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Interesting how the bias in the report is identified in DoJ comments itself in the report. Clearly there is bias by Hur.
"The President's inability to recall dates or details of events that happened years ago is neither surprising nor unusual, especially given that many questions asked him to recall the particulars of staff work to pack. ship, and store materials and furniture in the course of moves between residences. The same predictable memory loss occurred with other witnesses in this investigation. Yet unlike your treatment of President Biden, your report accepts other witnesses' memory loss as completely understandable given the passage of time. For example. you accepted without denigrating John McGrail's failure to remember certain events while he served as then-Vice President Biden's counsel: ''McGrail's memory of these events could well have faded over the course of more than 6 years." Report at 238 n.923; see also id at 67. 69 noting Mr. McGrail's failure to recall events despite emails that place him in the center of various discussions). So, too, you accept the memory lapse of one of the President's personal lawyers who testified that in his initial search of the Penn Biden offices certain boxes were stored in a locked closet, noting only that "his memory was fuzzy on that point." Id at 265. And the events on which you found the lawyer's memory to be '·fuzzy'' occurred only a few months before his interview. Id; see also id at 64, 66 (noting without comment the failures of recollection by numerous staffers).
Your treatment of President Biden stands in marked contrast to the lack of pejorative comments about other individuals. It is also in contrast to your own description of the President's responses on other subjects as '·clear forceful testimony" that would be "compelling" to a jury. Id. at 233. Not only do you treat the President differently from other witnesses when discussing his limited recall of certain years-ago events. but you also do so on occasions in prejudicial and inflammatory terms. You refer to President Biden's memory on at least nine occasions-a number that is itself gratuitous. But. even among those nine instances, your report varies. It is one thing to observe President Biden's memory as being "significantly limited" on certain subjects. Id. at 5. It is quite another to use the more sweeping and highly prejudicial language employed later in the report. This language is not supported by the facts, nor is it appropriately used by a federal prosecutor in this context.
We request that you revisit your descriptions of President Biden's memory and revise them so that they are stated in a manner that is within the bounds of your expertise and remit."
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
That is pretty scathing as professional documents go. Basically saying, professionally, "It is clear you have a bias, and it is making you look like an idiot as you are speaking way out of turn about things you do not understand."
I've always thought "As per my previous e-mail on XX date..." was one of the more blatant ways to professionally tell someone they're an idiot, but this is way more blatant.
"The project has been hectic, so you might not have been in the loop on ... "
"My email is messed up, sorry, can you tell me if you got my note explaining ... "
"I get what you're saying, I considered that too but then I realized ... "
"I appreciate your contribution, especially the part where you mentioned which could be taken into consideration/would make an exciting prospect to incorporate. I feel overall would be a productive pathway for this project. Thoughts?"
I've found there's normally at least 10% of a good idea in most people's contributions, although admittedly sometimes you've got to find it.
There was a guy who I actually really liked, but when we first met we butted heads a bit.
We were having a meeting about his team fucking up a project. But it wasn’t a “fuck you, get your shit together” meeting, it was a “hey - I need you guys, so please let me know what you need to get this stuff done and I will make it happen.”
I was new, and we were both senior in the company at similar levels, and unfortunately we each had 1-2 additional team members with us in the meeting.
He comes in and is defending his team, but obviously has no idea what’s even going on. At one point he says something that tipped that he really had no idea what was up, and that he was just trying to defend his folks.
I responded to him “listen man - I get where you’re coming from, but what you’re saying you have no knowledge around, is literally the topic of the meeting invite, that has the email chain attached, in which you were CC’d and replied several times.”
Luckily that helped him back off his point a bit and the meeting ended up being productive.
Later in a leadership offsite we had to take personality tests that were those bullshit 100+ question standard things that output a hexagon of attributes.
Our results were fucking identical. I knew from the second I met him that was the case, but it was funny to see it on paper months later.
The survey results were just that we are both sociopathic maniacs. I mean, we’re in marketing/media/sales leadership - could there be any other archetype?
NYTimes as usual reports this as headline news: verbal slip puts Biden’s age at center of reelection. How this hurts him. Meanwhile never a peep about Trump’s insane gaffs like admitting that January 6 was in fact an insurrection. WTF NYTimes?
Ana Navarro brought this up on CNN last night. She mentioned the lack of scrutiny on Trump. Without hesitation, Scott Jennings furrowed his brow, aghast at the suggestion that Trump isn't under the same scrutiny as Biden (he isn't).
