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On Classified Documents, Joe Biden Is Out Of Excuses: His entire narrative fell apart in only a week.
The Federalist ^
| 01/12/2023
| David Harsanyi
Posted on 01/12/2023 8:50:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Every president probably stashes away classified documents. The chances of any president being successfully prosecuted for pilfering them are infinitesimal. Nevertheless, now that we’ve learned Joe Biden has engaged in the same behavior as Donald Trump — perhaps worse, considering vice presidents are afforded less leeway on classified documents — precedent and transparency, our very democracy, demand Attorney General Merrick Garland name a special counsel to investigate (I get results!)
Right now, none of the rationalizations offered by the media for Biden’s actions over the past few days are operational. When the story first broke, outlets stressed that one of the vital “distinctions” between the two incidents was that Biden was in possession of fewer documents than Trump. Biden aides, we learned, had been utterly shocked to discover only a “small number” of classified documents “locked” in the personal offices of the president’s “think tank” — as if the location or the number of documents, or the alleged lock, rather than the contents, were the most newsworthy aspect of the story.
Today, we learned that a second “batch” of classified documents was uncovered at an “undisclosed” location. Suddenly, everything got incredibly vague. Biden aides, we are told, began diligently rummaging through boxes to ensure they were in complete compliance with the law. A completely independent source told collusion-hoaxer Ken Dilanian that the “search was described as exhaustive, with the goal of getting a full accounting of all classified documents that may have inadvertently been packed in boxes when Biden cleared out of the vice president’s office space in January 2017.” It’s heartening to know that the Bidens are such diligent, law-abiding folk.
Yesterday, we were told that classified documents that are found in a serious office setting, rather than just “lying around” in a home, was an important difference between the two cases. Today, Biden’s lawyer says that “small number” of classified documents was also found “locked” in Biden’s garage and an “adjacent” room of his Wilmington home. (Don’t worry, the president assures us it was safely stored next to his beloved Corvette.) You know, if we find another “small number” of documents, we might just have ourselves a full cache.
No doubt, journalists are super curious to know how those classified documents got into Joe’s garage. I mean, the guy had a think tank office at his disposal in D.C. Moreover, the initial documents were alleged to have been discovered before midterms, and yet we’re only hearing about new ones months later — and in convenient dribs and drabs.
Soon after CBS’s initial story, a four-byline puff piece from CNN reported that the documents found in the think tank were related to Ukraine, Iran, and the U.K., so not just keepsakes and letters and such. This week we also learned, in another soft-peddled report by The New York Times, that Biden, despite his insistence that he knew nothing about his son Hunter’s foreign entanglements, had met with a liaison from the Ukrainian energy interest Burisma, among many other revelations. Recall, Obama officials had also raised concerns about the Biden family business. Is there any chance those Ukrainian documents would have been embarrassing to the president? Seems a reasonable question.
What’s important now, we’re going to be instructed, is that Biden “immediately” contacted the authorities and is fully “cooperating.” Is it possible, and I’m just theorizing here, that Biden and his aides are lying? For one thing, cooperating is fine, but it’s not everything. Trump has every right to hire a lawyer and fight the Archives over documents. Maybe he’s got a case, maybe he doesn’t. But perhaps Biden also simply picked an opportune time to cooperate with his own administration in an effort to avoid any transparency. Far from “immediately” handing over this material, the president’s been in possession of classified documents for nearly seven years. How does the DOJ know there aren’t more documents stashed away? How does it know Biden, like Trump, didn’t put them in his garage on purpose? Because he says so?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s entertaining watching the comically obvious attempts to mitigate the damage. But if Biden hasn’t done anything wrong, he has absolutely nothing to fear.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books—the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. He has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News and radio talk shows across the country. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201701; biden; bidensgarage; bidensresidence; chriswray; classified; classifieddocs; corvette; documents; garage; iran; uk; ukraine
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To: SeekAndFind
Use that bagpipe-playing guy.
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posted on
01/13/2023 6:30:49 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: blueplum
“Maybe they should check Jill’s Rehoboth Beach home next?”
As well as the ccp headquarters where copies of these classified documents ended up in exchange for the big guys financial gains. (Tax free I might also add)
To: Sequoyah101
“Too easy. There is a fix in.”
Yes. This secures the Hunter laptop and Chinese and Ukrainian payoff scandal from House and public investigations for years and years to come.
To: SeekAndFind
But if Biden hasn’t done anything wrong, he has absolutely nothing to fear.Where did a guy making 200k/year get the money to buy 5-10 million dollar beach vacation homes?
44
posted on
01/13/2023 6:52:15 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: RoosterRedux
Were these docs hidden for a reason or were they just misplaced (doubtful)? What would they have disclosed if they had not been hidden? Hey that mental giant Hank Johnson - the one who was worried about Guam tipping over - said that the Biden docs were probably planted.
45
posted on
01/13/2023 7:30:36 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
To: 1Old Pro
Where did a guy making 200k/year get the money to buy 5-10 million dollar beach vacation homes? The same way Hillary! made a fortune in cattle futures...
