Trump On The China Connection To Classified Documents Found At Biden’s Private Office – “How Much More Information Has China Been Given?”

Donald Trump took to Truth Social to tie the story of the classified document found at the Penn Biden center to China.

The amount was 54 Million Dollars that the Biden Think Tank received from China. That’s a lot of money. They saw the Classified Documents!

Wow! The Biden Think Tank is funded by CHINA!!! Also, a V.P. cannot Declassify documents, which are covered by the Federal Records Act, which is Criminal and MUCH TOUGHER than the Presidential Records Act, which is NOT Criminal. A President, me, can Declassify. How much more information has China been given? The Penn Biden Center is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.

Millions have been donated from China to the University of Pennsylvania. Between 2014 and 2019 $54.6 million went from China to the University – most of these donations came after the Biden Center was announced.

A government watchdog is demanding the US attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden.

The Ivy League college 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 announced in February 2017 that it would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Joe Biden, whose term as vice president had just ended, was to lead the center and was also named a professor at the university.

The Ivy League university received $15.8 million in anonymous Chinese gifts that year, including one eye-popping $14.5 million donation in May 2018, records show. Did China see these documents?

Penn Biden Center housed classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president, DOJ finds

By Vidya Pandiaraju, the Daily Pennsylvanian, 01/09/23 10:38pm

pic-—The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a University think tank located in Washington, D.C. Credit: William Snow

The Department of Justice is reviewing classified documents that were found at Penn’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a University think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Attorney General Merrick Garland called into review around 10 documents from President Joe Biden’s term as vice president, CBS News reported Monday. The documents — which were found in Biden’s office in the center — were discovered on Nov. 2, 2022 by Biden’s personal attorneys before being turned into the National Archives and Records Administration, according to a statement from the White House.

Richard Sauber, who serves as Biden’s special counsel, wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian in a statement that the materials were found on Nov. 2, 2022, while preparing to “vacate office space” belonging to Biden in the center. The contents of the classified documents, as well as their level of classification, remain unknown —though CBS News reported that they are not nuclear secrets.

The classified materials consisted of documents on foreign countries, including on Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom, though the majority of discovered items contained Biden family documents, CNN reported.

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University spokesperson Ron Ozio referred the DP to the National Archives and the White House in response to a request for comment. The National Archives declined to comment, and the Penn Biden Center did not respond to an inquiry by the time of publication.

The Presidential Records Act requires federal officeholders to turn over legal documents as well as classified records at the end of their government service, according to CBS News. It is unclear why the records remained in a private facility after former President Barack Obama’s term.

Sauber wrote in his statement that “[the] President periodically used [the Penn Biden Center] from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign.”

He went on to write that the White House has cooperated with the National Archives and the Department of Justice since the documents were discovered. He added that the documents were found by the president’s attorneys, and that they have cooperated with the National Archives and Department of Justice to make sure that all Obama-Biden Administration records are in the “[appropriate] possession of the Archives.”

Garland has assigned John Lausch, United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to identify how the documents ended up at the center, according to The Washington Post. The review will serve as a preliminary step which will be followed by further investigation, should Garland deem it necessary.

According to CBS News, Biden is reported to have found out about these documents in November. CBS also reported that familiar sources said that he is unaware of the content of the documents.

The Department of Justice is also reviewing 1968 Wharton graduate and former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified official documents. The FBI conducted a court-approved search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in August of 2022, where about 100 classified documents were seized.

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The Penn Biden Center — which Biden used as his main office when he was in Washington — officially opened in February of 2018 as a hub for diplomacy and a representation of Biden’s ties to the University.

Under the title “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor,” Biden held joint appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, with a secondary affiliation in the Wharton School starting in February of 2017. Biden left Penn in 2019 to pursue the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

Apart from serving as an office for Biden, the Penn Biden Center — which is part of Penn Global — has employed interns participating in the Penn in Washington program and hosted political science courses offered by Penn. The center currently lists no staff on its website, and Penn community members have expressed visions for the center’s future since Biden’s ascent to the presidency.

