Joe Biden's Email Pseudonyms

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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While Vice President, Joe Biden maintained several email accounts under pseudonyms, some of which were used to conduct government business, as well as correspondence with his son, Hunter Biden. Why? Plus, concerns about Mitch McConnell and the future of the GOP Senate leadership arise after the Senate Minority Leader freezes in front of cameras for the second time in recent weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:34.1	Mystery surrounds the discovery of secret emails from President Joe Biden when he was Vice President,
0:40.8	some of them sent to his son Hunter. Why did he use pseudonyms to communicate government business?
0:47.2	Plus, Mystery also surrounds the physical condition of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
0:52.2	As he freezes in a public forum for the second time in several weeks, how ill is the 81-year-old
0:58.8	Senate leader? And I should say highly effective Senate leader. And what does it mean for
1:03.1	the Republican Party and its chances of regaining control of the Senate in 2024?
1:08.4	Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal editorial page. And I'm here with
1:12.5	Kim Strassel and Kate Bacheldur-Odel. And I want to welcome you both. Thank you for being on.
1:18.3	Kim, let's start here with first this strange story about Joe Biden's secret emails.
1:23.0	When did we first find out about them? He's using a pseudonym for email accounts. And why do these
1:28.7	some matter? Sure. We actually first found out about Joe Biden's use of pseudonyms about two
1:34.2	years ago when there was some news stories showing that emails on Hunter Biden's laptop
1:40.2	went back and forth to these odd email addresses. They included Robin Ware 456 at Gmail,
1:47.7	JRB Ware at Gmail, another one at least. And it became clear that these were pseudonyms that Joe Biden
1:55.0	had used while Vice President. And Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson demanded information
2:01.1	at that time from the National Archives and the White House. They have been stonewalt. Why this
2:05.2	is in the news again is because now we have a greater sense of the scope of just how often and
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