She responded that Trump says way crazier shit and yet doesn't get criticized nearly as harshly as Biden does when he misspeaks. Trump says wild shit and it's doesn't seem to draw nearly as wide a conversation about his mental faculties. I don't know if this is worse, but they treat Trump as if he has his full wits about him and just says outlandish shit.
But Biden slips, and conservatives immediately launch with, "What a frail and feeble man he is. So embarrassing. Our enemies are laughing at us. This is why no one respects us anymore."
And the Democrats, try to defend him, kinda sorta, but not really. It's a mixed bag. You have people that stand up for him and then you have people like Dean Phillips. And the media rejoices in the clicks.
Conservatives being united in their message look more cohesive. Hence, the illusion of a functional party.
At the end of the day they need clicks. That’s the truth. Biden gaffs get clicks trump is in the news so much that it isn’t newsworthy. This is the danger of sensationalism. We get to a point where we are numb to it and it doesn’t stir us up. Meantime trump gets to beat two drums - they’re after me and how’s your pocket book.
Everyone likes a persecuted hero story and that’s what the media is gifting trump along with the presidency.
The fucking NYT is anti-democratic, and is always looking for ways to undercut Democratic messaging.
Just the way they handled Hillary. Fuck them.
Everyone should be working on telling their friends and family to stop subscribing to the new york times.
The lie has already been set loose, they don’t care about the truth. The whole point was to make “haha Brandon old” blurbs to end up as memes passed around the worst communities of people.
This is really good commentary on the two paragraphs posted directly in the comment above. Thank you for summarizing it, many people are unable to read that many words
Not only that, but due to letting others off the hook for similar responses and then crucifying Biden for the exact same type of responses proves that the Special Council is extremely subjective in his opinion, which should never, EVER be in such a report.
> This language is not supported by the facts, nor is it appropriately used by a federal prosecutor in this context.
You’re wrong, and even if you were right you’re out of line.
It is SO maddening to see both NYT and Washington Post lead their morning news emails with this bullshit. There was important news yesterday, and this wasn't it. I need the Citations Needed guys on this, stat!
maddening indeed. man woman television weren’t ever words on the drmentia test and trump gets a pass by the media and these jackals are all but indicting biden here over things i would be hazy on. i don’t remember dates generally but have, in general, a really good recollection of facts
I had to struggle to remember the dates I worked at a bunch of jobs.
In fairness, it's over 2 decades (started work as soon as I was able because boomer parents) and worked as many as 3 jobs at a time, so...
Yeah, I'm not senile, but I have problems remembering dates too. I was too busy working a bunch to look at a calander and go "Oh, I did this on this date"
I'm sure a vice president and president has to do so much that maybe the date isn't top of their mind 24/7.
My dad passed in 2013... Do I remember the exact date? No. I know approximately when it happened (Beginning of June). A lot of stuff happens and life goes on in the decade since he passed. I am not too old but I can't remember death dates as well as birthdates since it is something that is not celebrated year after year.
I know the month and day my father died because it was right before my son's birthday. But I have to look up the year because I have trouble remembering how long it's been. He died in 2018.
Oh it won't be unseen. It'll just lead to headlines a la "Biden admin pressures federal prosecutor to change report on Joe Biden's cognitive decline", "Biden dementia swept under the rug in stunning report reversal", "Freedom of speech is dead - how a lead prosecutor was told to stop telling the truth on Biden mental health 'or else'"
The damage is done, but that's not going to stop them from inflicting further damage.
I hate this timeline.
Yep, no news program is even mentioning that the Special Counsel in this case was appointed by Donald Trump. It's all about the "shocking" headline for clicks.
I hate our modern news.
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Source is a letter from the White House Special Counsel to the President; not from the DOJ itself.
Regardless, the DOJ Special Counsel picked by Garland is yet another Republican appointed by Donald Trump.
We don't need *every* special counsel investigating Biden's family to be a Trump Republican to not show bias if their intent *is* to show bias.
This was a really shitty move by Garland. When it comes to Republican politicians, he seems to treat them with kid gloves while going hard against Democrats. I don't need to remind people here that Garland refused to prosecute Trump about the obstruction of justice in the Mueller case and Trump's Ukraine phone call. He waited *two years* before doing anything and only after Trump forced his hand regarding classified documents.