After Joe’s prez election win, Penn Biden Center
face s calls to become a public policy hub

By Pia Singh, the daily Pennsylvanians, 11/29/20 11:50pm

pic....The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, D.C., will continue to operate as part of Penn Global. Credit: Chase Sutton

Now that Joe Biden, a former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice, is president-elect of the United States, there is renewed speculation on how the transition could impact the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and those who work there.

The president-elect has already tapped into the Biden Center to choose his White House administration. Steve Ricchetti, who briefly served as managing director of Penn Biden Center in early 2019, has now been appointed as Biden’s counselor, a position that typically allows wide access to the president. Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State also served as the center’s managing director before leaving in 2019 to work on the presidential campaign.

The Penn Biden Center will continue to operate as part of Penn Global, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Biden took an unpaid leave of absence from the center in April 2019 after he announced his candidacy for president.

Established in 2018, the Penn Biden Center, based in Washington D.C., was always intended to continue long after Biden left. Now, former student interns and professors are hoping the Biden Center continues to expand and grow into a formal space for those interested in public policy careers.

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“The center is a big beautiful building,” William Snow, 2019 College graduate and former DP Senior Sports Editor, said. “I think Joe Biden called it the most expensive real estate in D.C. He was really adamant about picking it because it is a short walk from Union Station, where the Amtrak stops. And obviously that’s what he’s famous for.”

Biden, who estimates he has traveled over 2 million miles aboard 16,000 Amtrak trains, is widely known for his support of the rail agency.

Snow interned at the Biden Center from January to May of 2018 as part of the Penn in Washington program, which selects a small cohort of undergraduate students interested in public policy to live, take courses, and intern in D.C. during one of their semesters at Penn.

While he was an intern, Snow said about 15 people worked regularly out of the Biden Center, including a few interns and Biden’s own senior staff in foreign policy. Snow spent the semester doing social media management, communications work, and research for speeches that would go directly to Biden’s office. He also worked with senior staff like Blinken and Carlyn Reichel, who was Biden’s foreign policy speechwriter.

“It was a really, almost sacred experience working with such a high power group of people, and I felt very lucky to be in such a privileged position,” Snow said.

In early 2018, Snow said Biden was “settled into the Center” and doing a lot of international travel and talking to foreign leaders. The former vice president wrapped up his book tour to promote Promise Me, Dad, that June, and announced his candidacy for president a little under a year later in April 2019.

Credit: Danny Donoso Kugler Snow interned at the Biden Center as part of the Penn in Washington program.
Snow, who now works in the antitrust division of the Justice Department, said the program helped him find his footing in Washington, get to know how government works, and learn about what kinds of related positions are available for recent college graduates.

“I hope that they continue to keep the connection that they have with Biden and senior staff who have since left the Center but obviously are very much still a part of that worldview and mission and general space,” Snow said.

2020 College graduate and former DP Opinion columnist Lucy Hu, who interned for the Biden Center from May to July of 2018, said she would like the Center to hire more scholars that have worked in foreign policy.

“The Center is a budding foreign policy think tank,” Hu said. “I really would like to see it move more in that direction and hire more staff who is experienced either in the White House or in other foreign policy positions.”

Hiring new scholars with experience in the foreign policy field will not only provide a great experience for Biden Center interns, she believes, but will also advance the Center as an established academic institution.

As an intern, Hu said she completed many research-based tasks for Biden Center staff, such as assisting them in writing op-eds. She also did research for Biden’s briefings for various trips and speeches. While intern supervisors like Reichel were at the Center every day, Hu said she met Biden himself about three times that summer.

Political science professor and co-director of the Lauder Institute Julia Lynch, who previously served as the faculty director of Penn in Washington, hopes that the Biden Center can become a home for people at Penn who are more broadly interested in public policy. She added that Penn is “really unusual” in that it does not have any kind of public policy school.

Penn’s peer universities, such as Princeton University, Brown University, Harvard University, and Columbia University, each have separate schools and programs focused on public policy and international affairs.

