Posted on 05/06/2024 4:12:33 PM PDT by Libloather
Republicans will move to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, DailyMail.com confirmed, after the Department of Justice refused to hand over audio tapes of Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
The attorney general had until April 8 to hand over requested materials from Robert Hur's interviews with Biden that led him to conclude the president is 'elderly' and 'well-meaning' but has a 'poor memory.'
They subpoenaed transcripts, notes, audio and video files largely related to Hur's interview.
While the DOJ has handed over transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden as well as the transcript and audio recordings of an interview with Biden's ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, Republicans are unsatisfied.
They have insisted they need audio from Hur's interview too.
But nearly a month after the deadline to send the audio tapes passed, the House Judiciary Committee is now moving to hold Garland in contempt of Congress, DailyMail.com confirmed.
The Judiciary committee will hold a markup of the contempt hearing on May 16.
The DOJ, however, said in an April letter to the GOP committee chairmen that the department had already been 'extraordinarily' accommodating in giving up the Biden transcript.
They said releasing audio as well might make it harder for prosecutors to secure recorded interviews in the future, with witnesses knowing they could be blasted out into the public.
'The Committees have already received the extraordinary accommodation of the transcripts, which gives you the information you say you need,' the letter, written by assistant attorney general Carlos Uriarte, read.
'To go further by producing the audio files would compound the likelihood that future prosecutors will be unable to secure this level of cooperation. They might have a harder time obtaining consent to an interview at all. It is clearly not in the public interest to...
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President Retard is too senile to prosecute even though he’s corrupt
“Dems don’t care. Look at Holder, he was held in contempt and just laughed.”
Well, surely an attorney general would take contempt of congress seriously. It’s obstruction of an official proceeding, which, if you are Donald Trump or the poor schmucks who walked around the capitol building, could get you 20 years in jail.
But as a famous person once said, laws are for the little people — and Donald Trump and anyone who supports him.
4. Jump up and down as if you are angry and then do nothing.
At this point - whether it was ever actually recorded or not - the tape surely no longer exists. He can’t admit that, so he has to stonewall.
BTTT
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