Posted on 05/19/2025 1:23:47 PM PDT by george76
Seriously, has anyone listened to the whole Hur audio? The establishment takeout that this is just about Joe Biden having pudding for brains is lazy and misses the deeper point, which is that the prosecutors had him cold on possessing classified documents he had no right to keep.
Biden lies and dissembles and filibusters and goes vague and mumbly at all the crucial points, with the help of lawyer Bob Bauer, who interrupts every time Joe might incriminate himself and laughs like a hyena when Joe gets feisty or cracks a sarcastic joke at the prosecutors’ expense.
It is vintage Biden, nasty, smarmy, and self aggrandizing. He tries to impress the lawyers in the room with exaggerated highlights of his subpar legal career. At one point he boasts about spending Thanksgiving in Nantucket handwriting a memo about Afghanistan to Obama to try to “save his ass”. Delusions of grandeur.
You can hear the prosecutors’ frustration – they’re in a straitjacket and with a strict time limit. He reminds them out of the gate that he has just been on the phone to Bibi Netanyahu talking about the Oct. 7 attack – the previous day — just so they know they are keeping him from more important business.
Bottom line is he absurdly lies throughout. He denies having kept classified material for his personal use. It is not something he would ever do because he’s so upright and honorable.
And yet the prosecutors found reams of it tucked away everywhere in his house, garage, and Penn Center office, along with Biden’s recorded admission to his ghostwriter that he had found classified material in his basement he could use for his memoir.
So they had a dilemma. Do they charge the sitting president and label him a pathological liar, causing a massive scandal and constitutional crisis? Or do they use his age and mental fog as an excuse not to charge him? Pretty clear which was the easier path.
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Here's the supposedly full audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewing President Joe Biden.
The segment released last night was cherry-picked to reflect a narrative that supports the Hur/DOJ's convenient conclusion that Biden was guilty but unfit for trial due to his cognitive deficits.
The full audio, by contrast, shows Biden in full command of the facts when it suited him but growing wary and vague and filibustering when he perceived that the prosecutors were building a trap. And in case he didn't detect it, his lawyer Bob Bauer would interrupt to alert him.
Merrick Garland and Robert Hur did not want to charge the sitting president, obviously, but they had too much incriminating evidence, such as classified material all over his home and office including from his days as senator, interviews his former aide Kathy Chung and a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, in February 2017, in which Biden said that he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs” in the basement of his Virginia home.
Hur's ingenious excuse leveraging Biden's cognitive issues got everyone off the hook.
There is much more to this story than the Biden-was-senile cover up. More importantly, Biden was corrupt -- and that is still being covered up.
Why? My guess is it's because the cover-up artists still work in the DOJ and they are now covering up their cover up under the noses of Trump's appointees.
Every purported “event” or item mentioned by Biden on those interview tapes needs to checked for validity ... including his use of the words “the” and “and”.
“I did not exonerate him” Robert Hurr…it’s pretty obvious Hurr was not going to get a conviction of a by the time of trial mid 80s democrat in that particular area. I didn’t agree with Hurr but it’s obvious he stood no chance of a guilty verdict on Joe
Biden is and always has been a thoroughly nasty piece of work. Here is further evidence of that, if such be needed. But, in the nick of time comes his diagnosis of stage 4 metastasized cancer, undoubtedly concealed throughout the final year of his presidency and only now revealed when Biden is in desperate need of a sympathy play and distraction from the mounting avalanche of proofs of his perfidy and corruption. The whole Biden saga leaves the worst possible taste in the national mouth.
It was all a put on dog & pony show for the investigators.
FAKE from the beginning.............
Life is grand. Enjoy the most that you can and
lelt the remainer go to hell in a hand basket.
JMO
It’s 10 minutes of questions with hours of non answers pretty much like the whole Biden residency.
So now that the tapes of the Biden interview are in the news, it was time for them to reveal he has stage 4 prostate cancer?
Ole Joe is close to facing a judge that won’t be played for a fool.
He broke the law, but now they won't prosecute a dying demented man.
I dislike this general attitude toward criminal investiogations, and I think I see it strongly so far in Trump’s second term —
Well, we would never get a conviction, so ...
Under these special circumstances or health issues, or similar issues, it seems pointless, so ...
People have been pardoned, so an investigation wouldn’t get us anywhere, so ...
Statute of limitations might be a factor, depending on how you squint, so let’s not bother to try ...
How about we just use government resources to find out the Truth and then tell people the Truth. Is that so unreasonable??
Of course he was also faking it and lying.
It’s possible to be a liar, moron and demented at the same time.
Biden himself brought up his dead son in that interview and then later got indignant blaming Hur for bringing it up......I don’t need to hear anything else.
How many of Biden’s attorneys sat in on that interview? They were there to keep the OM (old man) on track fact and timeline-wise I think ...
So, the point of “Axios”, a reputable source in Democrat circles, leaking the highly excerpted interview was to give credence to Joe’s cognitive decline, followed by the cancer play for sympathy?
I seriously doubt more than a few will actually listen the entire tape because it's the ramblings of lifelong sociopath who has lost his mental faculties.
I tried and tuned out in short order.
And in the interest of full disclosure, I am speaking as one who may be the only human being in existence not on acid who has actually listened to the entire two album set of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and remained more or less sane, proving I have a very high tolerance for random, pointless noise.
A sitting President lying to a Special Prosecutor is not a Constitutional crises.
It’s a crime.
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