“I think it would be wonderful for the Penn Biden Center to really be a focal point at Penn and in D.C. for people who are interested in either public policy internships or doing research on public policy,” Lynch said, adding that faculty and graduate students interested in related research areas should be able to use the Center as a meeting point and resource center.

There is a huge amount of interest in public policy among Penn students, Lynch said. Enrolling about 200 students, PSCI 236: Public Policy Process is the largest undergraduate lecture taught in the Political Science department. Subsequent classes that offer content material related to public policy are also really popular, Lynch added.

“There’s just a huge demand for this stuff and there’s really no kind of physical or psychological center to a lot of this stuff because we don’t have a school of public policy,” Lynch said.

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Programs such as the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative and the Social Science and Policy Forum, which was for faculty members and Ph.D. students in the School of Arts and Sciences, no longer exist. There continues to be a high demand from students who are interested in public policy internships and having networking opportunities with other Penn students and alumni in the field, Lynch said, adding that the Penn in Washington program is limited in its capacity to facilitate that interaction.

As Biden’s White House transition begins, it still remains unclear exactly how the new presidency will shape the Center’s future.

“I just hope that the Center stays relevant at bare minimum, beyond the time that Biden was there. And I hope that they produce some really good scholarship,” Snow said.

04/28/19

Candidate Joe’s leaving Penn for now.
But the Biden Center isn’t going anywhere.

By Grant Bianco,the daily Pennsylvanian, 04/28/19 9:05pm

With Penn professor Joe Biden taking a leave of absence to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Penn Biden Center officials said the center isn’t going anywhere.

Penn Biden Center and University officials said the center, which opened in February 2018, will continue to operate and maintain the same “mission” while the former vice president is on the campaign trail. Biden Center officials declined to comment on whether any of the center’s operations would change in light of Biden’s announcement.

“Our focus will not change — the Penn Biden Center will continue to advance the values that have formed the core of our mission since we opened: standing up for democratic principles, promoting peace and shared security, and defending universal human rights,” Biden Center Director of Communications Carlyn Reichel wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“We will remain active in shaping the debate around important foreign policy issues and fostering a new generation of leaders,” Reichel added.

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When asked to elaborate on how the center’s operations would change with Biden’s campaign, Reichel referred the DP to a statement released by the organization.

Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community Thursday that Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Biden “will be taking an unpaid leave of absence from his work at the Penn Biden Center” throughout his campaign.

“The Penn Biden Center provides Penn with a highly visible and important presence in Washington, D.C.,” Gutmann’s email read. “It will continue to function as an integral component of the University’s global strategy to bring the world to Penn and Penn to the world.”

Credit: Sharon Lee
When asked for additional comment following the vice president’s announcement, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy referred the DP to Gutmann’s statement and declined to comment further.

Biden’s leave of absence will also apply to his role as a Presidential Practice Professor and all of his affiliations with the University, Reichel wrote.

The names of Biden’s leadership team at the Biden Center also did not appear on a list of Biden’s senior campaign staff that the campaign announced. Reichel declined to comment on whether any of Biden’s top aides at the center would be working on his campaign.

In March, The Hill reported that Biden Center Managing Director Steve Richetti, a long-time Biden adviser, has been making calls on behalf of the vice president in a bid to secure endorsements for the campaign, but his name did not appear on the senior campaign staff list.

Reichel also wrote that the center would continue to offer the same opportunities to Penn students, such as internships and policy roundtables.

“The Penn Biden Center also looks forward to hosting its second career day for Penn students interning in Washington, DC, over the summer,” Reichel wrote.

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Gutmann’s email on Thursday marked a shift from the University’s previous silence about Biden’s political prospects.

“We are not commenting on anything regarding Vice President Biden unless or until he were to make an announcement regarding his plans,” MacCarthy wrote in an email to the DP in March.

Biden was last on campus in early April to participate in a discussion on the opioid crisis, and he has had strong ties to Penn ever since he was unveiled as a professor in 2017. Biden’s frequent events on campus dealt with everything from immigration reform to foreign policy in front of sold-out crowds. Biden also participated in a voter registration initiative hosted by student groups in September 2018.

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