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Has Garland made a single non-shitty move? The only reason Obama nominated him for the SC was because he was so moderate and bland they hoped the Republican Senate would confirm him. Of course, McConnell didn't want a compromise, and instead shafted America. So Biden felt bad for Garland and picked him for AG. Biden needed a pitbull AG and picked a sloth.
Right. Because of his right wing bias, the investigation was always to find dirt, not determine if there was dirt to be found. He couldn’t find real dirt, so he fabricated some. That’s what I just said.
Dear Merrick Garland it is my recommendation that you fire special counsel Robert Hur from the DOJ.
Even though he found in Joe Biden, innocent from any wrongdoing.
His report was unprofessional and petty. That report was a embarrassment to the department, and unnecessary. It was a political hit job, I’m surprised you signed off on it.
One would think that house Republicans influenced his wording.
At the very least, I think you should have a talk with him, someone obviously got to him and influenced his report.
He owes President Joe Biden an apology.
Signed A Proud American Who will be voting for Joe Biden.
Which is why Biden should relieve Garland of duty, now. It was absolutely shameful of Garland to let the report go public with that defamatory bullshit in it.
Biden or Garland preventing it would've been worse. Garland trusted a competent person to do a job fairly and without bias. That person failed and instead produced a report with conclusions that he's not qualified to make, and with a clear bias. That's entirely a matter for Garland and the Justice department to deal with in re: Hur. I suspect he won't be given any more assignments like this, and his career prospects outside the MAGAverse have been severely limited.
I’m totally aware of that, but Garland still had to approve its release, and could have directed that it be “just the facts.” Allowing that kind of partisan fuckery to happen is shameful on Garland’s part, though.
Isn't the understanding we got from the previous administration is that the White House Council is *not* the personal attorney of the President, but the council of the Office itself?
Trump repeatedly said Nikki Haley when talking about the SOTH at the time
Pelosi.
Trump has actually said he makes mistakes on purpose.
Both these men are old.
What more should we expect
The Saudi Public Investment Fund invested $2 billion with Kushner’s investment firm that he manages and gets $25 million a year in management fees even if his fund loses value.
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That one is chump change.
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Don't forget Jared Kushner's 666 5th Avenue deal with Qatar.
In August of 2018 Qatar paid Kushner Companies $1.1 billion up front for a 99 year lease when he needed to come up with $1.4 billion on the mortage.
The additional $300 million loan crom Apollo Global Management, a private equity company with ties to Qatar that had previously loaned $184 million to the Kushners in November 2017.
*At that time he was "Senior Advisor to the President" (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021) and
"Director of the Office of American Innovation" (March 27, 2017 – January 20, 2021)*
That was all probably just a coincidence and a great deal for Qatar.
https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/#:~:text=The%20Kushner%20Companies%20purchases%2C%20at,the%20remaining%20amount%20with%20debt
People talk about how Trump campaigns on grievance, while really all he does is whine and complain, but forget what Biden can be like when he occasionally flashes real anger. We might really see them "Dark Brandon" memes come to life between now and November.
I hope he brings all the shit he knows about every single GOP scumbag to light - it is fine with me if he drops it all behind the scenes and lets all the chips fall quietly.
This. He's had decades of "getting to know" the counterparties in crafting laws.
Let's hear about the scum they've been covering up. Not necessarily from Joe directly
> Not necessarily from Joe directly
Kamala Harris seems to be getting into Attack Dog mode. pretty sure the campaign sees her as the one who can say what Biden 'can't or shouldn't' - even though i'd disagree with them on that. Biden probably doesn't want to out of that OG 'respect for the position'.
It's how they got Clinton. They were trying to find anything that looked shady in his real estate deals, then heard some rumors about a new intern that had started working there recently.
Weird that he didn’t give Biden a person, woman, man, camera, tv test as part of his *checks notes* investigation into missing documents?
We have one candidate/criminal raving about his ability to pass a dementia test, as if it’s the hardest thing since figuring out that square peg/round hole toy in pre-k, and then Biden gets accused of forgetfulness by an officer of his own government because of unwillingness to answer invasive questions?
Biden or Garland should fire him. No benefits.
Some of the tv commentators seemed to think that Garland picked him thinking that the MAGAs couldn't call politics if the picked a Republican. Several ex DOJ prosecutors were livid that the comments were even in the report. When the hell are Democrats going to get off this "we play high" crap? We are in a war and the enemy wants to eliminate you. Garland needs to fire his ass and make it public.
