The scandal involving President Joe Biden’s controversial use of aliases just got a new twist after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forced the National Archives and Records Administration’s hand.
More accurately, the scandal got thousands of new twists.
The National Archives has admitted to having a trove of emails, documents, and other electronic records in their possession where Biden used his aliases Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, or JRB Ware while serving as vice president — and a constitutional law group’s suit filed Monday revealed just how many there are.
There are nearly 5,400 emails containing Biden’s known aliases in the National Archives possession.
The existence of the documents was first revealed in June 2022 in response to a request by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a nonprofit legal group.
“We have performed a search of our collection for Vice Presidential records related to your [June 9, 2022] request and have identified approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request,” Stephannie Oriabure confirmed last year, the lawsuit just revealed.
The law group is accusing the National Archives of “dragging their feet” and filed the suit Monday to get the records released.
The group claims the documents may contain proof that Biden used his position to forward sensitive information or discussed business with his troubled son Hunter Biden.
“All too often, public officials abuse their power by using it for their personal or political benefit. When they do, many seek to hide it,” a lawyer for the nonprofit, Kimberly Hermann, said in a statement Monday.
“The only way to preserve governmental integrity is for NARA to release Biden’s nearly 5,400 emails to SLF and thus the public,” her statement continued.
“The American public deserves to know what is in them.”
Republican leaders investigating the Biden family business ties have also demanded the records to be made public.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Rep. James Comer, R-K.Y., said on August 17.
“We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining, and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates,” he said.
“We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest,” Comer said. “The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption.“
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