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Biden Lawyers Found Classified Material at His Former Office
The White House said it was cooperating as the Justice Department scrutinizes the matter.


WASHINGTON — President Biden’s lawyers discovered “a small number” of classified documents in his former office at a Washington think tank last fall, the White House said on Monday, prompting the Justice Department to scrutinize the situation to determine how to proceed.

The documents, which date to Mr. Biden’s time as vice president, were found by his personal lawyers on Nov. 2 when they were packing files at an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, according to the White House. Officials did not describe precisely how many documents were involved, what kind of information they included or their level of classification.

The White House said in a statement that the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives and Records Administration on the same day the documents were found “in a locked closet” and that the agency retrieved them the next morning.

Mr. Biden had periodically used an office at the center from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 presidential campaign, and the lawyers were packing it up in preparations to vacate the space, the center said. The discovery was not in response to any prior request from the archives, and there was no indication that Mr. Biden or his team resisted efforts to recover any sensitive documents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/us/p ... ments.html
Of all things, C'mon Joe.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:49 am ...

Replying to @ukraine_map @CrimeaninUSA and @JohnZhangSV
Do you think McCarthey will honour any of the promises made to Gaetz et al.? He only needed their votes for the speakership. The vast majority of the GOP voted for him in the first, and every subsequent round.

Exactly. Not in writing, it did not happen.
Not even honor amongst thieves.

Scott Wong @scottwongDC
.@SpeakerMcCarthy says "a lot of people here" in Congress have fabricated part of their resume.

Santos will have to "build the trust" of voters.

He says Santos will get some committee assignment.

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES
I don’t understand why @cnn doesn’t release the specific number of times @mschlapp called his victim. What is the number.
@mschlapp remains a @FoxNews contributor in good standing.



While the "George Santos" scandal was breaking followed by Mr. 15 ballots drama this has been percolating along somewhat under the radar.
This Schlapp person and his wife Mercedes are big deals in the GQP.

Matthew Aaron Schlapp is an American political activist and lobbyist who is chairman of the American Conservative Union. He leads the lobbying firm Cove Strategies, which had strong ties to the Donald Trump administration. He is also a Fox News political contributor. From Wiki

Spouse: Mercedes Schlapp (m. 2002)
Mercedes Schlapp is an American communications specialist and political commentator for both English and Spanish media. Wikipedia
(née Viana)




Children: Lucia Schlapp, Caterina Schlapp, Ava Schlapp, Elissa Schlapp, Viana Schlapp
Parents: Susan Schlapp
Party: Republican Party
Full name: Matthew Aaron Schlapp
Books: The Desacrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God

By now, is there any doubt that this man is schizophrenic? One thing is to lie. To invent an entire other life is another.
He makes Sybil look grounded.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:17 pm Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES
I don’t understand why @cnn doesn’t release the specific number of times @mschlapp called his victim. What is the number.
@mschlapp remains a @FoxNews contributor in good standing.



While the "George Santos" scandal was breaking followed by Mr. 15 ballots drama this has been percolating along somewhat under the radar.
This Schlapp person and his wife Mercedes are big deals in the GQP.

Matthew Aaron Schlapp is an American political activist and lobbyist who is chairman of the American Conservative Union. He leads the lobbying firm Cove Strategies, which had strong ties to the Donald Trump administration. He is also a Fox News political contributor. From Wiki

Spouse: Mercedes Schlapp (m. 2002)
Mercedes Schlapp is an American communications specialist and political commentator for both English and Spanish media. Wikipedia
(née Viana)




Children: Lucia Schlapp, Caterina Schlapp, Ava Schlapp, Elissa Schlapp, Viana Schlapp
Parents: Susan Schlapp
Party: Republican Party
Full name: Matthew Aaron Schlapp
Books: The Desacrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God

Thanks in large part to generally toxic nature of religion and politics, this is the plight of far too many LGBTQ folks. I can empathize with any closeted individual. I can't empathize with LGBTQ republicans pushing the GOP or religious narrative though when it's always been such a hateful narrative.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:30 pm By now, is there any doubt that this man is schizophrenic? One thing is to lie. To invent an entire other life is another.
He makes Sybil look grounded.

Schizophrenic? I don't think so. Pathological, psychopathic, and narcissistic? Absolutely.

Finally someone who knew "George Santos" before he became "George Santos"

Today's "George Santos" news

I give it one more week before somebody finds out his real name is Keyser Söze.

Evening news on "George Santos"

Tristan Snell
@tristansnell@mstdn.social
Looks like George Santos's $700,000 donation to his own campaign may've been laundered money from a Ponzi scheme called "Harbor City Capital," which defrauded investors, selling them fake stocks, totaling over $17 million.

New reporting from the Washington Post reveals that Santos received payment from Harbor City as late as April 2021.
On April 20, 2021, the SEC filed a complaint against Harbor City accusing it of fraud.
On May 11, 2021, Santos formed the "Devolder Organization."

When Santos then ran for Congress in 2022, he claimed the Devolder Organization was his family's firm, with over $80 million in assets under management.

There is no proof of any kind that the Devolder Org ever did any legitimate business.

When Santos then ran for Congress in 2022, he claimed the Devolder Organization was his family's firm, with over $80 million in assets under management.

There is no proof of any kind that the Devolder Org ever did any legitimate business.

The investigations into Santos will reveal the truth -- but it very much appears that Santos took ill-gotten gains from the defrauded investors of Harbor City, parked them in Devolder, and then used them for his campaign.

Santos is NOT in a good position, let's just say.

Note: He didn't post the below on Mastodon

Tristan Snell @TristanSnell

p.s. Correction: they were fake BONDS or PROMISSORY NOTES, rather than stocks. But they were fake: they promised security and high returns, invested in profit-making lead-generation businesses, but in actuality, the money was pocketed (or sent to other investors, Ponzi-style).

I strongly believe all politics to be the cesspool of the world - it is rife with lies, manipulation, deceit, greed, and many other very negative elements...

I very, very, very rarely pay any attention to politics or to politicians, let alone take the time to write a post about the subject. But I saw something today which intrigued me because A) it really is not political in nature (though it is related to politics), and B) it is ridiculous and sets society back a few decades...

Smoking is Permitted Again Inside the House of Representatives...

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