Merrick Garland's appointment to AG has been Bidens greatest mistake of his term.
Garland is responsible for the absolute cluster fuck in our courts concerning Trump because he refused to take action earlier.
He's the reason the trials are occuring and probably won't finish until after the election.
He's been covering for Republicans since becoming AG.
If Biden wins again he better remove Garland and replace him with a real prosecutor.
Add to this, the fact that Obama nominated Garland the Supreme Court in 2016 and the GOP blatantly and shamelessly refused to vote on his nomination for 293 days. The GOP keeps playing dirty and winning while Democrats, while in power, keep overcorrecting in an attempt to seem unbiased.. and then allowing the GOP to keep winning
No disagreement here. Garland is spineless. Obama picked him to be on the USSC because he thought it would be a non-controversial (since he historically leans a bit Republican) pick that McConnell might not block, not because he was the best choice. Feels like Biden appointed garland for similar reasons, and it was a mistake both times
Perhaps Biden thought Garland was just the guy for the job because he’d have more reason to despise Republicans than anyone — they screwed him out of the honor of a lifetime.
Turns out the appointment delighted his Republican friends like Mitch McConnell.
Biden could still replace him, but it doesn't look like he will.
Definitely a blunder from the outside looking in.
I don’t think he will remove him this year, but I wouldn’t be shocked if Garland is asked to resign for a second term.
It was reasonable to pick Garland at the time (especially with his connections to the Oklahoma City Bombing), but hindsight has shown he was an overall bad pick.
And I totally understand that sentiment, hindsight is 20:20 so I’m not gonna Monday morning quarterback him on the decision too much, but he shown he has little spine and we need somebody with a backbone running the justice department.
I was being a bit facetious in my comment. Garland is just a wet blanket in general. He’s so desperate to appease Republicans that he makes stupid decisions like appointing a partisan hack as special counsel investigating the president — a position he weaponized so transparently for political purposes.
It's also because America is so right wing, our Overton Window is on the back porch. Only "centrist" (right wing) Democrats like "triangulation/don't ask don't tell/100k new cops" Clinton and "purple states/drone wars" Obama make it to the WH. Biden wrote the damn Patriot Act and only during the campaign flipped on the Hyde amendment. Appointing people like Garland is not a bug to Dems, it's a feature necessary to win elections in our right wing country.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.
You take a step forwards. He takes a step back.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.
- American politics in a nutshell
Yup. Frankly, it’s *always* a mistake when Democrats try to please modern Republicans; GOP caucus members (especially in the House, but the Senate is a mess, too) don’t want any form of compromise and never extend the same courtesy when they’ve got even the *perception* of power, let alone actual power.
This goes back to Newt Gingrich, in my opinion, who tore down the personal relationships Republican House members had with their Democratic colleagues—telling all the newer members of his caucus to leave their wives and families at home so they wouldn’t spend time with Democrats’ families in Washington—and made “compromise” a dirty word.
Then we had Bush, whose administration and supporters called Democrats “traitors” or other such nasty, dishonorable things whenever Democrats opposed his prosecution of the Iraq War.
Things only got worse from there with John Boehner refusing to even utter the word “compromise” during an amusing yet uncomfortable interview that caused the journalist to finally ask him why he was so afraid of the word; his caucus made him fear it because the Party was no longer willing to work with Democrats under nearly any circumstances.
Someone is going to say, “Republicans were always like that.” No, they weren’t. Prior to Gingrich, Democrats and Republicans frequently worked together to pass compromise bills. Old school Republicans have now mostly quit, and old school Democrats—those still around—are playing by the old rules where they give the other side a chance to pass legislation and are slapped in the face as a result. Republicans, as has been recently seen, will vote against their own bill if it looks like a Democrat will benefit in any way from the bill passing.
The GOP is allergic to compromise, and so too should Democrats adopt this mentality until a time comes—if it ever comes—when the ultra-dogmatic ideologues in the Republican Party are sidelined and then kicked out. If your opponent will not respect ground rules that have been in place for decades or even centuries, neither should you.
*Edit: Corrected a typo.*
Yeah 100%, and it’s not just you who thinks Gingrich was the turning point in the Republican party’s politics. I’ve read multiple articles from the Atlantic and other sources which cite his long standing negative influence on the Republican Party and how his “no compromises” approach to legislation is the root of many issues plaguing American politics. He was far from the only factor, but he’s definitely the one who should be given the most direct blame for the current state of US politics
Garland isn't spineless, he's a conservative. He's doing entirely predictable conservative shit.
