Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that if President Joe Biden “is too mentally incompetent to convict at a trial,” as laid out in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s damning report of the Biden classified documents probe, then he is unfit to serve as president.
Last week, Special Counsel Robert Hur announced in his 388-page report that, “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of [Biden], he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. 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...”
Sounds weirdly similar to FBI Director James Comey, supposedly a Republican, releasing then Presidential candidate Democrat Hillary Clinton on July 5, 2016, from any accountability for multiple felonies by declaring, “Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case...” He said this after spending several minutes listing her alleged crimes.
What we’re seeing here with Special Counsel Hur, another alleged Republican just like Comey, is another masterful display of the Deep State, working hand-in-hand with Democrat operatives to ensure they never let a crisis go to waste. They are setting the stage for President Biden to be removed as the presidential nominee for the Democrat Party.
Image: Joe Biden (edited). YouTube screen grab.
I would not be in the least surprised if this plot had been planned the day the classified documents were found haphazardly stored in Biden’s garage, documents that he allegedly took control over while he was a Senator and Vice President and, therefore, lacked any legal authority to possess classified documents. Simply put, Joe Biden violated the Espionage Act. Bigly.
The Democrats and their government operatives, including their media wing, which lies daily by not covering Biden’s gaffes and incoherent utterances, know that Biden is not mentally fit to be president. They know, too, that he will lose by such a huge margin that even large-scale voter fraud cannot manufacture enough votes to overcome his projected losses.
The logical next step would be to remove the President via the 25th Amendment. But the glaring fault with that scenario is that the hapless Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line for the Presidency. No one in the Democrat hierarchy wants to see that nightmare become a reality.
However, if Biden can’t stay the course, it’ll be interesting to see how they throw Kamala Harris under the bus. Sadly for the Democrats, while checking the proper melanin and gender boxes, Harris has a lower job approval rating than Biden and has demonstrated that she is incapable of anything other than giggling or making utterly meaningless pontifications that are confusing to even the sycophantic media trying to make her look good.
It will also be interesting to see who will be selected to carry the torch forward. Perhaps the evil, conniving, manipulative Democrats have outsmarted themselves this time.
Do you remember the episodes of the Sopranos where Uncle Junior faked dementia to avoid prosecution?
It’s what people think it looks like.
Every day the Israeli Defense Forces find more proof of the perfidy of the UN and UNRWA. Did you guess that the UN’s demand for a quick ceasefire was intended to conceal this? If so, you guessed right. This week, among other things, the IDF discovered Hamas's Intelligence Headquarters and an enormous tunnel beneath UNRWA HQ in Gaza, equipped with a huge server and data farm which was receiving its electricity from UNRWA sources. I’d hate to prejudge the honesty of the UNRWA officials who claim they’d no idea what was going on under their feet -- I mean, they might have thought there were giant hordes of very big moles under their HQ. Still, their denials strain credulity. Indeed, tunnels and tunnel entrances and weaponry and sometimes even terrorists have been found in every UNRWA facility in Gaza. Hamas (and certainly UNRWA) believed that these were the safest places to plot, hide themselves, store their weapons and surveillance equipment, and then bleat that they were immune from attack by the Hamas victims.
And then there are those who wanted us to believe that the stumbling, incoherent president was sharp as a tack despite two life-threatening brain aneurisms and advanced age. This week, the special counsel revealed your skepticism about Biden’s mental capacity was not misplaced. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, released by Attorney General Merrick Garland, reveals your concern was well-warranted. He found that Biden had removed classified information, mishandled it, disclosed it to someone not authorized to see it, and left it unsecured in “the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.”
He found evidence that President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and shared highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan. The report nevertheless concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.
Similar charges were leveled by another special counsel against former president Trump, who asserts that he, with full authority to do so, had declassified them, kept them in secure storage with Secret Service personnel on the premises. No action will be had against Biden -- who, when he removed them, had no authority to declassify anything and broke every law involving classified material . Among the reasons for not prosecuting Biden is this:
“We have also considered 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,” the report states. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”
“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.”
