Posted on 05/01/2020 8:20:17 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
I’m not kidding, folks. Watch the 2-minute clip below and tell me how Biden overcomes this. [Transcript follows]:
Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson Watch the Biden Campaign go up in flames in less than 60 seconds.@JoeBiden asked if his records can be searched for the name of the woman accusing him of grotesque sexual assault.
What happens next is the most painful thing I have ever seen broadcast on live TV.
It’s over now
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Transcript:
Mika: Why not approve a search of her name in those [Univ. of Delaware] records?
Biden: [3 second silence] Approve a search of her name.
Mika: Yes, and anything that might be related to Tara Reade in the University of Delaware records.
Biden: [2 second silence] There IS nothing. They wouldn’t, they, they’re not there. And if they ha, if, if its th, I, I, I, o, uh, you know, I don’t understand what y-, the point you’re trying to make.
Mika: The point I’m trying to make is…
Biden: There are no personal records by definition…
Mika: …you are…the point I’m trying to make is that you are approving and actually calling for a search at the National Archives records of everything pertaining to Tara Reade. [speaking sloooowwwwly now] I’m asking why not do the same in the University of Delaware records, which have raised questions [Biden shuts his eyes tightly now] because they were supposed to be revealed to the public and then they were sealed for a longer period of time. Why not do it for both sets of records?
Biden: Because th-, the material [rapid eye-blinking now] in th-the d, University of Delaware has no personnel files and it has, but it does have a lot of confidential conversations that I had with the President about a particular issue, that I had with the heads of state of other places…that that would not be something that would be revealed while I was in public office or while I was seeking public office. It just stands to reason…the best of my knowledge, no one else has done that either. [looks like he’s begging for sympathy at this point]
Mika: [Trying make it clear once again] I’m just talking about her name, not anybody else in those records, a search for that.
Biden: [5 seconds of silence]
Mika: [Tries yet again] Nothing’s classified, not with a president or anybody else. [Very sloooowly one more time] I’m just talking about a search for Tara Reade’s name, in the University of Delaware records.
Biden: [3 more seconds of silence, and rapid eye-blinking] Look, I’m, uh, I mean, who-who-who, you know, does that search? [Goes silent again]
Mika: [clearly frustrated that her efforts to do this idiot a favor are failing] The University of Delaware, uhhhh, perhaps you set up a commission that can do it? I don’t know, whatever is the fairest way to create the most transparency.
Biden: [groans] Well, this is… look. Mika. She says she filed a report. She has her employment records still. She said she filed a report with the only…
[End]
Wow.
To be clear, I had assumed this would be your classic effort by the fake news media to perform what the political pros refer to as an “inoculation interview.” That’s the process in which a candidate facing a tough issue sits down with a carefully-chosen corrupt interviewer like Mika to do a carefully-constructed interview in which the questions were all vetted in advance. The candidate provides carefully-worded answers drafted by staffers to those pre-approved questions, and the interview ends. The rest of the corrupt news media outlets then take the position that the questions have been “asked and answered,” and refuses to address them going forward on the ground that they are now “old news.”
In watching the interview, I still believe that was the plan going in, and things appeared to be going fairly smoothly until Biden chose to dissemble in answer to this particular, very simple question. I feel sure that Morning Mika fully expected Biden to answer with, “Sure, we can do that if you want to, but I already know that there’s no personnel records there – they’re all in the National Archives.” Something like that, anyway.
But he didn’t do that, and it obviously caught Mika off-guard.
It is also quite obvious that, midway through the interview, as Biden became increasingly incoherent, Mika suddenly realize that, oops, all those people who have been saying this guy is not right in the head are – gasp! – right. You can see it in her face and in the way she spends two solid minutes attempting to baby him through what is a very softball question with an easy answer, treating him at several points in the same way one would treat a 3 year-old toddler.
Thus, what was no doubt intended to be an inoculation interview suddenly turned into a potential death knell for a presidential campaign. These two minutes of video will now be used repeatedly, over and over and over again, by the Trump campaign and supporting Super PACs to flood the airwaves with ads that will devastate Biden if he ends up being the nominee.
Somewhere, Hillary Clinton is drafting the acceptance speech she will give after the big money Democrat donors convince Biden to hang it up in a month or so, and the DNC hands her its nomination for one final swing at the presidency.
Biden won’t be the nominee. Not after this.
That is all.
Come on guys. Biden was honest and direct when he said there are no records at UD. He just did not include the rest: any longer! There were sanitized earlier this year.
N-i-c-e catch.
Trump had better get those UofDel documents lickety split.
No one told my staff she was upset about it
a formal complaint
Upset enough to fire charges, anyway
made by or a complaint by Tara Reade against me at the time this allegedly happened
That week
27 years ago or until they I announced for pres...well I guess it was in April of May of this year.”
Really, all he's done in this section of text is to deny that she filed a formal complaint at the time.
There were sanitized earlier this year.
They were thoroughly cleansed long before they crossed into the State of DE.
It’s a strawman.
*** Paving the way for Big Mike. ***
Possibly. But not without a LOT of arm twisting. My read on ‘Mike’ is that she has never really worked a day in her life and, while smooth like her husband, is also totally lazy & incompetent. IOW’s the perfect Democrat candidate. Except she knows that she can’t go on permanent vacation like she did for her 8 years in the Obama White House.
We love precision in language!
LOL!
It does blow the mind, doesn’t it? :>)
And Slow Joe wasn’t prepared.
He is accused of rape.
And that is his best defense?
He will fake some health issue and drop out.
It’s gonna be Cankles, no wait Mooch, uh no Mark Cuban, nope Mini Mike.
Out of all these, at least mini mike won some primary votes... and a few delegates.
The dems just can’t wave a magic wand and put in anyone they want.
Any talk of that is just plain stupid.
The biden bots and the bernie bots were having a little tiff... (finish with your favorite meme...)
LOL. Someone will “ spike” his denture soaking glass.
Whoever has the most dirt on all the others, maybe.
reported on FOX this AM:
“Joe’s Biden’s campaign dispatched operatives to the University of Delaware’s library in the past year to rifle through his secretive Senate records there, Business Insider reported Thursday — raising the possibility they accessed documents related to Tara Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her when she worked for him in 1993.”
Your post nailed the gibberish but good.
So this is good for Democrats?
Not sure they can rerun Hillary. I don’t think they are that stupid. They need a surrogate who’s quasi-electable.
Excellent description of the “inoculation interview.” I had never actually known that it had a name. Yes, the media does that all the time where they pretend to cover an issue that’s bad for a democrat, declare the democrat 100% innocent, and then the book is closed.
The media is corrupt.
That’s all the press is looking for.
It seems like she only asked one question the whole time?
Expect no less
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