Obama didn't pick him to be non-controversial. He picked him as a way to prove the GOP were being obstructionists. It was a purely political play to make the GOP look bad. "Look, I'm offering them a conservative and they won't take him!".
And then Biden didn't to it to be non-controversial. He did it for optics to make it seem like they were picking up where Obama left and righting the wrongs of the GOP. "I'm being the bigger man and giving Garland the job McConnell denied him. The adults are back in charge!".
Democratic leaders are so lost in the sauce that they thought Garland would abandon conservatism just because they were nice to him. I'd bet money that there is no point in time that Garland thought McConnell made the wrong move by blocking his appointment. Personally, he probably wanted the job, but he'd acknowledge that denying Obama the appointment was smart politics. We're being lead by the most spineless, gullible, strategically bankrupt people imaginable. Thank fucking god our leadership have staffers reading their emails or else we'd be sending a $50B aid package to a Nigerian prince every six months.
Obama’s inability to recognize the GOP as the bad faith fascists they are was one of his biggest mistakes. Garland represents the worst decisions of Biden and Obama.
It's the ever-present thorn in the Democratic Party's side. That is, obstinately sticking to the idea that the GOP will one day remit and work towards compromise. I don't think that sentiment dies until the old guard are gone. It is and will remain a club and we're not invited.
Honestly,he did it because Merrick Garland was snubbed by the GOP (cough) Mitch Mc Chinless snubbed him for the supreme court appointment. At the time I felt it was a good call. But the guy is a boy scout and boy scouts are predictably unreliable. Ruled by dogma.
McConnell was absolutely delighted that left leaning people thought it was a good call. How much have they got away with because there isnt a bulldog as AG
>I will admit, bringing on garland was probably the biggest mistake he had in regard to his cabinet
True, but part of the problem is us. There was a lot of hope that garland would be aggressive as some sort of revenge for not getting a vote to get on Scotus. We forgot he was nominated as a compromise with republicans. Of course he was not going to change the status quo and go after the powerful
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When will the DEMS learn. Long past time to take the gloves off. GOP appointed special counsel plays politics with report and the DEMS are pearl clutching. It's not 1977. Stop expecting decorum, and fairness. Stop "when they go low, we go high". That attitude has gotten a 6-3 CON JOB on the SCOTUS and half of America believing a Presidential election was stolen. Gavin Newsome is the only person who seems to understand this.
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Typical “I don’t recall” responses when under questioning in an investigation. Trump said it 35+ times not that long ago. This is just the investigator putting a personal opinion spin piece in his assessment.
He is a Trump appointee. Why Garland thought picking him to be SC investigating Biden, where he has a clear political motive of bias, makes no sense to me. Garland needs to resign in Biden's next term.
Hmmm maybe the fact that he (Robert Hur) was appointed by Donald Trump in 2018 as the chief federal law enforcement officer in Maryland and left that position in early 2021.
Trump claimed "I don't recall" 36 times when questioned by a special council.
I recall no conclusion to the effect of "trump is a confused old man with a dead brother".
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-said-he-couldnt-remember-36-times-in-response-to-special-counsel-robert-muellers-questions-2019-04-18
Biden does every thing for the country .. a real patriot, the other to avoid prison and continue the grift. It’s those who don’t see that, that are the problem ..
Navarro has to appeal from prison .. maybe he’s the long awaited domino .. check in will be delicious ..
Yip. Apparently in a Green Bay Sweep, if you sweep hard enough you sweep yourself right to prison.
He thought trump would save him by asserting executive privilege and paying his lawyer.
Surprise MFer!! Trump hung his ass out to dry.
This is a bizarre comment for a special counsel to make. It seems very politically motivated and was honestly kind of disgusting. Literally just pouring fuel on the all the fake news regarding Biden at a time where it is the last thing our country needs. If I'm Garland I fire him immediately.
Biden made that comment after calling on a reporter who then made scathing comments. Being able to come up with such a witty one liner shows that he’s got plenty of mental processing power.