Numerous Democrats have rushed to his defense, indicating that Biden is not in the least bit mentally impaired. The question then becomes, if that’s the case, should the prosecution begin? Alternatively, if he is too mentally impaired to be prosecuted, should he remain commander in chief? It seems hard to avoid these responses, but the Democrats are trying.
The first attack is, naturally, on Hur’s integrity. Those with memories longer than a week or so recall with amusement Nancy Pelosi’s response to those who questioned Special Counsel Robert Mueller. She indicated that any questioning of him was shameless and undermined both the judicial system and the constitutional checks and balances provisions.
Unlike regular prosecutors, special counsels (and independent counsels before them) are obligated to write reports justifying their decisions on whether or not to prosecute. You may recall what happened with Hillary Clinton during the Ken Starr investigation. His predecessor Robert Ray indicated he would not seek criminal charges against her even though, contrary to her statements under oath, she had “ultimately influenced” the removal of the travel office personnel. However, “the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury [in the District of Columbia] beyond a reasonable doubt that any of Mrs. Clinton’s statements and testimony regarding her involvement in the travel office firings were knowingly false.”
Since prosecutors have ethical restraints against bringing cases they know have no reasonable likelihood of producing a guilty verdict, Democratic officeholders basically have a get out of prosecution ticket in a venue -- the District of Columbia -- which no prosecutor believes would convict them.
Yet another response is the usual for when a Democrat is caught in wrongdoing: make the story a Republicans "pounce" narrative, underplaying what they are "pouncing" about. Naturally, the New Republic is in this camp
More honest publications concede this is devastating for Democrats. Niall Stanage in The Hill :
Whatever language you use, I have not had a single person say, “Well, this really worked out well,” James Carville told this column, “Obviously this has been a bad 48 hours here.” Carville, best known for his central role in former President Clinton’s 1992 election campaign, added that Democrats were now looking to interventions from the Supreme Court, or a criminal conviction for Trump, in the hope that such developments would shift the election in Biden’s favor. “We’re officially in Hail Mary mode here,” he said. A different Democratic strategist, who asked for anonymity, chose a similarly dire metaphor. “We’re at a DEFCON One situation,” the strategist said. “I think between the special counsel report and the more catastrophic press conference that followed, and the even more catastrophic attacking of the special counsel for the report, they are magnifying and dismissing the concerns that the overwhelming majority of Americans have about Biden -- including a lot of Democrats,” Meanwhile, in a CNN appearance Friday, Paul Begala -- who rose to political fame along with Carville during the 1992 Clinton campaign -- described himself as a “Biden supporter”, but continued, “I slept like a baby. I woke up every two hours and wet the bed. This is terrible for Democrats and anybody with a functioning brain knows that.”
It’s too late for many states to add new names to their primary elections. If it’s too late to add a substitute for Biden to the primaries in those states, they’ll have to rely on write-in campaigns. The party apparently lacks a backup plan if it decides to run with a different candidate. Madison Hall in Business Insider :
With less than a year until election day, the Democratic Party has no apparent backup plan if it decides to part with its endorsed candidate.
Choosing a candidate to run against or replace Biden would also likely be a tremendously messy process: Would the party want to go with its current vice president, Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, or some other dark horse candidate? Who within the party would ultimately make that decision? What happens to all of the Biden campaign's funding? [snip] If a replacement for Biden can't be formally placed on ballots, the only option for the Democratic Party, if it's serious about fielding a different nominee, would be to quickly mobilize a campaign to write that candidate's name on state Democratic primary ballots. But if this write-in campaign isn't implemented before Super Tuesday, there's little chance at all that a formal replacement for Biden will be available on Democratic tickets come November.
The deadline to appear as an independent candidate on general election ballots in November is much more lenient, meaning the Democratic Party could, as a last resort, opt to promote a candidate not even tied to the party on the ballot.
With all this in mind, it's almost certainly in the Democratic Party's best interest to coalesce around Biden as much as possible to build support around his campaign.
Will they go down with the ship? Gin up protests and riots as they’ve done before? Continuing rigging elections, this time with millions of illegal immigrants, illegally voting?
