The presidential debate last night was chilling to watch as President Joe Biden clearly struggled to retain his focus and, at points, seemed hopelessly confused. The winner was clear: Special Counsel Robert Hur. For months, Democrats in Congress and the media have attacked Hur for his report that the president came across as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur concluded that prosecuting Biden would be difficult because a jury would view him as a sympathetic figure of a man with declining mental capabilities. That was evident last night and the question is whether a man who was too diminished to be a criminal defendant can still be a president for four more years.
Hur laid out evidence that President Biden had unlawfully retained and mishandled classified evidence for decades. However, he also concluded that “at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” He found that “it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
What has followed is the usual pile-on in the media with legal analysts, press, and pundits denouncing Hur for his findings.
Hur likely does not anticipate any apologies even as commentators on CNN and MSNBC admit that there are now unavoidable questions of Biden’s ability to be the nominee.
Democrats have repeatedly insisted that Hur did not find Biden diminished and that he actually was impressed by his memory and mental acuity. Hur contradicted that in his own testimony before Congress.
Indeed, the denial campaign took on a bizarre character, particularly when Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) insisted that Hur “exonerated” Biden. Hur pushed back:“I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, ‘exoneration.’ That is not a word that is used in my report and that is not a part of my task as a prosecutor.”
Jayapal shot back, “You exonerated him.”
Hur responded, “I did not exonerate him. That word does not appear in the report.”
The debate also further undermines the ridiculous effort of the Biden Administration to continue to withhold the audiotape of the Hur interview as privileged (despite saying that the transcript is not privileged).
The debate showed not only what Hur saw but why the Justice Department is making a clearly laughable privilege claim to delay any release of the audiotape until after the election.
Look, there is much more to the refusal
To hand over the tapes than that they expose what we ALREADY knew to be true about Joe.
Its because the transcript is a complete FABRICATION. And Merrick Harland is responsible for doctoring it.
They actually expect us to believe that Joe sat for several hours and answered questions without the characteristic stumbling and bumbling. Right.
Now that its all but assured Trump is going to win, you can bet that recording will disappear down the same hole as the J6 documents and video.
“ It’s because the transcript is a complete FABRICATION. And Merrick Harland is responsible for doctoring it.”
Sure it is. Because you “know”.
Cite your evidence liar.
If the transcript matched the audio, why won’t they release it
Not really hard to connect the dots
They are not obligated to provide the video. It has no relevance to the investigation. All they want is to use the footage for campaign material.
“All they want is to use the footage for campaign material.”
Why doesnt Biden use it for campaign material, Svelaz?
According to him, Hur lied.
What better way to prove it?
Give it up bro. You lose.
LOL its like a broken record here. Every day you do this to George. He acts like no one here has any ability to reason. I guess thats what he is used to in his bubble?
Yes they are
Nixon vs Fitzgerald
This is not a close call
Does not matter why they want it
Frankly right now the impeachment and prosecution of Merit Garland is a perfectly good reason
You do not seem to realize the damage last night went far beyond Biden
It also took out what little credibility you have left
And everyone else that has been covering this up
George, cite the evidence that it’s NOT a fabrication.
And then after you’ve written your blah blah blah
do something to help the tapes be released to back up your claims.
You can’t prove a negative. The evidence is on the tapes that are being withheld and as long as they keep doing it suspicion and speculation are warranted
Res ipsa loquitur
You saw the evidence last night. Need a link?
Every video of Pedo Joe from the last 2 years is evidence. Shall I post them all?
Are you seriously arguing that somehow Biden spoke differently during those interviews? LIAR
Do you have a house boat on that river? Denial
Evidence: Last night
George, perennial Democrat Kluxxer racist and lying police state fascist tried this: Cite your evidence liar.
Merrick Garland already said as part of claiming executive privilege in response to House demands for the tape – as though oversight committees can’t do oversight and as though Biden hadn’t already surrendered any executive privilege – that they had made some “minor” changes to the transcript provided to the oversight committee to remove “meaningless” parts of the interview.
Cite your evidence that Merrick Garland isn’t as much a proud pathological liar as you and Bribery Biden are.
