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Welcome to part one of our most corrupt series episode on Joseph Biden. For his entire political
career he has been a resident of Delaware and after a very few years as an attorney he has
spent the last five decades in public office as a US senator vice president and currently President.
Biden has had a colorful if not that remarkable a career. Who is Joe Biden? What does his life say
about his character? What has he accomplished if anything during his political career? Hello I'm
Colin Heaton military veteran historian author and welcome to this episode of Forgotten [Music]
History
[Music] Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was born on November 20th 1942 and grew up for a short time
in the city of Scranton Pennsylvania but the family moved to Delaware and he never returned.
He still likes to claim that he is a Scranton boy although many of the locals do not claim him. His
siblings are Valerie Biden Owens, James B. "Jim" Biden and Francis William Biden. His father Joseph
Biden senior worked cleaning furnaces and later worked as a used car salesman. His mother was
Katherine Eugenia" Jean" Finnegan. Biden attended St Paul's Elementary School in Scranton but in
1955 the family moved to Mayfield Delaware when he was 13 years old. Biden struggled with a stutter
as a child and kids gave him the nicknames of Dash and Joe Impedimenta. After high school
Biden attended the University of Delaware studied history political science and he claimed he played
football. However during a campaign stop in Athens Ohio in October 2012 then Vice President Joe Biden
said the last time he was in town he was playing against the Ohio University football team in 1963
and that he almost got arrested for walking to a girl's dormitory. The fact is he never played for
his college football team although his official biography still has that claim but he did develop
an interest in politics during these years primarily by the election of John F Kennedy in
1961. He met his first wife Neilia Hunter also a Syracuse University student while on vacation
in the Bahamas after graduating from Delaware in 1965 he was accepted to Syracuse University
law school and married Hunter in 1966. Biden was a mediocre student at best and did not have an
impressive academic resume throughout college and this substandard performance followed him
into law school. During his first year in law school he failed a course for failing
to properly cite a reference to a law review article. After graduation from law school in
1968 where he barely survived Biden moved to Wilmington Delaware to practice law as
a public defender and was an active member of the Democratic Party* He was elected to
the New Castle County Council in 1970 where he served as councilman. Then Biden started
his own law firm in 1971. Biden and his wife Neilia had three children Joseph "Bo" born in
1969 Robert Hunter born in 1970 and Naomi "Amy" born in 1971. In 1972 the Delaware Democratic
Party encouraged Biden then 29 years old to run against the Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs
for the United States Senate. Biden's campaign was managed by his family members and his sister
Valerie Biden Owens was his campaign manager. His brothers and both parents also campaigned
for him Biden. Won in an upset to become the sixth youngest US senator elected in American
history. Just before Christmas in 1972 Biden's wife and three children were involved in a fatal
car accident while shopping for a Christmas tree. His wife and daughter were killed and sons Bo and
Hunter were badly injured. To his credit Biden did not attend the swearing in ceremony for
new senators in Washington as he wanted to be near his two surviving sons and prepare for the
services for his wife and daughter. Instead he took the oath of office from his sons' hospital
room. This was when Biden decided to continue to live in Wilmington and commute to and from
Washington each day using the Amtrak train which he continued to do during his time in
the senate. After Congress failed to ratify the SALT II treaty signed in 1979 by Soviet General
Secretary Leon Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter Biden met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko. They addressed the concerns that Americans had and Biden worked with Gromyko
and "secured changes that addressed the Senate Foreign Relations committee's objections."
