By Jeffrey A. Rendall
Exposure of Biden’s knowingly mishandling classified files should’ve caught more eyes
It’s safe to say, sometimes when a president leaves office, Americans are so thankful and relieved about the occurrence that they almost immediately stop talking about the man as though he were a distant memory and best left relegated to the past.
We couldn’t wait to see George W. Bush and Barack Obama head out of town. That’s equal bipartisan fairness for you, isn’t it?
After all, a president dominates the news so thoroughly during his tenure that there’s typically little energy remaining to devote to other, more personal and relevant public themes. Ask a bystander what he or she thinks about the state legislature and they may shrug and deflect the question, but almost everyone has an opinion about a president one way or the other.
Such was definitely the case for former president senile Joe Biden, a hypocritical and bumbling figure of a man whose corruption and incompetence was so pervasive and inescapable that not even his beloved Democrats dredged up his name very often.
Hunter Biden forfeited his art sales scam when daddy senile Joe left the DC swamp. Poor guy!
Democrats love fixating on Donald J. Trump. To paraphrase Cady Heron of Mean Girls movie fame, Democrats find themselves talking about Trump eighty-percent of the time and wait for others to bring him up again so they can gripe about him some more.
But Senile Joe Biden isn’t like Trump. Most Democrats likely consider Biden a historical irregularity they’d rather just say a nice thing or two about and then change the subject back to Trump. Unfortunately for Democrats, however, Biden’s aura crops up unannounced. Senile Joe’s corruption was so deep, it’s bubbled to the surface over and over like so many oil drips escaping from the shattered hull of the Battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
Senile Joe’s residual reappeared recently. It turns out that he lied – again – about not keeping classified documents in his control. In an article titled, “‘Biden knew’: Audio tapes reveal he talked of disclosing classified material for lucrative book deal”, Susan Ferrechio reported at The Washington Times recently:
“Former President Joseph R. Biden is heard on newly released tapes telling a ghostwriter that he had classified material and was sharing it for his 2017 memoir, for which he received an $8 million advance.
“Mr. Biden read classified notes ‘nearly verbatim’ to the writer, Mark Zwonitzer, for the book ‘Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose,’ which was published a year after Mr. Biden’s two terms as vice president ended and while he was contemplating a presidential run. The 70 hours of recordings released by the House Judiciary Committee this week reveal Mr. Biden acknowledging some of the material, which he removed while serving as vice president and during his time in the Senate, was top secret.
“’The next thing I have here is classified,’ Mr. Biden is heard saying to Mr. Zwonitzer during one of their interviews. On another recording, Mr. Biden, then a former vice president, told Mr. Zwonitzer, ‘Some of this may be classified, so be careful with it.’”
Senile Joe telling someone to be careful with classified material in his possession? That’s kind of like telling Hunter to be circumspect of the scum he bought crack from over the decades.
With Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance in the senate hearing room dominating the headlines of late, the news regarding Biden’s newest classified materials foibles was buried with other tangential blurbs last week. But Biden’s own words, caught on tape, proved that the former senator/vice president/would-be president understood that he’d removed classified information and treated it rather cavalierly in his daily dealings at the apex of government.
These little episodes probably wouldn’t carry much force if Democrats hadn’t gone so over-the-top in making a big stink about Trump purportedly (according to them) mishandling classified documents after his first term, then Biden’s deep state goons planting and doctoring evidence to make it look as though Trump had done something truly treasonous and criminal.
Remember the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago? The mental images of unfettered government agents rifling through the Trump family’s unmentionables haven’t dissipated. No wonder the president and first lady were so honked off about the aggressiveness of Senile Joe Biden’s “Justice” department. And then the old dolt claimed he didn’t know anything about the DOJ’s witch hunt.
None of this is surprising. Anyone who’s followed Biden’s career in politics knows he’s been truth challenged from the beginning, a man who’s probably gone farther than any other on such a limited intellect and values ethics. To know Joe Biden is to figure that if his lips are moving, he’s probably lying. The man simply doesn’t know how to tell the truth.
Or it could be he just doesn’t recognize what’s true. Remember his denials about his son’s connection to corruption in Ukraine and China? How about senile Joe suggesting that Antifa was an “idea” that doesn’t really exist except in Republicans’ imaginations?
Perhaps we could hold a contest to name senile Joe Biden’s most heinous fib? Somebody, somewhere, had to have compiled a book of Joe’s gross distortions. It’d probably read like St. Peter’s roster of sins situated near the Pearly Gates.
In the present instance, it’s not just that Biden possessed classified documents, he kept them in unsecured locations in his sphere of influence. Democrats make hay about Trump and “Russian interference”, but how many Russian (or Chinese or … name an American enemy here) spies were assigned to case Biden and figure how they might obtain security secrets?
This may be redundant, but any possible classified files Trump might have had were located in highly secured places protected by an army of Secret Service agents in addition to Trump’s own security personnel at his many properties. You don’t think Trump would make sure there wasn’t any unauthorized persons just roaming the halls at Mar-a-Lago?
I’m guessing Trump’s private residence would be just as secure as the White House. Maybe even more so.
For those requiring a refresher, classified files were found in a closet in Biden’s between-offices suite, at his personal residence in Delaware (in the garage, no less) and likely anywhere the mentally deteriorating Democrat buffoon spent appreciable time.
Files were stored in boxes next to Biden’s precious Corvette for God’s sake. Are you seriously claiming that the enemies weren’t aware of where that was?
The fact is, Biden treated the nation’s secrets like he did everything else in his half-century-long political career, as though he owned the world and didn’t care who’d correctly assessed his ego. He was arrogant and obtuse and counted on his party members to run interference for his personal carelessness. Senile Joe considered himself above the law, beyond official reproach.
The invisible Democrat shield protecting Biden disintegrated a little more than two years ago when several liberal party establishment notables panicked and figured the 2024 Democrat would-be nominee had to be replaced or risk losing to the hated Donald J. Trump. After Joe’s catastrophic failure during the June (2024) presidential debate, Democrats abandoned their illusions about their president’s wherewithal.
Democrats would probably prefer that senile Joe were treated like other presidents who’d just left office and were largely forgotten about within the span of a month or so.
Pursuing Biden’s misdeeds while in office is most likely fruitless at this point due in large part to the fact the former White House squatter probably couldn’t remember anything he did – or didn’t do – while he sat at the Resolute Desk. Or before. The man’s mind took an extended vacation long ago and he probably has trouble recalling what his favorite flavor of ice cream is at the snack stand at the shore now.
History should document how Biden handled his job and Americans need to know how Democrats continued to shelter him long after it became common knowledge that he was losing it. Events like the Biden classified document scandal and the autopen controversy should not be forgotten and tucked away simply because senile Joe merits sympathy for his deteriorated cognitive condition.
Further revelations of senile Joe Biden’s political corruption won’t necessarily impact Democrats as they struggle to define their party going forward, but Americans must be informed of how we were lied to during Biden’s time as president (and before). This is who the Democrats are – then talk about Biden and his deception a little more.
What did (senile Joe) know, and when did he know it? Bring it on.
Jeff Rendall is editor and publisher of GolfintheUSA.com and has written about golf and politics for over a quarter of a century. A non-practicing attorney from California, he moved to the east coast three decades ago to pursue and combine his interests in all things American history and culture. Jeff has worked as an intern on Capitol Hill and in various capacities in grassroots organizing and conservative organizations and publications, including a nearly two-decade stint at ConservativeHQ.com. Column republishing or other inquiries: Rendall@msn.com .