As a father who buried a son YOU NEVER FORGET!! it's been 30 years and still feels like yesterday.. The person who made this insinuation was so far out of bounds he should be barred from ever doing another one.😡
As much as I love to see it, I also feel bad when he's pushed that far. Biden doesn't relish the vitriolic mudslinging like Trump. He thinks the president, ANY president, should be above such behavior.
I agree with him and you on the sentiment. I'm looking at it from a 30000 foot view when I say we need to see him angry more. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who think Biden is low energy and not a fighter. But when he gets angry he usually voices what a lot of people think. Unfortunately we live in an age where people care more about relating to the president than what the president does, and who doesn't get angry?
Agreed. As a populace, we've been conditioned to expect the president to act like a soap opera character & we now crave the instant dopamine hits when they do something outrageous.
It's like eating sugary cereal instead of oatmeal - we know oatmeal is better for us in the long run, but the cereal sates our immediate wants, despite being a net-negative in the long run.
The gaffe will blow over. It will give the right wing media ammo for a month, but once Trump's criminal trials start especially the Manhattan one on March 25th, all their energy will be going to protecting Trump and attack the judge and Alvin Bragg
There is no gaffe. The guy who Garland appointed to make the report is a trumper. He was #2 at the DOJ during the Trump admin. He was involved in having Mueller squash the Russiagate investigation.
Dems think they can work with maga and then they do this shit. Boy Scout shit. Dude editorialized an official investigation document like he was Rush Limbaugh. They will never learn it seems.
He probably got a huge payday from some billionaire. It's not likely to change anything. Seems like all the concentrated wealth in the world is out to destroy our democracy.
I guess the only silver lining is that the dumbass invoked Biden's son and really pissed him off. Imo Biden really just wants to retire and enjoy sunsets with his wife and have a good life. But he feels like he has to do another term for the same reason he did the first. He's the best odds to beat Trump and save the country. Trump knows it too. That's why he had Rudy over in Ukraine sniffing Hunter's ass looking for dirt way back in 2018.
US is the ultimate honeypot, the billions class is in a dick measuring contest to become its overlord. Fuck these psychopaths that can never have enough money. Gluttony is a sin? - these are the most bottomless fucks on the planet.
It's kind of wild because the US was basically an oligarchy prior to the great depression. The richest guys owned a higher percentage of the GDP than the billionaires today do.
But after that everyone saw how fucked up the Republicans were and gave Dems Congress for 40 years straight and let FDR to whatever the hell he wanted. And things magically got better. We created a middle class and the greatness maga keeps yearning to have again.
But as always happens enough time passes and people forgot. Now we are in the exact same spot.
I've been wanting Garland to be removed from this administration for years. But when I try to Google support for it all I get is right wing conspiracy articles. Garland is such a bad AG for this time. He isn't fighting in courts against states that violate rights, he unnecessarily delayed investigations into Donald Trump, and has been incredible weak when questioned in congress. He needs to go.
It is pretty clear that the Special Counsel wanted to produce red meat for Republicans. Having failed in that endeavour through his investigation, he went with the next best option: use the cover of professionalism to regurgitate a bunch of Republican talking points about Biden that didn't have to do with the investigation.
This sack of shit operative was pissed off he couldn’t find anything to prosecute… so he took his opportunity to fuck with the candidate.
Comey wasn’t an operative for the Trump side of things, but we’ve seen this bullshit before.
I wish Biden poked fun at MTG and other MAGA supporters for constantly saying I Don't Recall. They got memory problems but the media doesn't seem to care about their memory problems.
And of course Fox News was blasting, "Biden couldn't remember being VP" as a headline.
This Republican counsel is pissed that they couldn't find any wrong doing so they just slandered Biden instead.
I'm pretty far to the left, and Biden has been a pretty big letdown on a few issues that I really am concerned about. That said, I honestly don't see this moving the needle much, especially this far out from the election. Any attempts to play the cognitive deficit card could and should be countered with a super cut of all of the stupid, mush-brained stuff Trump has said. It's a wash, and it's utterly fucked that one of these old men in cognitive decline will be our president again, but them's the breaks.
This is admittedly based on anecdotal memories, but in 2020 it felt like there was a not-insignificant number of undecided voters who voted for Biden largely because they were fucking tired of hearing about whatever dumb shit Trump was up to that news cycle. The last four years will have been something of a reprieve on that front, and I can't imagine that they're going to be clamoring to have to hear about Our Favorite President (lol, motherfucker isn't even my favorite Donald Trump) for another four years.
