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"I Give You My Word, I Was Not," Biden Claims No Knowledge of Raid on Giuliani (Greenfield)
FrontPage Mag ^ | April 30, 2021 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/01/2021 6:28:44 AM PDT by texas booster

"I Give You My Word, I Was Not," Biden Claims No Knowledge of Raid on Giuliani

Fri Apr 30, 2021

Daniel Greenfield

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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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To: robel

I believe him when e says he will get into trouble for saying or doing something he shouldn’t.


21 posted on 05/01/2021 6:57:57 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: texas booster
Joe is telling the truth on this.

He is just a figurehead, as it might be the Queen of England. That he is the president is as much of a fiction as the assertion he was elected.

There is no real president, just the Democrat collective.

22 posted on 05/01/2021 7:09:57 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: texas booster

I am not sure which is worse: he didn’t know or he did know.


23 posted on 05/01/2021 7:12:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: null and void

—”I’d guess he was telling the truth here”

Slow Jamoke is unsure what he ate for breakfast.


24 posted on 05/01/2021 7:14:43 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: texas booster

Doesn’t matter. Whether millions vote for GOP or millions vote for Dems, Wray is director of FBI.


25 posted on 05/01/2021 7:16:13 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: texas booster
"I Give You My Word, I Was Not," Biden Claims No Knowledge of Raid on Giuliani

You are President and the buck stops with you. You should send a twat firing them. Either they told you or they didn't. Either way it's real bad.

26 posted on 05/01/2021 7:16:43 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: texas booster

Buy Dung probably ordered the raid, but forgot minutes later.


27 posted on 05/01/2021 7:18:49 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Der Impfstoff macht frei.)
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To: texas booster

And there is no evidence that Hitler had knowledge of the extermination of the Jews. So by Democrat standards (and by extension, the numerous Jews who back them), Hitler is obviously innocent.


28 posted on 05/01/2021 7:19:24 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: texas booster

And we all know what biden’s word has always been worth....


29 posted on 05/01/2021 7:22:15 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: texas booster

>>>”I Give You My Word,”<<<

The Demented one’s word is every bit as good as Hillary’s, or Pelosi’s, or Obama’s, or . . . ANY of the commiecrats.


30 posted on 05/01/2021 7:23:20 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: texas booster

Hi.

As everyone on this forum knows, I’m the queen of England.

I give you my word...

5.56mm


31 posted on 05/01/2021 7:36:01 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: TalBlack

I can believe that no one told him about the raid in advance. He might have blurted it out like with his statement before the election that his campaign had a large voter fraud organization.


32 posted on 05/01/2021 7:47:15 AM PDT by myerson
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To: robel

He has no words except the ones scripted FOR him!


33 posted on 05/01/2021 7:48:04 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: texas booster

Maybe Biden didn’t know. He’s a figurehead. He says and does what the cabal behind him tells him to do. He knows what they want him to know.


34 posted on 05/01/2021 8:06:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (“Morality, like a chameleon, tends to take on the color of the circumambient society.” P. Yogananda)
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To: texas booster

Wanna bet that XXX is lying ?


35 posted on 05/01/2021 8:09:32 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: texas booster

He was told and ordered the search. He’s a filthy liar.


36 posted on 05/01/2021 8:11:19 AM PDT by Lucky2 (Biden is NOT my president.)
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To: TalBlack; Gay State Conservative; robel; Eddie01; Flick Lives; DOC44; Mr. K; elpadre; dead; ...
Senate Republicans Just Handed Matches to Arsonist

On Wednesday, 48 Republican senators—including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and two former chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee—voted to confirm Lisa Monaco as Biden's deputy attorney general. (Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas voted no.)

Monaco, as I explained here, is an Obama confidante who played a key role in perpetuating the myth about Russian collusion both before and after the 2016 election. The former chief of staff to Robert Mueller when he headed Obama's FBI and then Obama's homeland security advisor, Monaco has been a harsh critic of Trump and Republican policies over the past four years. She backs a “whole of government” approach to combating domestic terrorists, code for Americans who support Donald Trump.

Not a single Republican senator should have supported Monaco's nomination. Her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month should have featured GOP senators demanding answers about her involvement in the collusion hoax and assurances she would not use her broad authority to keep targeting people on the Right. GOP members should have blasted the department's already abusive investigation into January 6 and warned that continued overreach would face concerted push back.

Those same recriminations and threats should have been repeated from the Senate floor before the full vote. ...

In fact, on the same day Monaco was confirmed, the Justice Department announced the arrest of yet another nonviolent January 6 protester charged with 10 counts of various trespassing and disorderly conduct offenses.

We know that Biden knows nothing, sees nothing and does nothing. Here is one of the people behind him that is so far left that he looks moderate.

The Pubbies should not even vote for anyone that the Harris administration proposes - it doesn't matter anyway, and all they are doing is adding fig leaves to a naked emperor.

37 posted on 05/01/2021 8:14:04 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

I believe him.

He is on a need to know basis with his Staff.

In this case, he didn’t need to know.


38 posted on 05/01/2021 8:15:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: texas booster

Hell - Joe ain’t aware (knowledgeable) of his own name half the time...


39 posted on 05/01/2021 8:29:08 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: texas booster

I’d believe plugs on this. like Rush said, there’s an army of loyal leftists in our institutions, they understand their mission is to screw with the other side and they will be given cover for whatever they do as long as it advances the revolution


40 posted on 05/01/2021 8:35:00 AM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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