First appearance on Fox: Texas Republican lawmakers are ramping up their attacks on the Biden administration to hand over records of President Biden’s mysterious visit to Delaware.
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) sent a letter to both Mr. Biden and Kimberly Cheatle, the deputy secretary of the Secret Service, asking them to release visitor records from the president’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.
Biden was embroiled in a scandal earlier this year when classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered in his garage in Delaware.
Who had access to Biden’s classified documents? Republicans demand White House release of Delaware visitor records
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) sent a letter to both President Biden and Secret Service Deputy Secretary Kimberly Cheatle asking them to release visitor records from the president’s Delaware home. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Gooden asked Biden to provide “information and public access” to the logs after the documents were discovered in January.
The Texas Republican also said that given the “tremendous amount of time” Biden spends at his home in Delaware and the serious allegations of unethical conduct and influence peddling against his immediate family, Americans wrote that we have a right to know who is influencing this administration. ”
“The Biden administration has continued to promise to restore transparency and truth to government, and the failure to release this information sends the opposite message,” Gooden warned.
“We urge you to fulfill this promise and make these visitor records available to the public,” he continued.
The Texas Republican also wrote that given the amount of time Biden spends away from the White House, “the American people have a right to know who is influencing this administration.” (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
“The White House Visitor Records Policy provides unprecedented information to the American public about who is lobbying your administration,” Gooden wrote, adding, “The White House visitor records policy provides unprecedented information to the American public about who is lobbying your administration.” , it has been revealed that your senior staff met with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s top aide days before the indictment.” A lawsuit was filed against former President Trump. ”
The Texas congressman noted that Biden spent approximately “200 days” of his presidential term at his home in Wilmington.
“The public deserves confidence that our government is listening to the concerns of the American people and is not acting in the best interests of lobbyists, friends, and donors,” he said.
“Unfortunately, your administration has previously disclosed that there are no records of visitors to your Delaware mansion,” Gooden wrote.
The Texas congressman noted that roughly “200 days” of Biden’s presidential term were “spent” at Biden’s Wilmington compound. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))
But Gooden pointed out that there were also classified documents in Biden’s Wilmington home that went unnoticed for years.
“Continued denial of existing visitor logs represents a potential conflict of interest between you and the individuals you are hosting in your private residence,” Gooden continued.
Gooden said Biden’s “decision to keep classified documents in his home in Delaware” “could also be considered a national security risk,” adding that “the classified documents are domestically located.” Ta. [Biden’s] The inability of the Garage and the Secret Service to confirm the existence of visitor logs is a potential national security breach of the information within these discovered documents. ”
A Republican lawmaker from Texas asked Biden if he intended to “expand” the “basis for visitor information disclosure” to other locations the president regularly visits, and if he intends to “extend the basis for disclosure of visitor information” to other locations the president regularly visits. “Did you visit the president’s property in Delaware?”
“If yes, did they have access to where classified documents were kept?” Gooden asked.
In a letter to Cheatle, Gooden said it “seems to be unprecedented in recent years for a president to conduct official business in a vacation resort with a history of security deficiencies.”
“While we appreciate that any president is entitled to some degree of privacy when not in the White House, this president has often left the public who pay large sums of money for access to him in the execution of his official duties.” “And in some cases, I’ve asked for advice while on vacation from Washington.” ”
Gooden said Biden’s “decision to keep classified documents at his home in Delaware” also “could be considered a national security risk.” (Dario Alekín, Fox News Digital)
Gooden told Cheatle that the decision had been made to continue to make White House visitor records from the Worker and Visitor Entry System (WAVES) and the Access Control Records System (ACR) publicly available. and that those systems are “used as the property of the President of the State of Delaware.”
The senator asked whether the Secret Service was “considering expanding these systems and other security checks” to other facilities where Biden conducts official business.
Gooden also requested that Cheatle provide “all communications and documents between the U.S. Secret Service and the Biden Administration regarding Delaware visitor records and the decision to store visitor records on Delaware property.” He asked them to submit it “again.”
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Neither the White House nor the Secret Service immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
In January, Gooden requested that all visitor logs be made public. President Biden’s official residence in Delaware after the White House revealed that a bundle of classified documents had been discovered in the president’s garage.