Getting back to his relationship according to Biden he met teacher Jill Tracy Stevenson
(nee) Jacobs in 1975 supposedly on a blind date according to their mutual story. However it has
surfaced that they were having an affair as Jill was married to Delaware business
owner Bill Stevenson at that time. Jill filed for divorce and wanted the house of
the settlement which was contested by Stevenson on the provable grounds of adultery. Stevenson
stated that Joe's brother Francis Biden paid him a personal visit and threatened him after
the divorce which Stevenson won. Joe and Jill were married at the United Nations Chapel in
New York on June 17th 1977 but according to Stevenson who stated "Frankie Biden of the
Biden crime family comes up to me and goes 'give Jill the house or you're going to have
serious problems.' I looked at Frankie and I said 'please are you threatening me?' and
needless to say about 2 months later my brother and I were indicted for that tax charge for
$8,200. It should be noted that while Hunter Biden was charged with two misdemeanor accounts
for $2.2 million in unpaid taxes coming from entities by the Obama and Clinton appointed
members of the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice Stevenson and
his brother were charged with two felonies over $8,200 in unpaid taxes in a personal vendetta
by Joe Biden. We will revisit Biden's use of federal agencies for personal gain later in
part two as it was apparent even at that time Biden was willing to use his federal office for
a personal agenda against other people. "In the mid 1970s Biden was one of the Senate's
strongest opponents of race integration bussing. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it
and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon school integration
policies." Biden admitted that he and Hillary Clinton had been mentored by West Virginia
senator and former Ku Klux &lan "kleagle'"or a "recruiter" Robert C. Byrd who filibustered
against both the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts in the 1960s during the Lyndon B. Johnson
Administration. Biden himself has stated that he was opposed to forced busing because he "did
not want his kids living in a racial jungle" a sentiment expressed by his wealthy Democrat
supporters especially in Delaware. He opposed a constitutional amendment banning busing entirely
as long as it was used in the South or other places not affecting himself or his voting
constituents. During the first Democratic primary debate in 2019 Kamala Harris brought up Biden's
harsh opposition to bussing as a means of integrating schools in the 1970s. In 1976
Biden supported a measure forbidding the use of federal funds for transporting students beyond the
school closest to them to enforce integration. There was backlash and in 1977 he co-sponsored
an amendment by closing the loopholes in that measure which was signed into law by President
James Carter in 1978. This would not be the first time Biden would change his official position on
an important topic if it meant that he could sway votes and stay in power by pandering to those who
he felt could benefit him. Biden softened on his segregation mentality as did to be fair
Senator Robert Byrd who in later life denounced his years in the Klan and being supported in his
political career by the KKK and he apologized for his involvement. Biden seeing the political winds
went after the Reagan Administration in particular Secretary of State George Schultz at a Senate
hearing regarding the administration's support of South Africa which was anti-communist and dealing
with communist supported terrorists despite its continued policy of apartheid. When Biden was
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987 Biden displayed his severe partisanship and was
credited with Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork failing to be confirmed. Biden along along with
Senator Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts also opposed Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination
where he took some heat regarding accusations made by Anita Hill who accused Thomas of making
unwanted sexual advances. In 1987 Biden decided to run for the US Presidency but dropped out of
the Democratic primary after it was shown that he had plagiarized part of a speech given by British
Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. Biden has also made several false claims that he had earned three
degrees in college that he attended law school on a full scholarship and that he graduated in
the top half of his class. None of that was true. He also claimed that he had marched in
the civil rights movement which was a lie. The news services and fact checkers blew it all in
the open and on September 23rd 1987 Biden withdrew his candidacy saying "it had been overrun by the
exaggerated shadow of his past mistakes." We will revisit this commonly repeated theme later as
well in part two. Biden had been suffering from severe headaches during his campaign and after
dropping out in 1988 it was discovered that he had two life-threatening brain aneurysms
requiring surgery. Complications from the surgery created blood clots in his lungs requiring another
surgery. Biden was unable to work in the senate for seven months. Biden also served as Chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations for several years. His many foreign policy positions included
advocating for strategic arms limitation with the Soviet Union promoting peace and stability
in the Balkans expanding NATO to include former Soviet block nations and opposing the First Gulf
War at the beginning of Operation Desert Shield in 1990 followed by Operation Desert Storm in
January 1991. Biden voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991 siding with 45 of the 55
Democratic senators in opposition. His concern was that the US was bearing almost all the military
and financial burden in the United Nations Coalition force. In 1993 Biden voted for a
