John Solomon: Classified documents discovery turns the tables on Joe Biden
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Journalist John Solomon claimed that the delayed disclosure that classified documents were found in an office that used to be occupied by President Joe Biden has turned the political and legal tables on Biden, in an op-ed published Tuesday.
Solomon, the editor-in-chief and founder of Just The News, said that the classified documents that allegedly came from the Obama-Biden administration have raised “troubling new questions,” including whether there are additional documents missing from when Biden was the vice president, whether the delay in relaying the information to the public was for political reasons, and whether any foreign powers had access to the files.
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“The latter question took on added significance Monday night because it has been known for years that the University of Pennsylvania received extensive Chinese funding — estimated in some media reports at $54 million — around and after the time Biden announced his policy think tank was going to be part of the university’s Washington program,” Solomon wrote.
At least 10 classified documents were discovered at an office in the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C., in November. The office was used by Biden from 2017 until 2019, when he launched his presidential campaign.
Solomon additionally pointed out that United States Attorney General Merrick Garland knew of Biden’s documents before he announced the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate former President Donald Trump’s handling of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 18. Garland and the Justice Department were informed of Biden’s documents on Nov. 2, 2022.
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The Justice Department has since launched an investigation into the documents, which allegedly came from Biden when he was the vice president. Under the Presidential Records Act, all presidential and vice presidential documents must be relinquished to the National Archives. Biden’s special counsel Richard Sauber said that the president’s attorneys have fully cooperated with the National Archives and Justice Department since the discovery.
It is not clear what level of classification the documents found in the Penn Biden center have been marked, but they do not contain nuclear secrets, according to CBS News.