(Headline USA) House Republicans re-upped their demand for President Joe Biden’s visitor logs from his Delaware residences after his reelection campaign announced its headquarters will be based out of his private home in Wilmington.
The White House has refused to offer any transparency as to who visits the president at his Delaware residences, despite frequent visits to his home in Wilmington and vacation house in Rehoboth Beach.
“Joe Biden should enthusiastically offer to release visitor logs from both his homes,” said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, a member of the House Oversight Committee. “But don’t hold your breath—odds are you’re going to turn blue.”
An Associated Press analysis released in January estimated that the president spent more than a quarter of his first two years in office in Delaware.
Other estimates indicate that he has spent as much as 40% of his presidency on vacation—much of it in his home state.
A shirtless Joe Biden enjoys a relaxing day at the beach.
Biden has spent 353 days — 39.2% of his presidency — on vacation. pic.twitter.com/1IpnjlNglS
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 8, 2023
House Republicans argued Biden was using his private residences as a shield from scrutiny, and that voters deserved better.
“Candidate Joe Biden promised, if elected, to have the most transparent administration in history,” Fallon said. “As president, he’s fallen woefully short.”
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said Biden’s reelection campaign likely chose Delaware as its headquarters so that he can hide in the basement again—a reference to his 2020 campaign strategy, when his public appearances were limited, ostensibly in deference to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Delaware is notably home to Joe Biden’s infamous basement, where his handlers will surely place him throughout the 2024 campaign,” Donalds said. “Joe Biden will comfortably hang out underground while his DOJ and the liberal media attack his political enemies.”
Biden’s weaponized Justice Department confirmed this week a second planned indictment against his top Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, while media also waged a smear campaign to discredit Biden’s top Democrat rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as an anti-Semite.
The White House counsel’s office has defended Biden’s decision not to make public his Delaware home visitor logs, claiming that it is not standard practice for presidents to keep track of the visitors to their personal residences.
However, conservatives have pointed out that Biden promised the public increased transparency, which is being undermined by his refusal to make the visitor logs accessible.
“It’s an easy way to bypass the alleged transparency they’re promising,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.
Biden’s home has also become a crime scene on at least two occasions in recent memory.
In January, it came to light that several batches of classified documents—spanning all the way back to his time as a U.S. senator, had been discovered in unsecured areas of the home, including the garage.
More recently, a House Oversight investigation, with the aid of whistleblower testimony, revealed that the president’s son Hunter, while staying at the home in Wilmington, had extorted millions of dollars from a Chinese businessman with ties to the communist government’s espionage ministry.
Their warnings fell on deaf ears.
In August 2020, a search warrant uncovered a text between Hunter and Henry Zhao, an executive at a Chinese company that paid Hunter $100,000.
The text mentioned Joe Biden repeatedly.
Investigators were not allowed to verify the information. pic.twitter.com/wpqmrkppz1
— Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) June 22, 2023
The message, which indicated that Hunter was sitting beside his father at the time, was confirmed by geolocation, which placed both men at the Wilmington compound.
Neither has been held accountable for the criminal conduct to date.
Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.
