Joe Biden tells us he's got skeletons in his closet

After over a month of silence Joe Biden has finally formally denied charges that he sexually assaulted  Tara Reade.

In doing so however he revealed that he's done things in meetings with foreign leaders, including Putin, that he doesn't want you to know about.

Here's the exchange in an interview Biden had with Mika Brzezinski, a hard leftist who was far gentler on Biden than she probably would have been with Trump:

“The first is about your University of Delaware records, do you agree the reporting that those records were supposed to be revealed to the public and then they were resealed for a longer period of time until after you ‘leave public life,’” Brzezinski said. “And if you agree with that, if that’s what happened, why did that happen?”

“The fact is that there’s a lot of things of speeches I’ve made, positions I’ve taken, interviews that I did overseas with people, all of those things relating to my job,” Biden responded. “And the idea that they would all be made public in the fact while I was running for public office, they could be really taken out of context.”

“The papers are position papers, they are documents that existed and that when I, for example, when I met with Putin or when I met with whomever,” Biden continued. “And all of that to be fodder in a campaign at this time and I don’t know of anybody who’s done anything like that.”

So Biden said that there are records of things he said to Putin that he doesn't want you the voters to know about.

That's reassuring...not.

The least horrible interpretation is that like Trump Biden tried to butter up Putin by playing to Putin's narcissism.  But since the #FakeNews media and the Democrats have viciously attacked Trump for doing that letting the world know that Biden did the same would be politically disadvantageous for Biden.

The worst interpretation is that Biden was part of Obama's deal with Putin.

In a hot mic moment the world heard Obama say:

President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday that if given “space,” he’ll have more flexibility “after my election” for negotiations on issues like missile defense. “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama told the Russian leader.

“Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space,” President Medvedev replied. “Space for you…”

“This is my last election,” Obama observed. “After my election I have more flexibility.”

“I understand,” responded Medvedev. “I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”

Obama essentially promised Putin a quid pro quo; you--Putin-- don't create any waves during my reelection campaign and I'll do what you want vis a vis missile defense.  Essentially Obama was buying Putin's help by promising to lie to American voters about what he, Obama, would do about missile defense.

If Biden played middle man on conversations related to this "deal" it would be seriously damaging for him given that we the people already have plenty of evidence that Biden's loyalty is up for sale given is defense of China after the Chinese government gave Joe's son, Hunter, $1.5 billion to invest for them.

The really troubling thing though is that Biden thought it was ok to tell us that we'd be less likely to vote for him if we knew what he'd really been doing so that it was important to keep us in the dark.

That's the antithesis of openness.

By the way this is unlike Trump's tax records. Democrats haven't any evidence that Trump's tax records reveal any crimes and under the Constitution unless they do they can't randomly demand is, or your, tax records just because they don't like him.

On the other hand Biden is specifically talking about what he did in political office and there are laws mandating government transparency which may or may not apply but the point is that we the people have a right to know what our government is doing unless it would hurt national security.

Biden isn't saying that the records he won't share hurt the country; only that they could hurt him.