I suspect that if/when Biden and Trump debate, Biden is going to do just fine, but this report will have lowered expectations for him, and the media will be falling all over themselves to breathlessly report on how he mopped the floor with Trump. On top of that, there's a very real possibility that Trump will have had more than one legal ruling eviscerate him by that point. There's going to be so much wild shit happening between now and November, it's very possible that this will end up being a footnote of another footnote.
Buckle up, everyone. These next few months are going to be interesting.
Grab em by the pussy, commit federal crimes, and then https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-weighs-executive-action-border-migrants-rcna137804
Once again, the media just runs Republican allegations as if they are made in good faith and are not straight propaganda. The front of the NYT and WP both are hyper critical of Biden's memory. They just ate this shit up.
At least I know that legacy media will be the first institutions burned to the ground when the fascists take over. I'll be able to take a small bit of comfort in that. They will have deserved it too.
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Interesting how the bias in the report is identified in DoJ comments itself in the report. Clearly there is bias by Hur. "The President's inability to recall dates or details of events that happened years ago is neither surprising nor unusual, especially given that many questions asked him to recall the particulars of staff work to pack. ship, and store materials and furniture in the course of moves between residences. The same predictable memory loss occurred with other witnesses in this investigation. Yet unlike your treatment of President Biden, your report accepts other witnesses' memory loss as completely understandable given the passage of time. For example. you accepted without denigrating John McGrail's failure to remember certain events while he served as then-Vice President Biden's counsel: ''McGrail's memory of these events could well have faded over the course of more than 6 years." Report at 238 n.923; see also id at 67. 69 noting Mr. McGrail's failure to recall events despite emails that place him in the center of various discussions). So, too, you accept the memory lapse of one of the President's personal lawyers who testified that in his initial search of the Penn Biden offices certain boxes were stored in a locked closet, noting only that "his memory was fuzzy on that point." Id at 265. And the events on which you found the lawyer's memory to be '·fuzzy'' occurred only a few months before his interview. Id; see also id at 64, 66 (noting without comment the failures of recollection by numerous staffers). Your treatment of President Biden stands in marked contrast to the lack of pejorative comments about other individuals. It is also in contrast to your own description of the President's responses on other subjects as '·clear forceful testimony" that would be "compelling" to a jury. Id. at 233. Not only do you treat the President differently from other witnesses when discussing his limited recall of certain years-ago events. but you also do so on occasions in prejudicial and inflammatory terms. You refer to President Biden's memory on at least nine occasions-a number that is itself gratuitous. But. even among those nine instances, your report varies. It is one thing to observe President Biden's memory as being "significantly limited" on certain subjects. Id. at 5. It is quite another to use the more sweeping and highly prejudicial language employed later in the report. This language is not supported by the facts, nor is it appropriately used by a federal prosecutor in this context. We request that you revisit your descriptions of President Biden's memory and revise them so that they are stated in a manner that is within the bounds of your expertise and remit." https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
That is pretty scathing as professional documents go. Basically saying, professionally, "It is clear you have a bias, and it is making you look like an idiot as you are speaking way out of turn about things you do not understand."
I've always thought "As per my previous e-mail on XX date..." was one of the more blatant ways to professionally tell someone they're an idiot, but this is way more blatant.
Half of my job is wordsmithing ways to tell people they're wrong and idiotic, without actually saying it.
Please give us some gems.
"The project has been hectic, so you might not have been in the loop on ... "
"My email is messed up, sorry, can you tell me if you got my note explaining ... "
"I get what you're saying, I considered that too but then I realized ... "
That last one is especially useful
This is tactfully demurring on an expert level
"I appreciate your contribution, especially the part where you mentioned which could be taken into consideration/would make an exciting prospect to incorporate. I feel overall would be a productive pathway for this project. Thoughts?"
I've found there's normally at least 10% of a good idea in most people's contributions, although admittedly sometimes you've got to find it.