DOJ MERRICK GARLAND HAS DEDICATED HIMSELF TO PROTECTING THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. THE GAMER LAWYER HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
Both major parties have squandered the right to govern
Yesterday’s public statement by the Special Counsel for Joe Biden’s abuse of power in sharing and personally hoarding federally classified information/property, says it all. Not only does it underline the appalling double standard of a Democrat administration and ruling party in dealing with its Republican “enemies” but it also highlights the substantial differences in the quality and quantity of Biden’s persecution and that of Donald Trump’s.
Most unfortunately, the GOP is, once again, missing the point and are headed, with an obtuseness almost impossible to forgive at this very late date, in the wrong direction.
While the Democrats’ “position” now is that Biden should be effectively shielded from prosecution due to age and memory issues—as just used by the Special Counsel to excuse Biden from ANY prosecution—critical requirements of law and justice are being entirely scuttled off to an extraneous and clearly, specifically irrelevant issue of “age.” What happened to this: How old was Biden when he started keeping classified documents for himself, for his own uses (and we know a good deal about that), and how old was he when he kept doing it, e.g., between administrations and into the current one?
Again—a kindergartener would understand the real moral issues here—was Biden “this old” when he began squirreling away classified documents during his vice presidency? Why does any presidential defense as to storing classified documents in personal locations work for Biden, on any timeline, when Trump’s home was raided, and he is still under violent persecution—ignoring the legal prerogatives of past U.S. presidents—after leaving office, from these charges? Trump is protected as having been president, a defense Biden has never had; Trump had his in one of the most secure locations in the world, his private residence at Mar-a-Lago, while Biden had his plopped in the seat of an open-top car in an unsecured garage.
The real “crisis” here is clear, and it isn’t age. The stupid/wicked MSM has taken the Special Counsel’s workaround for Biden and turned it into a circus: the clown is Biden, aging and babbling, but the fools are the short-sighted Republican politicians who are only too happy to push Biden out and at-least-as-bad Kamala in, leaving their so-called hero Trump in the same awful mess he has been fixed in for years now.
Today’s scandal is not about an old man: Didn’t we all already know that? The scandal is that the Democrat party reserves its cold, calculated “compassion” for its own ranks, while filling the vacuum in with a wild, indiscriminate, and terribly foolish prosecution of Trump, and anyone who happens to want to vote for him.
Speaker Mike Johnson is among the very few in his party that are getting this right:
What is wrong with our Republican politicians? Can they not discern between making progress in justice or chasing it down yet another choreographed rabbit hole? It’s simple: face off with the Democrats, for once. Stop voting with them. Stop squandering our tax money on them. Stop playing war-footsie with them. They are dangerous and without scruple. Hold that party and their leader accountable to the last penny, in everything. Now. And, for heaven’s sake, stop obeying the MSM by accommodating its pathetic, vigilante communications agenda in your main talking points.
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It Can’t Be Biden
Despite having always been a walking gaffe-machine, there was once a time when it would have been difficult to deny that Joe Biden was among the slipperiest in the nest of vipers that is Washington, D.C.
That time is certainly not now. It would be bad enough that, as President* of the United States, he’s incapable of taking scripted questions from predetermined and friendly reporters . But the ravages of age have impaired him beyond even the most basic cognitive and physical function. He shuffles about aimlessly, as if lost, whether he’s at the G7 Summit or in the White House Rose Garden . Even with the aid of a teleprompter, his slurring makes his speech incomprehensible. His inability to remember key details, and butchering of simple exchanges with the press and diplomats, has made him the subject of mockery among world leaders.
Understandably, given these circumstances, the looming question is: Who’s going to replace Biden on the Democrat ticket in 2024? This has been a topic throughout his presidency, and it really picked up steam in 2023. Now however, those discussions seem to have gone by the wayside, and we’re all meant to assume that Democrats are prepared to have him headline.
Many would suggest that we’re just too far along to replace him now. “Is it too late for Biden to bow out in 2024?” Thomas Gift asks rhetorically at The Conversation. “Technically, no,” he answers, but he suggests that it’s unlikely due to 30 states already having passed the deadline to get candidates’ names on the primary ballot. And if Biden isn’t replaced by March, he says, then there would be a “high-stakes fracas at the party’s convention” in August.