46
posted on
01/13/2023 7:31:48 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
To: SeekAndFind
He stole the files he needs to be treated as such he’s a felon and nobody has a treason count on him yet.
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posted on
01/13/2023 8:38:58 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(LAWYERS )
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
48
posted on
01/13/2023 8:50:31 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/13/2023 8:55:50 AM PST
by
GotMojo
( )
To: SeekAndFind
Soon after CBS’s initial story, a four-byline puff piece from CNN reported that the documents found in the think tank were related to Ukraine, Iran, and the U.K., so not just keepsakes and letters and such. This week we also learned, in another soft-peddled report by The New York Times, that Biden, despite his insistence that he knew nothing about his son Hunter’s foreign entanglements, had met with a liaison from the Ukrainian energy interest Burisma, among many other revelations. Recall, Obama officials had also raised concerns about the Biden family business. Is there any chance those Ukrainian documents would have been embarrassing to the president? Seems a reasonable question. What’s important now, we’re going to be instructed, is that Biden “immediately” contacted the authorities and is fully “cooperating.” Is it possible, and I’m just theorizing here, that Biden and his aides are lying?Someone needs to send this over to Morning Joe, Mika, and the sycophants...
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posted on
01/13/2023 10:31:44 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
To: SeekAndFind
The suspicious timing: When someone actually looked.
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posted on
01/13/2023 11:23:00 AM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: All
University of Penn that housed Biden center pressed
to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations
1/12/2023, 11:38:38 AM · by george76 · 14 replies
Just the News. ^ | January 12, 2023 | John Solomon and Nick Givas
University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it. ...
The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of...
UPDATE....... AFTER THE CHINESE TAINT SURFACED, PENN SUDDENLY GAVE AWAY $100 MILLION TO PA PUBLIC SCHOOLS....
WAS THIS DIRTY CHINESE MONEY PENN DESPERATELY NEEDED OFF THE BOOKS TO SAVE. BIDENS FILTHY *SS?
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posted on
01/13/2023 12:12:33 PM PST
by
Liz
(Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voiceenn of the people is the voice of God)
To: frank ballenger; All
Yup found in the Toilet side mag rack, in with Jill’s copies of Cosmopolitan, some of their pets’ chew toys, AARP magazines, and pamphlets from Dementia support groups.
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posted on
01/13/2023 12:21:09 PM PST
by
mdmathis6
(A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
To: mdmathis6
LOL.
Putting your tiny secret video camera in his John was sort of questionable but you got the facts for us.
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posted on
01/13/2023 2:09:21 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
"Right now, none of the rationalizations offered by the media for Biden’s actions over the past few days are operational. When the story first broke, outlets stressed that one of the vital “distinctions” between the two incidents was that Biden was in possession of fewer documents than Trump. Biden aides, we learned, had been utterly shocked to discover only a “small number” of classified documents “locked” in the personal offices of the president’s “think tank” — as if the location or the number of documents, or the alleged lock, rather than the contents, were the most newsworthy aspect of the story." If Biden's mishandling of documents had been known since Nov. 3, yeah yeah, we all get why it was covered up for election day. Who did the covering up? well, duh.
So the question really is, who decided to drop this timing-wise into the lap of the newly-installed GOP Congress?
It smells like someone who scripts this f-----g garbage, and it stinks like someone who understands that the #MSM #Narrative simple-mindedly pillorying Biden for his activity, means its ok to continue prosecuting President Trump for the same thing, and it isn't, and it's not, especially when the VP has no ability to declassify.
That's why the bullshit timing of a release of government info/invest 2 months after-the-fact, should have everyone asking wtf.
Xiden's controllers have calculated that beefing about a nebulous NARA document charge, is a complete and utter dead-end for the GOP, when they were expecting to use this timeframe to roll out the Hunter Biden charges: Chinese espionage-for-pay, Ukraine quid-pro-quo, 10% for "The Big Guy", and as the impetus, Biden directly suborning/ordering Hunter's repeated failure to register for the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and Hunter's failure to report that income under same.
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posted on
01/13/2023 3:52:50 PM PST
by
StAnDeliver
(Tanned, rested, and ready.)
To: COBOL2Java
"Hey that mental giant Hank Johnson - the one who was worried about Guam tipping over - said that the Biden docs were probably planted."What really sucks is that Rupert Murdoch, in his prime, would have sent a black reporter straight to shank's door, and punch down on Johnson until he lost his poop. Not saying Murdoch would have done it for 'conservative values', but for the gratification of embarrassing the feral.
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posted on
01/13/2023 4:00:56 PM PST
by
StAnDeliver
(Tanned, rested, and ready.)
To: SeekAndFind
In typical fashion, the newsmedia took on the role of prosecutor when Trump possessed documents, and they acted as defense attorney when documents were found in Biden’s possession.
To: frank ballenger
Hey.....just taking one for the team! LOL!
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posted on
01/13/2023 4:38:09 PM PST
by
mdmathis6
(A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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