The One Detail That Could Condemn Biden
Story by Ewan Palmer • 5h ago

President Joe Biden will face further scrutiny if he is found to have known about the classified documents found at his home and former office, a legal expert has warned.

Unlike Donald Trump, who kept top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving the White House, Biden isn't accused of attempting to restrict a federal attempt to retrieve the classified materials. Trump also failed to hand them over to the government months after he had received a subpoena to do so, prompting the August raid at his Florida home.

Instead, Biden's lawyers immediately returned all the documents to the National Archives upon their discovery, and the president hasn't been accused of deliberately attempting to hold onto them.

However, Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of Los Angeles-based West Coast Trial Lawyers, said Biden may face consequences if it turns out he knew that Obama-era classified documents were being kept in his home or in the Washington D.C. think tank office.

"Biden's awareness of the classified materials is the key question in determining whether he violated the P**********l Records Act, Espionage Act, or other federal law," Rahmani told Newsweek.

"Mere negligent misplacement of the documents isn't enough for criminal liability."

Under the Espionage Act and other federal security legislation, any unauthorized retention, mishandling or t***smission of documents is considered a violation of the law.

Biden has already said he was "surprised" to hear about the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center and that he is fully cooperating with the Department of Justice.

However, even if Biden were found to have been aware about the location of the documents, he will still be shielded from prosecution while president. Biden is currently planning to run for president again in 2024, meaning that he could have absolute immunity for years if he wins the next e******n.

Experts have already questioned whether there is any justification for a criminal investigation over Biden's handling of the classified materials.

Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal compared the classified materials situation between Biden and Trump to the pair borrowing a library book.

"One forgot about the book, finds it a couple years later, and then immediately gives it back. The other person knowingly takes the books & refuses to give it back when the library sends request after request for it," Katyal tweeted.

"In both cases, the same basic action was taken: a library book wasn't returned. But, intuitively, we all view those two scenarios differently. And fortunately, so does the law when it comes to something like the possession of classified documents."

Even if not criminally liable, Republicans have also questioned why the White House did not immediately reveal that Biden's lawyers had found the initial cache of documents on November 2, just days before the midterm e******ns.

Timing Issues
Rahmani noted that there is no legal requirement for the National Archives or Biden to disclose the existence of the classified documents to the American public as soon as they found them, but not doing so was bound to raise suspicion.

"Biden's lawyers reportedly notified the National Archives when they were discovered, which satisfies their legal requirement. Whether it was the right move politically is another question," Rahmani told Newsweek.

Elsewhere, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed that 71 percent of Americans think Biden's classified materials story is either very serious (39 percent) or somewhat serious (32 percent).

Nearly half (46 percent) of Americans think Biden shouldn't be investigated over his handling of these classified documents, while 37 percent think he should face criminal charges.

"Roughly two-thirds of Americans are aware of and troubled by the misplaced classified documents found in President Biden's home and private office. But is it a criminal case? No," said Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac University polling analyst.
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More antisemitic h**e seen in L.A. after Kanye West’s remarks

Kanye West’s weeks-long spate of antisemitic comments drew a well-known h**e group to Los Angeles this weekend for a demonstration of support on a 405 Freeway overpass, raising alarms from local officials and residents that the rapper’s rhetoric was inspiring more public bigotry.

West, also known as Ye, has attracted widespread criticism and was locked out of his Instagram and Twitter accounts in recent weeks for comments online and in TV interviews espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories that have spurred h**e and violence against Jewish people in the past — including that they have outsized power and influence in the media. In addition to freezing his social media accounts, West’s comments have drawn public demands that he lose lucrative endorsements and further threatened his waning celebrity cachet.

On Saturday, demonstrators gave N**i salutes as they stood behind a large overpass banner that read, “Kanye is right about the Jews,” according to images collected by antidiscrimination organizations and Jewish residents appalled by the group’s message.

“It’s not just words,” said Sam Yebri, a lawyer and former Anti-Defamation League board member who lives in Westwood and took to Twitter to denounce the event. “There is clearly a connection to w***e s*******y and neo-N**i movements.”

Responding to the overpass demonstration, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said on Twitter on Sunday that antisemitism cannot be tolerated and that he stands with the Jewish community.