There are a lot of uncertain things in politics, and predictions are risky. But you don’t have to know much about reading political tea leaves to conclude that Biden’s appearance on the ticket in November of 2024 would be a catastrophe for Democrats.
Biden appears to be simply unelectable at this point, and while I don’t believe that Democrats are diabolical geniuses, I also don’t think they’re too stupid to recognize this.
Some things are so obvious that almost everyone can see them. After having watched Biden bumble around and led around by handlers for a few years, a full 77% of Americans feel that Biden is too old to serve another term in office, for all the aforementioned reasons which have been impossible to ignore.
In the realm of politics in America, 77% is a landslide. You’d have a hard time getting 77% of Americans to agree on anything, and for reference, that’s higher than the percentage of Americans who say that the American flag “makes them feel proud.” But 77% of Americans, including 69% of Democrats, agree that Biden is just too old for a second term.
The news only gets worse from there. According to an NBC poll , Donald Trump has a 23-point lead over Biden on the question of which candidate has the “mental and physical health to be president.” On the matter of who might better “secure the border and control immigration,” Trump owns a 35-point lead. Who can better deal with the economy? Trump by 22 points. Dealing with crime and violence? Trump by 21 points.
Among the only issues where Biden actually leads Trump is on abortion (by 12 points) and climate. The trouble for Democrats is that abortion and climate are prioritized as a top issue by only 21% of American voter s. Since each respondent in this poll was allowed to select three of their top issues, and given the fact that these two issues tend to be peculiarly prioritized only by very socially-minded leftists in suburbia and left-wing college students, the 1-in-5 voter who prioritizes abortion is likely the same voter that prioritizes climate policy.
Again, Democrats aren’t stupid, and they see what you and everyone else see in those numbers. And the numbers highlight, Mark Murray at NBC says , the clear reversal of the trends observed just six months ago. In July of 2023, Biden went from a 49–45% lead in a hypothetical head-to-head with Trump, to now being at a 47–42% deficit.
The good news, Murray reports, is that Biden “pulls ahead of Trump when voters are asked about their ballot choice if [Trump] is convicted of a felony.” But even that may be a phantom hope, given that Biden’s lead then only becomes a two-point margin, and that’s within the margin of error.
So, are Democrats betting the farm on a Trump conviction? Maybe, but their efforts to convict him haven’t served them well so far.
The first Trump indictment began in June of 2023, and since then, Biden has lost significant ground in most head-to-head matchups with Trump. This isn’t necessarily because Trump has attracted voters, as the NBC poll numbers show. It’s because Biden has shed voters to an incredible degree.
Whatever the reason for that, whether it’s Biden’s ever more apparent senility, the invasion at the Southern border, or Biden’s weaponized government agencies targeting his political rival, the trajectory is calamitous for Democrats. Biden is obviously in freefall, and I can’t imagine that Democrats haven’t already packed a parachute.
Unlike Thomas Gift at The Conversation, and all the other people pretending that we’re too far along for Democrats to anoint a new candidate, I can recall the 2016 and 2020 Democrat primaries. And I know that anointing a presidential candidate at the convention in August might be much cleaner than again having to cover up the DNC’s efforts to thwart the democratic will of its voters, as it did in 2016 and 2020.
We could discuss the oddities in the coin-flips which put Hillary Clinton on the road to the presidency in 2016; but it’s unnecessary. It was so obvious that the DNC would accept nothing less than a Hillary Clinton nomination in 2016 that the DNC was forced to apologize to Bernie Sanders and his supporters for Party officials’ bias against him, which was exposed by a large cache of leaked internal emails.
But that wasn’t the last time that the Democrat elites sabotaged Bernie’s primary hopes, which leads us to the Super Tuesday Massacre of 2020.
Bernie was running away with the primary in early 2020, you might recall, while Biden was floundering. He finished fourth in Iowa, and placed a dismal fifth place in New Hampshire.
South Carolina was his Hail Mary. House Representative James Clyburn offered to help Joe Biden secure the black vote in South Carolina—if he committed to nominating a black woman as his first Supreme Court nominee.
