Posted on 02/08/2024 2:47:31 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — President Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” special counsel Robert Hur found in a bombshell report released Thursday — though Hur recommended against criminal charges, in part because a jury might view Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden, 81, flouted legal restrictions on keeping sensitive documents throughout his 36 years in the Senate and eight years as vice president — stashing them in cardboard boxes in his garage in Wilmington, Del., and other locations, the 388-page report said, with photos showing Biden’s storage practices.
Investigators even uncovered a recording of Biden confiding in his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in April 2017, three months after leaving the vice presidency, that he still had official records because “I didn’t want to turn them in” — sounding similar to former President Donald Trump, who faces 40 criminal charges and up to 450 years in prison for resisting handing over documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
Zwonitzer also told Hur’s investigators that he deleted some audio files of Biden after the special counsel investigation began — and was aware of the probe when he did so.
“I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation,” the writer said, according to the report.
‘Elderly man with a poor memory’ Material mishandled by Biden involved the nation’s most guarded secrets, the report said, with authorities finding “information in [recovered] notebooks [that] remains classified up to the Top Secret level and includes Sensitive Compartmented Information, including from compartments used to protect information concerning human intelligence sources.”
But, perhaps most damaging for the president, Hur — a former Maryland US attorney — suggested that jurors would not hold Biden liable for his actions on account of his perceived mental decline, even though he is
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Serious??
yes. just announced on FNC.
Did they really say he was too old and feeble minded to commit a crime?
My impression was that they were saying that they wouldn’t indict him because a jury would convict such an old scatterbrain.
He took those documents when he was VP which was over 7 years ago. Are they saying he was mentally deficient then as well? So democrats had no issue with a VP with mental problems and no problem with him as POTUS
If that’s the case, it’s time to 25th amendment the slob.
He actually “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report says.
Man, this is beyond bad. He doesn’t even realize he’s president! The cabinet is supposed to go to the Congress and formally declare that a president should resign because he is incapacitated. When is somebody going to do their duty and get rid of this walking dead carcass? The country’s security is at stake.
Biden the Chin.
But him being President of the United States with his finger literally on the button of 10,000 nuclear weapons is just fine.
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Exactly
Gingrich is suggesting big Mike or someone else, e.g., the governor of Pennsylvania. He recently gave his budget speech in the PA capitol building, a very imposing building, with everyone assembled sitting below him looking up at him. The Republican leader in the PA Senate said the whole thing was posed to make Josh Shapiro look presidential. The commentators are marveling about how well he speaks, how charming and personable he is. Democrats are looking for someone like this and Shapiro is positioning himself to be available.
This is the plan. Democrats are lining up substitutes even as we speak. They will coalesce around a candidate during their convention and that’s who will face Trump. So, all of the Trump acolytes chortling about how easy it will be for their boy to beat Biden, quoting polls, etc., are missing the boat as usual. Trump won’t be facing Biden.
I think it would be Beshear.
If Speaker Johnson doesn’t immediately call for Impeachment Hearings he needs to removed.
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Meanwhile, he's our president?
This is and always has been the obama admin 3.0 and by admin, I mean the same people as his WH admin, ValJar and all the rest, plus obama himself. The dems are a collective, like the borg.
Lol @ #BelieveHur
They might as well declare one of Biden’s dogs to be POTUS.
“Zwonitzer also told Hur’s investigators that he deleted some audio files of Biden after the special counsel investigation began — and was aware of the probe when he did so”
So when is he being indicted?
Oh yea, that’s right.
Never.
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“Gavin Greaseball and Big Mike are saying to themselves that funding the DOJ report was money well spent. Now those two can fight it out for the nomination at the DNC Convention.”
We’ve been taken by the DNC Plotters—but EXACTLY right!
i’m starting to sense the necessity of a White House Basement campaign for Dementia Joe given the devastating assessment of D.J.’s mental health by Special Prosecutor Hur ...
In fact, i don’t see how it’s makes sense for Democrats to put D.J. up for reelection given Hur’s report ... D.J. is bound to be in even WORSE shape mentally six months from now ...
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