Last year, the Delaware Supreme Court denied two conservative organizations access to the papers then-Senator Joe Biden donated to the University of Delaware on the grounds that because they did not depend on public funding, they could not be considered public records. In August, Delaware Superior Court Judge Ferris Wharton refused to vacate that ruling, denying Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation access to the materials. “The university is treated specially under FOIA, as you know,” university attorney William Manning told Wharton. Delaware Democrat Joe Biden also gets his share of special treatment.

In 2010, then-Vice President Biden first sought to release the papers but was concerned about “political sensitivities” that they might touch. Biden associate counsel Katherine Oyama emailed Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner Eric Schwerin that the vice president and the White House “will have strong views on some of these items, especially those related to the timing and scope of any public release.” The next year, Biden donated the Senate papers to the University of Delaware.

That donation included more than 2,500 cartons of papers, and 415 gigabytes of electronic records. This material, said UD president Patrick Harker “will illuminate decades of U.S. policy and diplomacy and the vice president’s critical role in its development,” and would provide scholars with “an incredible asset for generations to come.” Such illumination would have to wait, however, because the materials were supposed to be “sealed for two years after Biden retire[d] from public office.” That didn’t happen in 2018, when Biden was two years out of office, and in 2019 he proclaimed his run for the presidency.

In the spring of 2020, former Biden staffer Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault, prompting Biden to request a search of Senate records from 1993 for the alleged complaint. Senate secretary Julie Adams proclaimed that “disclosing the existence of such specific records would amount to a prohibited disclosure under the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Furthermore, we are not aware of any exceptions in law authorizing our office to disclose any such records that do exist, if any, even to original participants in a matter.”

That left the Senate records Biden deeded to UD. Biden told reporters the papers were irrelevant to Reade’s accusation, and the files were closed to the public without “express consent” from Biden. UD claimed a provision in state law exempted the school from requests not related to “public funds” and the records had not been digitized, so there was no way to search the archive.

Biden claimed the materials could be “taken out of context” or used as “fodder” against his run for president. The documents remained inaccessible, even in the face of FOIA requests. Biden claimed the incident with Reade “never, never happened,” and the Hunter Biden back story escaped notice.

Serving as UD chairman of the board since 2015 was John Cochran, a Biden donor and former CEO of MBNA, a Delaware credit card company, once the second-largest issuer of Visas and Mastercards in the nation. Cochran showed up in “The Senator from MBNA,” an exposé published by Byron York, in the January 1998 American Spectator. Sen. Biden was strapped for cash and Cochran paid top dollar for Biden’s house, with additional benefits for the Senator. As York explained, “MBNA’s top executives contributed generously to his campaign in a series of coordinated donations that sidestepped the limits on contributions by the company’s political action committee.”

During the 1996 senatorial race, MBNA became Biden’s biggest single source of contributions. A few weeks after Biden was re-elected, MBNA hired Joe Biden’s son Hunter, “a talented young guy that we are grooming for a management position.” What, exactly, Hunter would do they wouldn’t say. Hunter Biden’s post with MBNA failed to show up in a massive October, 2010 Atlantic essay on Joe Biden headlined “The Salesman.”

“Joe Biden doesn’t just meet you, he engulfs you,” wrote Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden. “There’s the direct contact with his blue eyes, the firm handshake while his other hand grasps your arm, the flash of those famously perfect white teeth, and an immediate frontal assault on your personal space. He shoulders right through the aura of fame and high office.”

In 2020, with Biden seeking the highest office, Hunter Biden’s laptop hit the news. The device bore “a trove of emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and business associates—detailing how the president’s son used his political leverage in his overseas business dealings.” The laptop came into the hands of the FBI but the story was suppressed on social media, and 51 intelligence community veterans called it “Russian disinformation.” The intel vets included former CIA boss John Brennan, who in 1976 voted for the Stalinist Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA, and should never have been hired in first place.

That October surprise helped arrange the Biden presidency, so the materials at UD would be put on hold again until two years after he left the White House. That date had yet to be determined, but Biden’s handling of papers would again come into play. In 2023, Biden came under fire for retention of classified documents after he left the vice president’s office. Special counsel Robert Hur was tasked with investigating the matter.

In the garage, offices and basement of Biden’s Delaware home, Hur found marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, notebooks containing Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy “implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.” Hur found evidence that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” On the other hand, Biden was “an elderly man with memory issues who could not remember when he finished his term as vice president or when his son, Beau, died.” The special counsel opted not to press charges and Biden proclaimed the matter “closed.” 

Biden’s attorney in the matter was Bob Bauer, also the attorney for Barack Obama who told biographer David Garrow, “whatever you do, don’t ask him about his father.” Bauer and fellow attorney Richard Sauber claimed the portrayal of Biden’s memory was neither accurate nor  appropriate. That would be proven false in the June 27, 2024 debate with Trump, when the Delaware Democrat lost whatever train of thought he ever possessed, gave nonsensical answers, and stared off into space.

“Biden’s disastrous debate pitches his reelection bid into crisis,” proclaimed CNN. In the style of Bauer and Sauber, a tide of reports claimed that Biden, was “sharp and focused,” fully in command, and had no intention of stepping aside. That lasted until July 21, when sweet-talking Nancy Pelosi came knocking.

Joe Biden, who claimed to have vanquished Corn Pop, acted as a liaison for Golda Meir during the Six Day War, and who threatened to take Donald Trump out behind the gym, dutifully stepped aside for Kamala Harris as the Democrats’ candidate in 2024. The people were expected to believe that although this senile octogenarian who had never taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and who fell three times boarding an airplane was stepping aside, he was still capable of serving as president of the United States and commander-in -chief of U.S. armed forces.

In Conrad Black’s phrase, Joe Biden is a waxworks effigy of a president, but there’s also a bit more to him. The Delaware Democrat is the Panglossian president, telling the people all is well when they see disaster everywhere. For example, the botched Afghan withdrawal claimed the lives of 13 American troops and handed billions in military hardware to the Taliban. Yet Biden called that operation an “extraordinary success.”

Joe Biden is also a mouthpiece of the globalist-leftist-woke junta that calls the shots. Witness Biden’s Sept. 1, 2022 speech, which was like something staged by Leni Riefenstahl. For Biden, anybody who wants the nation to be great is the enemy.

His Senate papers, now slated to become accessible by 2027, may be of interest to the “presidential historians” who caucus at PBS. For all but the willfully blind, the profile is clear. Shrink-wrapped in statist superstition, utterly corrupt and hostile to the people, Joe Biden ranks among the very worst American presidents. If a nuclear-armed foe wants to chance their odds against us, now might be the time to try.