Posted on 05/01/2021 6:28:44 AM PDT by texas booster
Fri Apr 30, 2021
Everything new is old again.
And that includes the familiar Obama excuse. A line so tired and implausible that it became a hoary cliche even to the media. And that line was usually some variation, "I found out when you did from watching the news."
The line is back.
President Joe Biden said he was not told in advance about the FBI’s execution of search warrants at the New York City home and office of Rudy Giuliani, one of former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers.
“I give you my word, I was not” briefed beforehand, Biden told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin in an interview that aired Thursday.
“I learned about that last night when the rest of the world learned about it, my word,” Biden said of early Wednesday’s raids, in which FBI agents seized electronic devices from the former New York mayor and ex-federal prosecutor.
“I had no idea this was underway.”
Is he telling the truth? Could be.
We're talking about a guy who's not firing on all cylinders on his best days. His staffers seem determined to keep him from answering questions from reporters out of fear that he'll blurt out something horribly inappropriate. Kamala Harris handles his calls with foreign leaders.
Is the FBI going to brief Biden about a raid on President Trump's lawyer?
Biden's problem though isn't making damaging admissions. It's spewing random word salads that reveal he's not quite all there. Still I don't see Wray and Merrick Garland trying to brief Biden on something he really doesn't need to know about for his own good.
Presidents don't need to know about political hits being carried out against their political opponents by their plumbers in the government.
The question isn't whether Biden was briefed on the raid. The question is the double standard in which Hunter Biden, Bernie Sanders' wife, and Hillary Clinton, among other top Democrats, get a pass from the feds, while they aggressively go after Republicans.
The Biden administration doesn't even need to do very much except send the message that they're fair game.
This is a political machine in the DOJ, the FBI, and local offices that was cranked up under Obama and then supercharged during the Trump administration to target political opponents.
Biden doesn't need to be briefed about what the machine is doing. But the machine's operatives expect support and political cover from the Biden administration and AG Garland when the inevitable requests for Congressional hearings are made. And I imagine the key players have been briefed enough just to be able to claim plausible deniability.
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Your word isn’t worth shit joe. You’re a fake a liar and a fruad. You stole your office. YOU aren’t worth shit, Joe.
The question is why anyone would take Biden for his word.
Plugs has also given us his word that he’s not “The Big Guy”.
When a politician gives you his or her word, what ever is in question is a lie.
Biden’s mind, never industrial strength to begin with, has rotted out, but the malice toward his political “enemies” remains as strong as ever.
“Your word isn’t worth shit joe.”
Well said sir. Neither Joe or his word is worth a shit.
Joe Biden has an established track record from his 50 years in WDC - he is a prolific liar, always has been.
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much”
Shakespeare sure had a way of expressing a complex thought in so very few words
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
Ask Obama...
Why would he know? FBI doesn’t run their investigations through the president. And since most raid are the result of months or even years of prep investigations this was going on under Trump. Do you think they told him?
His word and $5.00 buys you a cup of Starbucks
They told him, he just forgot.
I'd guess he was telling the truth here, despite being told, he was not aware of it.
Mom has dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Many, many times she is not aware of something that just happened or something she's been told about several times.
In a just world, he'd be out to pasture (25th Amendment), Kamala would be disqualified (not an NBC, just an anchor baby, no citizen parents) and the Speaker of the house would rise to her rightful place on the throne...
He’s either lying or he’s an idiot. Or maybe he’s a lying idiot.
Did they ask him if he would have allowed it if told?
The word of a liar doesn’t mean anything.
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