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.
Trust Joe?
I do not trust one damned thing federal gub mint.
IIRC, he said he didn’t know anything about the Flynn investigation and it turned out he suggested the Logan Act be pursued.
Sure Joe.
Sure Joe, nod nod, wink wink, I believe you, just as much as I believed slick willy when he said he did not have sexual relations with that woman, sure, nod nod, wink wink.
Yes, Biden's always been a liar and a plagiarizer... but the FBI and DOJ weren't always corrupt...
LOL, GMTA! I posted the same thing!
More like
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Hillary Clinton.”
Now THAT I would believe.
BuckFiden's word isn't even worth plugged nickle.
“I give you my word” is the new Nixonian “Let me make this perfectly clear”
Being demented does have its benefits. You can say, “I have no knowledge”, and be telling the truth. Even if you did have knowledge.
Whether he knew or not, the REAL question that should have been asked was “do you approve of the raid?”
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!
This man got 81 million votes! And his word is as trustworthy as John Kerrys, which is as trustworthy as Jenn Psaki, which is as trustworthy as Merrick Garland, which is as trustworthy as Barak Obama, which is as trustworthy as Bill Clinton, which is as trustworthy as Hillary Clinton......
No thanks. I don't need to be buried in a cascade of "I", "I", "I", etc.
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