“We cannot tolerate the #AntiSemitism that was on full display ... on an LA Fwy,” Gascón wrote. "#W****Supremacy is a societal cancer that must be excised. This message is dangerous & cannot be normalized.”

Yebri said the demonstration was just one of many antisemitic incidents in the city in recent days and weeks. Residents also have found fliers at their homes and on their cars spewing r****t and otherwise bigoted stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jewish and L***Q people, he said.

Yebri said he recently found a flier at his home casting the C****-** p******c and response as part of a Jewish “agenda.” He said fliers found across the city have espoused the well-worn antisemitic idea that Jewish people somehow exert outsized influence over the media.

Friends f**gged other fliers found in L.A. neighborhoods that alleged both the Biden administration and the L***Q rights movement are controlled by Jewish people, he said.

“This is an issue that we need more attention and more action on,” said Yebri, who is running for the L.A. City Council seat of outgoing 5th District Councilmember Paul Koretz. “People are terrified and feel abandoned by our leaders, who are neither speaking up nor doing anything about this increase in antisemitism.”

The Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments said Sunday that they were investigating the recent distribution of antisemitic fliers.

In Beverly Hills, police said they were investigating the overnight distribution of about 25 fliers blaming gun control measures on Jewish people.

LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the department’s major crimes division was “aggressively investigating a series of flier drops” that appeared to be connected to those in Beverly Hills.

Investigators have located video of a vehicle they believe was involved, he said, and “will continue to pursue every avenue to identify and prosecute individuals whenever possible involved in these antisemitic attacks.”

Sam Yebri holds antisemitic fliers found in his Westwood neighborhood.
West has been widely criticized for his antisemitic remarks, including one in which he said he was going to “Go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”

He made further antisemitic remarks in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

West, who is Black, had faced criticism as well for wearing a “White L***s M****r” shirt to his YZY runway show during Paris Fashion Week. The controversy around him gained additional momentum when it was reported that he was buying the right-wing social media company Parler.

Yebri said neither antisemitism nor the ideas espoused in the fliers found around L.A. are new, but he nonetheless drew a connection between the recent proliferation and West’s rhetoric.

“Kanye’s remarks give added air and momentum to the h**e that previously was limited to the dark corners of the internet,” Yebri said. “Now it’s popping up in neighborhoods, at people’s homes and throughout Los Angeles.”

Several of the fliers Yebri and his friends and neighbors have collected, reviewed by The Times, make reference to the group Goyim Defense League, which has been identified as a h**e group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League and the organization StopAntisemitism.

Both the Anti-Defamation League and StopAntisemitism attributed the overpass demonstration to the Goyim Defense League, which has roots in California and has repeatedly staged antisemitic demonstrations in L.A. and neighboring cities such as Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.

They accused one of the group’s leaders, Jon Minadeo II of the Northern California city of Petaluma, of leading the demonstration and at one point yelling at a California Highway Patrol officer who had responded to the scene.

Minadeo could not be reached for comment Sunday.

The CHP did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its response to the demonstration, including whether any arrests were made.

StopAntisemitism said the demonstration represented a “merging” of West’s “horrific antisemitic outbursts” and the Goyim Defense League’s track record of distributing antisemitic materials in the region.

“W***e s*********ts capitalizing on Ye’s ongoing antisemitic tantrums is another example of how extremists find a commonality in the hatred of Jews,” said Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism. “While the atrocious and bigoted behavior of the GDL may be protected by the 1st Amendment, this is clearly a targeted harassment campaign against the Jewish people.”

Rez called on elected officials and law enforcement to “find a way to put an end to these antics before someone gets hurt.”

Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said the overpass demonstration was “the latest example of how extremists across the ideological spectrum have embraced” West’s rhetoric.

He said the Goyim Defense League had recently taken to the messaging platform Telegram to discuss capitalizing on West’s comments with yet more fliers — this time blaming Jewish people for the s***e trade.

Segal said West’s most recent rhetoric “has helped advance the spread of long-standing h**eful and false narratives shared by extremist groups.”

West responded to the “death con” tweet, which has since been deleted, telling interviewer Piers Morgan that he apologized to those people hurt by the comment but that he didn’t regret making it.