‘Comcast’s Secret Weapon’ Opened the Penn Biden Center

When Biden announced that he was running for the White House, he topped it off with a fundraiser hosted by Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen. Cohen, the ‘shadow lobbyist’ for the parent company of MSNBC, was a longtime power player in both the corporate world and among Philly Democrats, and he had a special connection with Biden.

The political boss turned wealthy executive was the chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees.

In 2018, Biden and Cohen, wielding giant scissors, clumsily cut through a banner inaugurating the Penn Biden Center. “All of us at Penn are immensely proud and privileged to have Vice President Biden leading the work of the Center and to have his name associated with Penn’s name,” Cohen claimed.

After classified documents were illegally found to have been stored at the building near the Capitol, the University of Pennsylvania may be less thrilled by the association. But Cohen had already left to become Biden’s ambassador to Canada while the university’s president, Amy Gutmann, resigned to become Biden’s ambassador to Germany.

Biden was paid $911,643 for 9 campus appearances, but he also got some office space and roles for key insiders like future Secretary of State Blinken and lobbyist/adviser Steve Ricchetti.

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At the intersection of the classified documents scandal is one company: Comcast.

Previously, we exposed Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts as the King of Hate Media, but Comcast’s tentacles go even deeper than the lies and hate spewed on NBC and MSNBC.

Along with Cohen, also hosting Biden was Comcast’s VP of Community Investment Charisse Lillie. Biden’s opening act fundraiser at Cohen’s home raised over $700,000. Both six figure sums were part of a river of cash that flowed between Comcast, Biden and UPenn.

Cohen had started out as a chief of staff to Philly Mayor Ed Rendell. A year after leaving office, Rendell became a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC. And, with the Comcast takeover of NBC underway, his former chief of staff became the executive vice president of Comcast.

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