Posted on 06/05/2024 12:24:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
White House officials and President Biden’s allies went on the attack against The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday after the news outlet published a report on the president’s performance in private meetings headlined “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping.”
Democrats rallied to Biden’s defense and took issue with key parts of the story, blasting the Journal for largely citing the accounts of Republican officials who had spent time with the president, including former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.).
Several White House aides shared a lengthy segment from MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in which the hosts excoriated the Journal story as a hit piece.
“I’ve spent time with both of those guys privately. Spent time with Biden and Trump privately. I’ve spent time with every House Speaker over the past 30 years. And Joe Biden, I’m not just — it’s just not close,” host Joe Scarborough said.
“If you want to talk about international affairs, if you want to talk about how to get bipartisan legislation, Joe Biden is light-years ahead of all of them,” he continued. “And the fact that The Wall Street Journal knew these quotes were out there, that editors — I’m not looking at the reporter. People always blame the reporter. … I don’t even know what to say. I really don’t even know what to say here.”
The Journal story was based on interviews with 45 people over several months, including Democrats and Republicans who were in meetings with Biden or briefed on them. The story cites examples of Biden reading from notes in meetings on Ukraine aid, sometimes deferring questions to aides and at times speaking too softly to be audible or closing his eyes.
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Why won’t they release the tape?
“Why won’t they release the tape?”
Tricky Dicky accidently taped over it
With all his impromptu press conferences his competence is readily apparent.
I heard President Retard reading a teleprompter yesterday and he sounded like a moron with marbles in his mouth
They didn’t expect that.
Nah.
/s
he may be worse than he was yesterday
but he is better than he will be tomorrow
Only people who don’t fear being arrested see reality. That is the pathetic state of our “government”.
The debate on June 27 will be interesting.
It will never happen.
Why won’t Biden have an actual press conference, the first of his presidency? Because he is demented.
Not a single (unrehearsed, free form, lengthy) press conference - that should be all the evidence anyone needs.
“Spent time with Biden and Trump privately”... many years ago.
Waiting for Bob Woodward’s book outlining all of this.
Strom Thurmond II.
Will the ‘Wall Street Journal’ be raided first by the FBI or the IRS?
The article doesn’t say.
Ping to post #9 and #11
Yet every day new videos comes out on YouTube showing public occasions where Brandon gets lost in mid sentence, repeats himself, or reads stage directions, “Pause” from his teleprompter.
pjmedia.com
Biden Admin Tampered With Evidence, Altered Biden’s Hur Interview Transcript
By MATT MARGOLIS | 1:55 PM ON JUNE 03, 2024, pjmedia.com
The Biden Justice Department claims that the reason it doesn’t want to release the audio of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur is because it’s worried about AI deepfakes.
“Disclosure of that record is unwarranted,” the DOJ said in a court filing. “Release of the audio recording would threaten critical law enforcement interests by chilling the potential cooperation of witnesses in current and future sensitive investigations. In addition, disclosure would constitute a significant invasion of privacy. ... These privacy harms are amplified by the threat of malicious manipulation of audio files that has recently become much more acute.”
That sounds suspect, don’t you think? So what is the real reason? Perhaps it’s because the White House tampered with evidence.
According to Judicial Watch, the White House has admitted that it manipulated the public transcript of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur to make Biden appear more mentally competent.
Judicial Watch announced that the White House admitted in a federal court that the transcript of President Joe Biden’s testimony to Special Counsel Robert Hur is not accurate and is missing “filler words (such as ‘um’ or ‘uh’)” and words that “may have been repeated when spoken (such as ‘I, I’ or ‘and, and’)” which were sometimes “only listed a single time in the transcripts.”
Here’s what the DOJ filing says: 14. The interview transcripts are accurate transcriptions of the words of the interview contained in the audio recording, except for minor instances such as the use of filler words (such as “um” or “uh”) when speaking that are not always reflected on the transcripts, or when words may have been repeated when spoken (such as “I, I” or “and, and”) but sometimes was only listed a single time in the transcripts.
Besides these exceedingly minor differences, based on my simultaneous review of the transcripts while listening to the audio recording, the transcripts accurately capture the words spoken during the interview on the audio recording with no material differences between the audio recording and transcripts. None of the minor differences include any audible substantive exchanges – that is, based on my review, there is no material omission of words be tween the audio recording and transcripts.
Special Counsel Hur and FBI personnel who attended the interview and compared the audio recording to the transcripts also informed me of their determination that the transcripts accurately reflect the words spoken on the audio recording aside from the minor instances I described above. Special Counsel Hur emphasized to me that it was important for purposes of his investigation that the interview transcripts be accurate.
The DOJ can claim the differences between the audio and the transcript are “exceedingly minor differences,” but seriously, who do they think they’re fooling?
Link: Is Joe Biden Getting Into Witness Tampering Now?
“Wow. Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit forced the Biden team to admit what everyone suspected – that the transcript is not accurate and was changed in a way to help Biden,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “There is nothing ordinary about this, and the transcript inaccuracy issues seem to help Biden’s political campaign needs. We today initiated a new FOIA request on this Biden’s Nixonian tape scandal.”
Now it all makes sense. If you read the Hur transcripts, you likely thought they were damning enough, but how much worse is the audio? It’s no mistake that the Biden administration is so aggressively fighting the release of the audio.
And all the kings horses and all The Kings men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again...
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