President Joe Biden’s previously little-known think tank is under scrutiny over its funding and foreign visitors after attorneys discovered a batch of classified materials at the Washington office late last year.
Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, said the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement’s opaque funding and operations demanded answers about who stepped foot in the Washington think tank.
According to its website, the center “engages Penn’s students and partners with its faculty and global centers,” granting potentially broad access to foreign actors. Foreign donations to the University of Pennsylvania tripled from $31 million in 2016 to more than $100 million in 2019 after the Penn Biden Center was announced in 2017, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The university named Biden a Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor in 2017, paying him more than $900,000 for speeches and leading the center between 2017 and 2019, according to his financial disclosures.
Lawmakers questioned Gutmann about the university’s fundraising from China during her Senate confirmation hearing in late 2021. Responding, Gutmann said that given the university’s size and the overall scale of its fundraising efforts, “it’s not surprising that I don’t know of specific gifts and contracts.”CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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