Posted on 05/17/2024 7:54:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Sometimes we wonder if the Biden Democrats secretly admired some of Donald Trump’s stunts in the White House and decided that they could do them too when they were back in power. The latest example is President Biden’s dubious claim of executive privilege regarding his interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
Mr. Biden sat for an interview over two days with the special counsel about his mishandling of classified documents. A pair of House committees sought the transcript and audio recordings of the interview, and the White House turned over the transcript. But on Thursday the President asserted executive privilege over the audio tapes.......
The privilege claim is bogus on two grounds. First, once a President waives a privilege right, it can’t be reclaimed. Mr. Biden conceded that the interview wasn’t privileged, and there’s no legal basis to say that a recording is different from a transcript......
But Republicans want the audio to judge the tenor and credibility of Mr. Biden’s responses and Mr. Hur’s conclusion that the President’s faulty memory was cause not to bring an indictment in the case. The White House claim of privilege over the recordings isn’t intended to protect executive power. It’s intended to avoid presidential embarrassment.
That’s a political goal, not a legitimate legal justification. If Mr. Trump had tried this, he’d have been denounced far and wide. Mr. Biden deserves the same treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Joey trying to look tough and the swamp enabling him
It’s not like Joementia has been a dictator since day one or anything, c’mom man!
No way this is covered by executive privilege. It doesn’t fit in the work product or attorney client privileges either. I think he said investigatory privilege. But he’s not trying to protect the investigation. He’s trying to protect himself.
Biden wants to deep-six the infamous Hur tape since it shows Biden doing his “Kindly Old Man Act” to con Hur, and to keep himself out of jail.
.......we, the people, have seen Biden stumble and plod the WH lawn, fall up and down plane stairs, get lost on a 3’ podium, babble, slur his words, tell weird stories about cannibals...... underscoring that Biden is a mentally impaired, doddering, old coot — which was affirmed by Special Counsel Hur.
So Special Counsel Robert K. Hur must now be “surprised” that Biden-—who Hur said a jury would perceive as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” and thus be unlikely to convict -——is an aggressive eager debater, even meticulously setting the debate terms, appealing to voters who are anxious to reelect “an elderly man w/ a poor memory.”
Now Joenothing is into his “I’m a Trusted Beacon of Democrat Leadership Reelection Act.”
Must be almost time for his “Resurrect My Dead War Hero Son Act,” a proven vote-getter any moron in Delaware can tell ya.
:apropos of nothing:
Mean tweets, of course!
Hmmm... what if the recording doesn’t match the transcript?
He thinks and acts like a dictator.
<>there’s no legal basis to say that a recording is different from a transcript.<>
I guarantee the recording is different from the transcript.
This the Hunter Biden Laptop equivalent they can’t suppress.
They know its release will torpedo FJB’s reelection.
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