sure presents itself as a credible, ultra-liberal "thinktank," but lying comes so easily and naturally to Biden that it's logical to think that the subterfuge is carried over to this "center" as well.

Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement

Nothing makes me laugh more than the use of "Biden" and "Think" in the same sentence. A close second is the use of "Biden" and "Diplomacy" in the same name. He is the lowest IQ person to ever be president. He's a corrupt, dirty, lying, filthy skunk with zero diplomatic skills.

20 posted on 01/18/2023 7:58:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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