Clyburn saved Biden’s candidacy in South Carolina, keeping Joe alive for the DNC. But the problem was that all the energy and momentum still remained with Sanders.
Then, a curious thing happened. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, both having performed fairly well in the primary up to that point, dropped out of the race just before Super Tuesday. This cleared the lane for Biden to generally own the “moderate” vote of the Democrat party. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren remained in the race, cannibalizing large swathes of the far-left, socialist voting bloc that would likely have gone to Bernie Sanders.
You may have noticed that Pete Buttigieg, who couldn’t fill potholes as the mayor of South Bend, later got a cushy appointment as Secretary of the Department of Transportation. That’s just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Yes, it all looks really shady. But the fact is that the DNC had decided that, by hook or by crook, Crooked Hillary was going to be on the ticket in 2016. And in 2020, it was going to be the generic Democrat fixture, old Sleepy Joe, who would be campaigning from his basement while the trusty Democrat machine worked to normalize mail-in ballots and change election laws to Democrats’ advantage.
The primary system has proven inconvenient to the DNC, and their past shenanigans to ensure that their anointed candidate is “selected” within the primary framework has been difficult to conceal.
As such, it makes sense that the DNC would wait to anoint Biden’s replacement. The very best scenario imaginable for the DNC isn’t to open the process to ideas and speculation and voters today, but to have Biden eliminated from the race at some time around the convention.
It would be a madhouse of speculation and criticism, of course, but all that would be needed is enough of the delegates that were pledged to Biden to break for the newly-anointed candidate. Superdelegates would have no say unless the convention is contested, though it may be contested to make the process look less rigged. Thus, they would be able to nullify the preceding primary votes and disenfranchise the voters once again in order to anoint the DNC’s preferred candidate—but this time, it will be justified by the veneer of necessity.
Biden represents an unprecedented crisis, and that requires an unprecedented response. He is in freefall, and it appears that he’s outlived his usefulness to the Party. It just makes sense for Democrats to pull the ripcord around summertime.
The only remaining question is, who will be the parachute for the Party?
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Too incompetent to be prosecuted but not too incompetent to rule?
Per Special counsel Robert Hur’s—a Republican, you’ll be reminded incessantly if you follow this story— findings in the Joe Biden classified documents case, Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified material after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure this constitutes a felony, at least when a Republican or anyone not named Obama, Biden, or Clinton does it. But Mr. Hur won’t bring charges because “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
This brings to mind the story of Vincent “The Chin” Gigante , a mafioso who feigned insanity to avoid prosecution. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Mr. Biden, at this point, has the capacity to feign anything, least of all competence. But he wasn’t a pathetic, senile caricature of his current self when these crimes were committed. Hur’s decision to not charge reminds of James Comey’s speech exonerating Hillary Clinton of her national security breaches. The difference here is Hur has the authority to charge or not, where Comey did not. Many saw this as Comey taking his boss, then Attorey General Loretta Lynch, off the hook for making an obviously, politically charged call.
Democrat partisans are, naturally, calling the prosecutor’s report a hatchet job on the president. If they were being honest they would thank him for putting what many would consider the final nail in Biden’s reelection fantasy. It’s been widely speculated for some time that after acquiring the needed delegate count in the Democrat primaries that Biden would bow out of the race at the convention and throw his delegates to Michelle Obama, Gavin Newsome, or… God help us, Hillary.
I said four years ago that come November there was no way Biden would be atop the Democrat ticket. Obviously, I was wrong. But I feel much more confident in making the same assertion this time around. The $64,000 question is: who will replace him? That he was “elected” four years ago is testament to how corrupt our political system has become; it’s not as though he was competent then either. That senile Joe is some kind of puppet front for a covert third Obama administration is hardly speculative. He has become, for Democrats, the most useful of idiots, but his utility is fading fast.
Raskin: Special Counsel Biden’s A.G. Picked Is an ‘Age-Discriminatory’ Politically-Motivated Republican 2:48
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) argued that Robert Hur, the Special Counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the classified documents probe of President Joe Biden is a Republican who “intended” to raise concerns about Biden’s age with the “kind of age-discriminatory and age-insulting remarks” about President Biden in the report.