provision that decided that homosexuality was incompatible with military life violating the
Uniform Code of Military Justice which banned gays from serving in the armed forces. If homosexuals
were discovered serving in uniform they were liable to be court martialed until President
Bill Clinton introduced the "Don't ask don't tell" policy. Subsequently Biden voted for the
Defensive Marriage Act in 1996 which prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex
marriages thereby barring individuals in such marriages from equal protection under federal
law and allowing states to do the same. In 2015 that act was ruled unconstitutional in
Obergefell v. Hodges. However while in the Obama Administration as vice president he again changed
his position flip-flopping on that subject and ran for president on the pro same sex marriage
platform. As president today in a total 180° turn from his previous position he bowed to the woke
collective who supported him and now he supports not only same-sex marriage but also gays openly
serving in the military as well as transgender persons. In addition to foreign policy Biden was
an outspoken proponent of tougher crime laws and in 1994 during the Clinton Administration
he sponsored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act to add 100,000 police officers,
a ban on assault weapons which liberals are never able to to define and increased sentences for a
host of crimes. One provision was the habitual offender argument better known as "The Three
Strikes" law which incarcerated hundreds of thousands of people especially minorities for
even a small legal infraction. Some states already had habitual offender laws but Biden
supported increasing the role of the United States Department of Justice's Anti-Violence
Strategy. These laws require a person who was convicted of an offense and who has one or two
other previous serious convictions to serve a mandatory life sentence in prison with or
without parole depending upon the jurisdiction and if the crimes were violent in nature. The
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was passed with bipartisan support in April 1994 and
was originally written by Senator Joe Biden. Many liberals complain today that the law disparaged
minorities especially blacks who were serving life sentences and Democratic states followed
the administration's position and enhanced their own provisions. According to the ACLU, "Following
passage of the Federal Crime Bill incarceration rates continued to climb for an additional 14
years. First the 1994 crime bill gave the federal stamp of approval for states to pass even more
tough on crime laws. By 1994 all states had passed at least one mandatory minimum law but the 1994
crime bill in encouraged even more punitive laws and harsher practices on the ground including
by prosecutors and police to lock up more people and for longer periods of time." This increase in
punishments also increased the growth industry of private prisons which contracted with the
various states. The companies that owned these operations sent their lobbyists to Washington DC
and contributed heavily to Democrats' re-election campaigns including Biden. Biden in recent years
has apologized for that law which put so many potential Democrat voters in prison for very
long sentences but that only came after he again switched his position on crime due to the rise of
the domestic terror groups Black Lives Matter, Antifa and the unhinged and unfounded outcry
claiming "systemic racism" against minorities. Biden was critical of independent council Ken
Starr's investigations during the 1990s covering the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals
plaguing the Clinton Administration. He voted to acquit President Clinton during the impeachment
proceedings. Biden stated "it's going to be a cold day in Hell before another independent council
would be granted similar powers." That was before he became president where he needed his attorney
general the ineffective corrupt and incompetent Merrick Garland to involve himself in appointing
various "independent councils" to protect him his son Hunter and the Biden Crime Family. Before the
start of the Yugoslav Civil War as tensions were increasing Biden held a tense three-hour meeting
with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in April 1993. Again to his credit Biden worked on several
versions of legislative language urging the US toward greater involvement. Biden has rightly
considered his role in the Balkans crisis as his proudest moment in public life regarding foreign
policy. In 1999 during the Kosovo War Biden supported the 1999 NATO bombings and he with
Senator John McCain co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution "which called on Clinton to use
all necessary force including ground troops to confront Milosevic over Yugoslav actions
toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo." Biden was a strong supporter of the war in Afghanistan saying
"whatever it takes we should do it." As head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he said
in 2002 that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was quote "a threat to national security and
there was no other option than to eliminate that threat." In October 2002 as one of the most vocal
hawks on Capitol Hill he voted in favor of the authorization for use of military force against
Iraq approving the US invasion. By late 2006 Biden's stance had changed and he completely
reversed his previous opinions. He opposed the troop surge of 2007 saying General David
Petraeus was "dead flat wrong" in believing the surge could work but Biden was wrong. In
part two we will dive deeper into Joseph Biden's political past his involvement in foreign policy
as well as the many accusations of sexual advances sexual assault and then later we will continue
with the ongoing impeachment proceeding and the continuing saga of of the Biden Crime Family's
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