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Penn Biden Center Where Classified Documents Were Found Is a 'Dark Money Nightmare'
2023-01-13
[PJMedia] When Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
rode off into the sunset at the end of his two terms as vice president, he needed something to occupy his time when he wasn’t playing on the Delaware beach. So he backed the formation of the Joe Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Known now as the Penn Biden Center, it’s not exactly clear what the center does or is supposed to do.

The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement hired Biden as an "honorary professor" from 2017-2019.
That explains why he keeps saying he was a professor.
He taught no classes, but his connection to the think tank certainly opened the spigot of donations to the university from one interested party: China.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) claims the college received $54.6 million in donations from China between 2014 through June 2019, including $23.1 million in 2016. "The Penn Biden Center is a dark money, revolving door nightmare where foreign competitors like China donated millions of dollars to the university so that they could have access to future high-ranking officials," said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center.

"The Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity," a front man for the University of Pennsylvania, Stephen MacCarthy, told the New York Post. "In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center. Since its inception in 2017, there have been three unsolicited gifts (from two donors) which combined total [sic] $1,100. Both donors are Americans. One hundred percent of the budget for the Penn Biden Center comes from university funds."

Yes, but what about "gifts" to the University? When you’re dealing with $54 million, are we really to believe that the school didn’t receive any suggestions on where that money should go?

"MacCarthy was very careful to say Penn ’never solicited any gifts’ to Penn Biden Center," NLPC counsel Paul Kamenar said. "It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to conclude that foreign funds are being directed to the Biden Center even if not solicited or earmarked for the Center."

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
the Penn Biden Center funneled a lot of talent into the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...


Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
former fellows and administrators of the Penn Biden Center now have key positions in the Biden administration.

Michael Carpenter, the former managing director of the Penn Biden Center, was named the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, based in Vienna, in 2021. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also briefly served as director of the think tank before joining the Biden administration in January 2021. Before that, Blinken was a policy advisor for President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......
’s 2020 campaign.

Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the center from April 2018 to September 2020, is currently special assistant to the president and the National Security Director for the Western Hemisphere at the White House, according to his LinkedIn page.

Interest in the doings of the Penn Biden Center predates the documents scandal. In 2016 when plans for the Center were being drawn up, Hunter Biden
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
discussed the project with advisors, including Creative Artists Agency (CAA) agent Craig Gering. An email from Gering in April 2016 was found on his abandoned laptop.

Fox News:

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.

At least ten senior administration officials have been hired after stints at the Penn Biden Center. And is it just a coincidence, as the Washington Free Beacon noted, that foreign donations to the university tripled in the two years following the Biden Center’s opening in 2017, with most of the money coming from China?

Something stinks in the Penn Biden Center. Perhaps Republicans in Congress can make the Center a particular point of interest in their investigations of the Biden administration.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Cut off all government funding and grants and see how private they are.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-13 20:57  

#7  Try width = 425 instead next time?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-01-13 13:33  

#6  Sorry. It looked OK in preview. I specified style="width:425;". Was that wrong?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-13 12:32  

#5  Unfortunately, U Penn is a private (and Ivy League) school.
Posted by: Tom   2023-01-13 12:30  

#4  I'm so damn sick and tired of hearing Putin, Putin, Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia when the Chinese are pulling shit like this. Putin is far too weak to have any impact on my life. Forget Putin and Russia. This is the enemy:

Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-13 12:30  

#3  Upping the ante: "Reports compiled by the conservative watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) from disclosures to the Department of Education showed that Penn collected more than $67.6 million in donations and contracts from China between 2013 and 2019."
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2023-01-13 07:28  

#2  PA gubbamint is R-dominated except for Gov, right? How about some investigative funding hearings into U of Penn?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-01-13 07:25  

#1  Whats that old political saying....
If the democrats are accusing you of doing something they are likely the ones doing it.

To our new (R) controlled House.
How about addressing the massive amounts of backdoor deals and $$$$$ floating into DC Swamp Pockets and place a moratorium on family related hires by donors - lobbyists and $$$$ from non-USA sources?

Posted by: NN2N1   2023-01-13 04:20  

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