Raskin said, “[T]his Republican special counsel said that Joe Biden had been completely forthcoming and cooperative and they’re not bringing any criminal charges against him. He did take some gratuitous slaps at Joe Biden because of his age, and a lot of these kind of age-discriminatory and age-insulting remarks are getting rather tiresome. All we really need from a special prosecutor like Hur is a decision whether there [are] any legal grounds to move forward, he said there [are] not. And he didn’t need to take all those cheap shots, and, obviously, you could take the same kinds of cheap shots at Donald Trump, who recently confused a woman that he sexually attacked and then lied about with one of his wives and also mixed up Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Nikki Haley.”
Host Wolf Blitzer asked, “In the Special Counsel’s report, it says that President Biden couldn’t remember when he was vice president or even when his son Beau died. It is important to note that many Americans are seriously concerned about his age. Does this raise alarms about whether President Biden is fit to serve another term in office?”
Raskin responded, “Well, undoubtedly, that’s what Robert Hur, who comes from my state, he’s a Maryland Republican, undoubtedly, that’s what he intended to do with those ridiculous cheap shots. I just spent an hour with President Biden and the entire Democratic caucus, where he regaled and entertained everyone for an hour and went through all of the extraordinary accomplishments of his administration, including the Inflation Reduction Act. We’ve got the best economy in the world right now, the creation of millions and millions of jobs, just an extraordinary record to run on. So, they’re going to come up with some cheap shots like that. To me, Wolf, it reminds me of the kind of gender-based cheap shots they took at Hillary Clinton when she ran for president, and now there are all these age-based cheap shots that they’re taking on [Joe Biden]. And it does show you how desperate they are, because you could turn them around and use all the same ones against Donald Trump, who is fumbling his way through every day trying to figure out who he’s attacking this day or that and which case based on his criminal conduct he’s attending.”
Special Counsel Finds Joe Biden ‘Willfully Retained’ Classified Docs — but Is Too Mentally Feeble to Prosecute Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images, DOJ 3:07
Special Counsel Robert Hur will not charge President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents but included stunning revelations in his report of the deterioration of Biden’s mental state that are perhaps more politically damning.
The report says the investigation “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen” but does not establish guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Source: DOJ
Yet Hur’s assessment of Biden’s “significantly limited” memory also played a part in his decision not to prosecute.
“We have also considered 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,” the report states. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”
“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.”
Source: DOJ
Hur’s report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden’s mental faculties and memory have deteriorated, saying, “Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations.”
Shockingly, the report says, “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
Biden has often spoken about his son Beau’s death from brain cancer, on numerous occasions attributing his death to dying in Iraq.
Perhaps most damning is Biden’s inability to remember his time as vice president:
In his interview with our office… He 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?”).
Despite Hur’s assessment of a prosecution’s chances in court — which mirror the justifications not to charge Hillary Clinton in 2016 — the evidence presented in the report leaves no doubt of Biden’s at-best sloppy handling of classified documents.
Source: DOJ
“Among the places Mr. Biden’s lawyers found classified documents in the garage was a damaged, opened box containing numerous hanging folders, file folders, and binders. The box…was in a mangled state,” the report reads.
The report also revealed evidence that Biden disclosed classified information to the ghostwriter of his book.
The report’s release comes amid renewed questions about Biden’s mental health. In 2024, Biden has described recent conversations with foreign leaders who died many years ago.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye .
Biden classified docs probe ends with charges unlikely, attorney general says UPI Feb. 7 (UPI) — The special counsel investigation of classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s residences has concluded with no charges likely, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday.
Special counsel Robert Hur ended his investigation and submitted his report to the Justice Department on Monday, Garland reported to House and Senate leaders.
A White House privilege review hasn’t concluded, but Garland said the Justice Department will make “as much of the special counsel’s report public as possible.”
He said the Department of Justice will provide members of Congress with the report, appendices and Hur’s letter after the White House review is done.
The investigation largely involves Biden’s retention of classified documents while he was vice president and after leaving office in January 2017.