Most probably
We all knew about biden, but now the DNC has a legitimate trope to use to replace him as they knew years ago that they would need do. Their problem, now, is that there bench is empty and they need find someone who will, willingly, replace obama’s puppet and act accordingly. Just who could that be?
What one should find amazing is that with almost 300 million in population the demoncrat “bench” is empty.
Maybe a Haitian whose children Hillary stole and trafficked, or some other unqualified mostly foreigner with a disability and unknown genderness, a stutter, a few brain aneurysms, many abortions in the past (could still be a man of course), and definitely with visibly and unvisibly missing body parts.
The tape is still irrelevant. The president can still invoke executive privilege. The only reason they want the tape is purely for campaign purposes.
Trump still has issues. He’s still a convicted felon and his constant lying isn’t winning any new supporters.
come back to the real world and throw off that indoctrinated haze that is the sure sign of TDS (and you know that there are treatment centers that can cure you of that mental illness before it totally turns your grey matter into mush).
^^^^ phase 3, denial
Two questions for Svelaz-George
How does one pay off $8 trillion in debt with $500 billion?
How many young women are there out there being raped by their sisters?
That 500 billion being over ten years, so only 50 billion a year average, most coming in the latter years.
So anyone believe bidens massive tax hike on the wealthy won’t destroy a lot more than 50 billion a year in GDP and also more than that in wages for Americans ? Of course not, anyone who thinks about it knows better.
“The only reason they want the tape is purely for campaign purposes.”
At this point, you’re goddam right it is. And maybe Garland should be charged next year for an improper campaign contribution for conspiring with Biden to hide derogatory information to promote an election. Sound familiar?
What happened to “the American people have a right to know who they are voting for”?
Or maybe that was your cubicle mate Gigi who said that.
No George he can’t. He waived that when the transcripts were released.
Then there’s the SCOTUS decision in NY Times vs. United States. While not directly related, one fact… that the probative nature of the material trumps all.
Biden would lose the lawsuit, but it would delay the release until after the election and he would have left office.
History will not be kind to both Obama and Biden. The truth will come out.
-G
Nixon vs Fitzgerald
On what lawful basis can a President allow a transcript to be released but declare the actual audio falls under executive privilege? There is none. It’s lawless. Biden’s DOJ is effectively giving the public its middle finger, telling us to F off, and if we don’t like it, sue them. If taxpayers sue, then the DOJ will use the taxpayer money the government confiscated from the taxpayers to fight the DOJ’s meritless case in court.
Yours is the dumbest argument I have ever heard anyone try to make.
As usual, as a Democrat you project onto Republicans what Democrats are guilty of. YOU WANT TO HIDE THE AUDIO FOR CAMPAIGN POLITICAL PURPOSES. You fear that if the public hears how their President answer questions (the fades, the mumbles, the incoherence, etc.) that the public will rightly realize Biden’s brain has turned into pudding.
You do not seem to grasp that when the emporers is seen naked
The character assination of those who were speaking truth to power falls flat
The DOJ or more commonly known as the biden family strongman mob arm already admitted they doctored the transcript by taking and the umms uhhhs and duhs and other vocal dumb dumbs out of bidens failure to comply so we want the full monte to see how much they covered up for the old fool.
What most people have missed is hur said biden “presented himself as” and old doddering mental moron with good intentions.
The presentation being false, of course, in other words biden was lying, near constantly.
We know how the demoncrat criminal gang works, lie steal cheat then do it some more covering it up by doing it some more, then falsely accusing your opponent of doing far less or nothing compared to your own massive in public criminal misdeeds and taking it to the grave kept from the public while you snicker and toast to your vile corruption at marthas vineyard out of the public eye, your duping delight off the charts adding to the sometimes waning adrenachrome effects.
Is there a word in German that is like ” Schadenfreude” but super hopped up on Adderall or crack cocaine…thank goodness Biden was styling and profiling in his slim fit Depends
Im not a neurologist but this clip of Biden is heart breaking. The stress, confusion, public failure, ridicule, and humiliation this poor man is enduring are going to worsen his pathology. Jill Biden should be protecting her husband, and not be the cause of his condition to deteriorate never mind on stage for all to see.
