"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.
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.
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."
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.
Penn took in roughly $77 million in gifts and contracts from China between 2014 and 2020.....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." FOX
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