Biden allegedly retained the documents in error instead of returning them to the National Archives and Records Administration, CBS News reported.
The classified documents were placed in two storage units and eventually wound up in a private office used by Biden. Some documents also were found in boxes inside Biden’s garage at his home in Wilmington, Del.
A search of Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house in Delaware and at the University of Delaware did not locate more documents.
An additional 10 classified documents were found at the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C., which prompted Garland to appoint Hur to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents in January 2023, ABC News reported.
The classified documents date to Biden’s time as vice president under President Barack Obama, and several were marked as “top secret.”
The investigation by Hur included interviewing about 100 former and current White House and governmental employees. Hur also interviewed Hunter Biden and spent two days interviewing the president.
Biden has told reporters he was surprised to learn of the classified documents in his possession and denied breaking any federal laws.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 40 counts of illegally possessing classified documents. Trump pleaded innocent to the charges against him and accused Justice Department officials of targeting Republicans.
Officials with the National Archives reported that Biden and his legal representatives cooperated with its search for missing classified documents but said Trump and his representatives intentionally withheld classified documents from investigators and the FBI.
Joe Biden Pressured Merrick Garland to Prosecute Donald Trump, Resurfaced NYT Report Says Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 3:00
President Joe Biden pressured Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 to prosecute former President Donald Trump, a resurfaced New York Times report says.
The report, which reemerged Thursday on X, appears to be attracting attention because of the recent legal attacks against Trump:
Colorado – Prohibiting Trump from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballotNew York – “Stormy Daniels” (state)Miami – “Documents” (federal)Washington, D.C. – “January 6” (federal)Fulton County, Georgia (state)Times reporters Katie Benner, Katie Rogers, and Michael S. Schmidt published an article on April 2, 2022, about Biden’s frustration with Garland about the lack of prosecution against Trump, according to two people familiar with Biden’s comments.
“The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself,” the Times reported. “As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments.”
“And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6,” the report added.
Since the report was originally published, state and federal officials have indicted Trump four times. He faces 91 counts and 717.5 years in jail, Breitbart News reported.
Trump also faces challenges to remaining on state ballots in some blue states. On Tuesday the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a four-to-three opinion that the United States Constitution’s “Insurrection Clause” blocks Trump from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot, preventing voters from deciding who should become the next president.
“Is Trump an insurrectionist, sir?” a reporter asked Biden Wednesday.
Biden mumbled, “I think … it’s self-evident.” He continued, “Whether the Fourteenth Amendment applies, we’ll let the Court make that decision.”
“But he certainly supported an insurrection,” Biden claimed without evidence. “No question about it. None. Zero.”
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Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly waited weeks to approve the search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago private residence.
While the establishment media suggested “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items the FBI” sought in the raid of Mar-a-Lago, it took weeks for Garland to make up his mind on whether to approve the warrant, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
“The decision had been the subject of weeks of meetings between senior Justice Department and FBI officials, the people said,” the Journal reported. “The warrant allowed agents last Monday to seize classified information and other presidential material from Mar-a-Lago.”
After the raid and significant public pressure, the Justice Department filed a motion in court to release the FBI’s property receipt of the 28 inventory items federal agents seized. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart agreed to make the search warrant public the next day.
On Monday, Donald Trump said the FBI “stole ” his “passports” in last week’s raid. The passports were not independently itemized on the FBI’s property receipt of the 28 inventory items federal agents seized.
The warrant, signed by Reinhart and approved by Garland, did not state that they could take Trump’s passport. Typically, the government needs a separate court order to seize someone’s passport, even temporarily.
CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell contradicted Trump’s statement and claimed that “[a]ccording to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports.” After the report, Trump’s team released an email from Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division, which confirmed Trump’s passports were seized in the raid of Mar-a-Lago the previous Monday. The email also said the passports would be returned to the Trump “at 2 PM today.”
According to the Wall Street Journal , “The department Monday asked a judge not to make public the affidavit on which the search warrant was based, as some news-media outlets had sought, writing in a court filing that the document contains ‘critically important investigative facts’ about witnesses and tactics.”
Prosecutors explained they do not want the affidavit made public because it would “likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses,” they wrote .
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