PRESIDENT BIDEN:
Look, there’s so many young women who have been, including a young woman who just was murdered, and he went to the funeral. The idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming in, they talk about that. But here’s the deal. There’s a lot of young women being raped by their in-laws, by their spouses, brothers and sisters, by, it’s just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them on the cross state line —
DANA BASH, CNN: Thank you.
He was talking about himself and his daughter. She fought to get her journal back because it detailed his incestuous pedo act. Remember that.
Its sad and elder abuse. Doktor Jill should be arrested for that.
-G
Neither am I a physician but the White House physician has a lot to answer for. This performance was indeed heartbreaking for someone that does not care for the Biden administration’s policies. This is not good for our country.
Estovir-you consistently show a good heart in what you write and I appreciate the empathy that you show. In 99% of cases I would have no disagreement with you. We all have families that have their problems and tragedies, bad decisions, failures sometimes not of our making. But in this case I would suggest you save your empathy. This family is a group that would put some legitimate crime families to shame. Joe was never a “nice man” and he made his own decisions in using his elected office for unsavory means and used other people for his own benefit and contributed to the destruction of other individuals simply because they were opponents. Many say he was a friend to many other senators and congressman but one wonders if that is really much of a vote of confidence. Sketchy at best. His present wife seems to fit him to a T. As he has used others, he is being used. Seems almost biblical.
Save your sympathy and compassion. What Evil Jill and Crooked Joe are putting the country through to desperately cling to power (that they are ABUSING) is a NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS. This evil man puts the welfare of the country LAST –every single time. The man deserves NO sympathy, NO compassion. None. He is harming the country and making us all unsafe. Biden’s lawless, out-of-control authoritarian regime is now targeting more than half of the voters in the country as “extremists” and “security threats.” Biden is the extremist. Biden is the security threat. The words ‘honor’ and ‘decency’ should never appear next to the name Biden.
Marshal Blucher as his Prussians charged Napoleon’s forces at Waterloo: “No pity! I’ll shoot the first man I see with pity in his eyes.”
Doesn’t even come close to breaking my heart. I’m enjoying it. Biden is a lifelong career politician/criminal who has spent his entire adult life lying and selling out his constituants. Any suffering or humiliation (assuming he remains capable of perceiving such) is more than richly deserved.
Estovir, I agree with you all the time and I truly enjoy your comments but he is NOT “that poor man”. He is the crook that is having his opponent put on trial, the crook that is having ELDERLY abortion protesters jailed, he is the scumbag that is selling out Israel to appease a few radicals in his party, he is the man that single handedly allowed in 10 million illegals that will most likely never be removed. He is not “that poor man” he is the guy ruining our country.
Look, there’s so many young women who have been, including a young woman who just was murdered, and *he* he went to the funeral. *And uhh* the idea that she was murdered *by, by* , by an immigrant coming in,* to,* to talk about that. But here’s the deal. There’s a lot of *oo woo* young women being raped *by their*, by their in-laws, *by their* , by their spouses, *mhhp mhpp* brothers and sisters, by, *ouh* it’s just, it’s just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them *’en* they cross state lines
ftfy
Ten bidumb mumbles mistakes and duplications, and average a TWO PER SENTENCE.
I missed astericking one, eleven mistakes in 29 seconds of slow mumbling bidumb
Biden’s debate performance was certainly disappointing. It was awful. But so was Trump’s. He was lying constantly and rambled as usual. What occurred was a debate between two old geezers.
I am not entirely surprised. I’m sure republicans will pounce on Biden’s poor performance with glee. However, it’s still not a complete game changer since it’s still way too early to predict with certainty what the outcome will be.
Lying doesnt mean what you think it does, lying paid Troll
Lying is always an issue with conservatives, even Turley. If Trump was relying on a lot of falsehoods to make himself look more…relevant. It was so blatantly obvious that it didn’t come across as sincere. He’s not changing any minds according to polls post debate.
Polls post debate. Lmao you idiot
If someone with a reputation for truth said that. I would care
When do people quit believing you ?
After the first lie?
The tenth ?
The thousandth?
George, it seems many of the Dems are also ‘pouncing’ on his poor performance.
Going by all of the articles/opinion pieces this morning saying he needs to be replaced.
You could hear the votes just draining away every time Biden spoke last night.
