CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY AUGUST 31, 2023
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN WASHINGTON IS WITHHOLDING MORE THAN 5,000 WHITE HOUSE EMAILS THAT USED ALIASES FOR THEN VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, REPORTS THE WASHINGTON TIMES. THE ARCHIVES SAYS IT IS WAITING FOR PERMISSION FROM BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA TO RELEASE THEM TO THE PUBLIC.
THE TIMES REPORTS THAT BIDEN USED AT LEAST THREE ALIASES WHILE SERVING AS VP. SOME OF THE EMAILS COPY HUNTER BIDEN, INCLUDING A SCHEDULING EMAIL ABOUT A MAY 2016 CALL BETWEEN THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THEN UKRANIAN PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO. HUNTER WAS SERVING ON THE BOARD OF A UKRANIAN ENERGY COMPANY AT THE TIME FOR WHICH HE HAD NO EXPERIENCE, BUT WAS RAKING IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS A MONTH.
WAS THIS INFLUENCE PEDDLING? DID IT VIOLATE THE FOREIGN AGENT ACT THAT PROHIBITS UNREGISTERED LOBBYISTS FROM WORKING WITH AND TAKING MONEY FROM FOREIGN ENTITIES IF THEY ARE NOT PROPERLY REGISTERED. IT WOULD SEEM SO.
WE WON’T KNOW MORE UNTIL AND UNLESS THOSE EMAILS ARE RELEASED. HILLARY CLINTON DESTROYED HERS AND PAID NO PRICE. WILL THE BIDEN EMAILS SUFFER THE SAME FATE? I’M CAL THOMAS. THAT’S MY COMMENTARY ON WMAL.
It is common practice for the Archives to receive permission before releasing these documents? It is hard ti imagine them showing the same courtesy to Trump.