Monica P. Medina is the new “Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources,” the State Department recently announced, without noting that Medina is also the wife of Ron Klain, chief of staff to Joe Biden. The Washington Post story, headlined, “In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals,” also failed to note the Klain connection. This sort of nepotism, coupled with media malpractice, has surrounded Joe Biden for a long time.

“Ambassador Cathy Russell has been a trusted and indispensable advisor to Jill and me for nearly 30 years,” Biden announced last December, as the UN chose Russell to be executive director of UNICEF. As Biden proclaimed, Russell had served as “Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. She sat on the Advisory Board of the Biden-Harris Transition Team and served as Vice Chair of the Biden-Harris Campaign.” But there is more to the trusted advisor. …

The Delaware Democrat did not explain that Cathy Russell was the wife of Thomas Donilon, who served as national security advisor during the Obama Administration. Donilon advised Joe Biden for decades and worked to boost Biden’s power in foreign policy.