Sloppy Joe
Anyone who has ever had this classic American sandwich knows that you have to be careful when you eat one or you’ll be wearing it. If you pick one up, it’s a good idea to have it wrapped in a napkin or you can opt for the knife and fork method of consumption. In the case of our current President he has neither a napkin nor utensils, thus making a mess that earns him the metaphoric title, Sloppy Joe.
Six years ago as Joe transitioned to civilian life after 8 unspectacular years as Vice President under Barack Obama, he took some classified documents that belonged to the administration for unknown reasons. The documents in question have so far been found in three separate and unsecured locations, the Penn Biden Center, (his Washington D.C. think tank), the library in his Delaware home, and the home’s garage where his mid-life crisis 1968 Corvette is stored. Everyone knows there is a no less secure place in a home than a garage. Of course the media would have us believe that.
As Vice President, Joe Biden did not have the legal authority to be in possession of classified documents outside of government security. That's why this is a scandal. Why did he get these documents? How come it took 6 years for this to be exposed? Some of the classified documents are about China and Ukraine, countries where his grifter son Hunter had lucrative business arrangements. There is already a wealth of disturbing information on the infamous Apple laptop which Hunter forgot about, that point to some shifty dealings by the family in these two countries. . The Penn Biden Center was run by the University of Pennsylvania and benefitted mightily from Chinese largess. Between 2017 and 2020 Chinese donors gave the University 61 million dollars. Joe was paid a total of one million dollars over 3 years as an honorary professor and never taught a class. Nothing to see here, move along.
Could it be as Newt Gingrich tweeted, “The Bidens are just a Delaware version of the Sopranos”? Perhaps what Joe took was damaging data regarding the family cottage influence peddling business that Hunter was the point man. After all there is a report that Hunter was paying the “Big Guy” (as Joe was known in verified emails) $49,910 a month in rent to live in the Wilmington Biden family home. Where did that money come from? So Joe the landlord must have thought the home was equivalent to ocean front living in Malibu or the house was a convenient way to launder ill-gotten gains from Hunter’s nefarious activities.
Even the usual lockstep progressive media has upped their reportage as the story of the discovery becomes ever more mysterious. The actual document discovery story continues to change every day making the daily White House press briefing by Karine Jean-Pierre a must watch clown show. She frustrates the reporters with the same answer to every question on the matter, "I refer you to the Department of Justice...I already answered that question." Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a Special Counsel to investigate the matter. Does anybody think this newly appointed investigator will pursue the matter with the same zeal as the Trump special prosecutor will? Will we see an FBI raid on Joe’s garage, home, or office, a la Trump? Fat chance.
Biden chided Trump for having classified documents, called it irresponsible in a CBS 60 Minutes interview. For a year-plus, Trump and the National Archives knew what Trump had, and what he had was secured in a single place, pad locked as directed by the FBI, with security cameras, Furthermore, the disputed materials were located in a building that was secured by Secret Service 24/7. There is a world of difference between a garage or an office that for at least four years had no Secret Service presence and the classified documents that were securely stored in Trump’s Mar a Lago home.
Maybe the aim is to distract us from bigger scandals in the current regime. By focusing on these classified documents, other scandals or disasters of the administration or the Deep State will get missed. Then the Nation will be left to watch Joe tell tall tales for another 2 years about how he grew up in a Puerto Rico community or the one told on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday when he said in a speech, "I used to go to mass every morning in high school and then in college, before I went to the Black church. Not a joke."
Sloppy Joe…Sloppy.