Replacing Biden at this time is close to impossible
Even if Biden bows out tomorrow this will disrupt the election prep and laws in all 50 states
The reason for the virtual convention is that democrats created legal problems by holding the convention in august
Every lefty crying in his coffee this morning keeps talking about trumps lies.
Please lets have the list. Factual lies, not bull shit hyperbole and opinion that you didnt like.
Who lied about the tax cuts that are about to expire. Costing households under 250k another 2 grand a year.
Who lied about rape and incest?
Who lied about paying 8T with 500B
Who lied about the authenticity of the laptop?
Who lied about inflation, that reached 9%, 14 months into office?
Who lied and said trump told oeople to inject bleach.
Who lied about what pelosi said ON VIDEO
who lied about Charlottesville again, even after Snopes?
Who lied and claimed that border crossings are now lower than under Trump?
Who lied and said that insulin costs $15?
And possibly the worst one.
Who lied and said that no military have been killed since he took office?
The same guy who looked at his watch, as the coffins passed by
Dude,
So many facts, so little time.
Joe is a professional politician. He doesn’t lie unless its under oath.
(That’s a lawyer joke… they merely misspoke. )
Hey George, did you seen Biden’s surprise when Trump RIGHTLY said that the Charlottesville “good people…” on both sides has been debunked? Snopes, a far left “fact checker” just last week decreed that it was false and yet Biden still LIED about it. Probably because nobody let him see the truth.
Biden also LIED when he did the whole “bloodbath” thing when it has been proven that Trump was talkingabout the auto industry.
Biden lied on top of being a dementia patient and all the Dems have is to call Trump a liar.
@George: Re: “But so was Trump’s”: Forever bloated with hyperbole and bluster, Trump will never be a thoughtful, clever, and reserved public speaker with a fountain of concise and accurate facts at his fingertips. There must be thousands of citizens out there, and a few herein as well, possessing the aforementioned capacity, who could have stood in his stead and hoisted Biden on his own petard last night, hammering away at a laundry list of policies and abuses, enabled by this Administration, which have turned this nation upside down and inside out.
Imagine if that had been Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio up there with Biden? Or even JD Vance or Byron Donalds?
That bloodbath would have been hard to watch.
Why should we trust your assessment of Trump
When you have been wrong about everything for a decade
Biden’s performance last night only proves why the DOJ will not release the tapes. It will confirm what we saw last night. Mumbling, bumbling, incoherent. And that is who is supposedly leading America. Obviously, who really is running the WH? Seems they are just faking to make it for as long as they can. Guess what, after last night, what all us normal people have known and been saying for years is now indisputable. How will the DNC, MSM spin it? How will they try to say they did not know all this time when we all have been saying it, all this time?
This is going to be fun!
Upstate is a great asset to this site!
Democrat leaders have been lying to us. He is not doing well in meetings. He is not even lucid. America needs to see that tape to seal the deal. Every Democrat who has lied to us over the months that he is in fine shape should not win their races either. They made America unsafe.
And now those Demon leaders have the colassally unenviable job of selling us on the worth of whover they choose to replace Biden, right after his debate performance has totally discredited all of them. Good luck with that, a-holes 🙂 I have to wonder if Kennedy might not be the actual winner of the debate in spite of not being permitting to participate.
Ok, agreed. So, who’s running the show? It’s pretty clear it hasn’t been Biden. I personally think it’s the Obama-Soros-Clinton cabal, but no one can deny it anymore – this man is not the one calling any shots.
I am very concerned this was an acquiescence and the dems are about to pull another fast one on us as the modern left wouldn’t know an ethic if they crashed headlong into one.
Regarding Biden: not surprised. Given the lengths the left has gone to thus far to destroy their opposition and our society: very, very concerned.
The entire election has now become what you have written in the first paragraph. There won’t be any talk about what Biden will do over the next four years, the only discussion will be “who’s running the government now, who’s been running the government, and why isn’t he being replaced”. That will be it. There are five months until the election, is the government on autopilot until then? I agree that its being run by the Obama-Soros-Clinton team. How willing will that group be to bring in a Biden replacement that isn’t named Obama, Soros, or Clinton? The people pulling Biden’s marionette strings might not to that willing to give up this great power that easily. Newsome is many things but a puppet isn’t one of them.
