Closing In on the Classified Cover-up: Harvard Corporation Member David Rubenstein
Journalist Lee Smith raises the question of whether billionaire Harvard Corporation member David Rubenstein, a top donor to the National Archives and close Biden ally, is involved in the White House classified documents scandal—and if so, why. Smith raises questions around Rubenstein’s influence over historical monuments, recasting American history through an anti-racist ideological lens. Going deeper, Lee reveals Rubenstein’s views on the Chinese Communist Party and his company’s facilitation of Beijing’s quashing of internal human rights protests.
Lee reports that “Rubenstein is one of the archives’ most generous patrons. In 2013, the David M. Rubenstein Gallery at the National Archives was completed at a cost of $13.5 million. Rubenstein is also a major Biden ally. He has regularly hosted the Biden family at his Nantucket estate for Thanksgiving—in 2022, 2021, and 2014…”
“The National Archives is supposed to be above the political fray, an institution dedicated to preserving historical records. And indeed history is one of Rubenstein’s passions… It seems that Rubenstein’s historical mission is to turn U.S. institutions into platforms to promote contemporary progressive ideas. He donated $20 million to refurbish parts of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home in a makeover that recasts the founding father’s legacy as an object lesson in systemic racism. Ibram X. Kendi’s titles are available for purchase at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, and the permanent David M. Rubenstein exhibit at the National Archives, ‘Records of Rights,’ focuses on America’s disenfranchisement and mistreatment of minorities…”
“Like other top Biden allies, Rubenstein has long been bullish on the Chinese Communist Party… A 2019 Wall Street Journal report showed that Rubenstein’s Carlyle Group helped Beijing evade U.S. export controls to purchase satellites that help network People’s Liberation Army troops, boost CCP propaganda broadcasts, and allow Chinese authorities to put down protests in Xinjiang, where the party has detained more than a million Muslims, mostly from the Turkic-speaking Uyghur population, in forced labor and reeducation camps.”
Lee points out, “Biden’s records from the time of his son’s global gold rush [including from Beijing] should have been delivered to the National Archives after the vice president left office. And if they were, they would have been kept under the supervision of bureaucrats connected to a billionaire Biden fixer [Rubenstein].”