Why aren’t THEY being replaced?
This goes beyond Biden
If Biden was not running the country for the past 4 years
Those that were are to blame for the mess we are in
And they do not have dimensia as an excuse
John,
Must been them dastardly Russians again.
dhili said: “Why aren’t THEY being replaced? This goes beyond Biden”
Because evidently, even in republics, people have a “figurehead” complex, and Biden is that figurehead.
It took SIXTEEN Democrats working nonstop for a week to produce what we saw last night. Americans are letting that sink-in as they watch the Dims continue to sink.
I’m laughing and thinking about the old joke “How many Democrats does it take to change a light bulb?”
(apparently more than 16 😉 )
You must have missed my accounting the other day for the 16.
How many sycophants does it take to prep Joe for a debate, working around the clock in a hangar for 7 days
4 to stand in as high energy Trump
4 to change the IV meds
4 to mash up his food
4 to change his diapers
anony….LOL….Yes I missed that….Thanks!
Yeh, that’s the other important take-away. You know damned well that they pulled out all of the stops regarding drugging and coaching Biden for that performance, and what the audience saw was the culmination of what must have been a Herculean effort. That was the very best, the most competent and lucid, that Biden is capable of being. Scary shit!
Number 6,
They took a whole week of coaching and last nights disaster was the very best we saw.
Scary is right!
Hur’s findings about Biden were a surprise to whom!???.
As stated in my comment in today’s earlier column, where is the surprise? The only surprise is that the WH and Democratic Party did a modern version of the King wears No Clothes for 4 years and there were enough gullible fools to buy into the charade of the unclothed king (Biden for those who can’t put together the dots) prancing down Pennsylvania Ave.
Biden was never smart, maybe sly and ethics challenged, but not smart and that also was obvious>
We have been cast into a universe of right is wrong, black is white, man is woman, nite is day and truth is ???????.
I think there would be more of a contest over the statement “kindly old man” than any question of his mental incompetence.
This was an emporers new close moment
Everyone knew Biden was incompetent
Last night their ability to keep lying ended
They don’t need the recording anymore.
What is worse and for whom; woke culture members awakening to the true state of America’s affairs that has existed far too long or the heightened opportunity for America’s opposition to act before the window of opportunity diminishes ?
So who’s been running the country?
Jill?
My parents had dementia, just like Joe, and that he had it was evident in 2020.
Not only the DNC and Democratic politicians, but journalists and everyone else who has covered for Joe since then is complicit in defrauding the American electorate.
People should be very very upset, and Joe should resign tomorrow, so Kamala gets a shot at being imcompetent.
Democrats
And they all should be voted out in November
Last night was not a disaster for Biden
He is past that
It was a disaster for those covering for him and pulling the strings for the past 4 years
And those covering it up
Re: “Hur concluded that prosecuting Biden would be difficult because a jury would view him as a sympathetic figure of a man with declining mental capabilities.’ A missed retort for Trump when Biden called him a convicted felon. Trump will never be a thoughtful, clever, and reserved public speaker with a fountain of concise and accurate facts at his fingertips. Forever a kid from the streets of Queens who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. There must be thousands of citizens out there, with the aforementioned capacity who could have hoisted Biden on his own petard last night with a laundry list of policies enacted by his Administration which have turned this nation on its ear and scream for change.
The tape will be released now, to further hurt Biden so that he can be replaced on the ticket…
Alas, not only 4 more years, but as a #Never Trumper, 7 more months! Save the country and step down
the BIG QUESTION is why the Republican Party continues to VOTE to Fund and Obvious Corrupt Government?
Defund Democrats…end Federal Aid to cities, states, colleges and non-profits. Cut Federal Spending 50%
The Democrats as a PARTY are EVIL
Pro Illegals, drugs, criminals and Ukraine…they steal taxpayer money as FAST AS THEY CAN!
They hate America
Voting for Democrats MEANS you HATE AMERICA!
So when do we arrest the Russian Hoax and Biden Laptop of Crime Conspirators?
Now…GIVE US ACCESS TO THE TAPE!
We do not need it any more
Garland should be prosecuted for obstruction