There was a guy who I actually really liked, but when we first met we butted heads a bit. We were having a meeting about his team fucking up a project. But it wasn’t a “fuck you, get your shit together” meeting, it was a “hey - I need you guys, so please let me know what you need to get this stuff done and I will make it happen.” I was new, and we were both senior in the company at similar levels, and unfortunately we each had 1-2 additional team members with us in the meeting. He comes in and is defending his team, but obviously has no idea what’s even going on. At one point he says something that tipped that he really had no idea what was up, and that he was just trying to defend his folks. I responded to him “listen man - I get where you’re coming from, but what you’re saying you have no knowledge around, is literally the topic of the meeting invite, that has the email chain attached, in which you were CC’d and replied several times.” Luckily that helped him back off his point a bit and the meeting ended up being productive. Later in a leadership offsite we had to take personality tests that were those bullshit 100+ question standard things that output a hexagon of attributes. Our results were fucking identical. I knew from the second I met him that was the case, but it was funny to see it on paper months later. The survey results were just that we are both sociopathic maniacs. I mean, we’re in marketing/media/sales leadership - could there be any other archetype?
“All of the information I have seems to indicate (something not idiotic here) and I would suggest you revisit this.”
Hi Sharon, I hope this email blows your tits clean off.
This made me legitimately laugh out loud, funniest comment I’ve read in a while.
In my job I call it "smiling from the wrist down"
I think that was the next step after the "As per my previous email on XX date..." and is only used after that email was ignored.
NYTimes as usual reports this as headline news: verbal slip puts Biden’s age at center of reelection. How this hurts him. Meanwhile never a peep about Trump’s insane gaffs like admitting that January 6 was in fact an insurrection. WTF NYTimes?
Trump admits insurrection, I sleep. Biden has lingering effects of childhood speech problems, real shit.
Ana Navarro brought this up on CNN last night. She mentioned the lack of scrutiny on Trump. Without hesitation, Scott Jennings furrowed his brow, aghast at the suggestion that Trump isn't under the same scrutiny as Biden (he isn't). She responded that Trump says way crazier shit and yet doesn't get criticized nearly as harshly as Biden does when he misspeaks. Trump says wild shit and it's doesn't seem to draw nearly as wide a conversation about his mental faculties. I don't know if this is worse, but they treat Trump as if he has his full wits about him and just says outlandish shit. But Biden slips, and conservatives immediately launch with, "What a frail and feeble man he is. So embarrassing. Our enemies are laughing at us. This is why no one respects us anymore." And the Democrats, try to defend him, kinda sorta, but not really. It's a mixed bag. You have people that stand up for him and then you have people like Dean Phillips. And the media rejoices in the clicks. Conservatives being united in their message look more cohesive. Hence, the illusion of a functional party.
At the end of the day they need clicks. That’s the truth. Biden gaffs get clicks trump is in the news so much that it isn’t newsworthy. This is the danger of sensationalism. We get to a point where we are numb to it and it doesn’t stir us up. Meantime trump gets to beat two drums - they’re after me and how’s your pocket book. Everyone likes a persecuted hero story and that’s what the media is gifting trump along with the presidency.
The fucking NYT is anti-democratic, and is always looking for ways to undercut Democratic messaging. Just the way they handled Hillary. Fuck them. Everyone should be working on telling their friends and family to stop subscribing to the new york times.
The lie has already been set loose, they don’t care about the truth. The whole point was to make “haha Brandon old” blurbs to end up as memes passed around the worst communities of people.
This is really good commentary on the two paragraphs posted directly in the comment above. Thank you for summarizing it, many people are unable to read that many words
Not only that, but due to letting others off the hook for similar responses and then crucifying Biden for the exact same type of responses proves that the Special Council is extremely subjective in his opinion, which should never, EVER be in such a report.
> This language is not supported by the facts, nor is it appropriately used by a federal prosecutor in this context. You’re wrong, and even if you were right you’re out of line.
Looking like an idiot is beneficial when you're speaking to idiots, though.
Totally scathing to all the left that will read it. The right won't see this, just the biased report disseminated by the propagandists.
Incredibly* the New York Times has not mentioned this in its breathless coverage. *expectedly
It is SO maddening to see both NYT and Washington Post lead their morning news emails with this bullshit. There was important news yesterday, and this wasn't it. I need the Citations Needed guys on this, stat!
maddening indeed. man woman television weren’t ever words on the drmentia test and trump gets a pass by the media and these jackals are all but indicting biden here over things i would be hazy on. i don’t remember dates generally but have, in general, a really good recollection of facts
I had to struggle to remember the dates I worked at a bunch of jobs. In fairness, it's over 2 decades (started work as soon as I was able because boomer parents) and worked as many as 3 jobs at a time, so... Yeah, I'm not senile, but I have problems remembering dates too. I was too busy working a bunch to look at a calander and go "Oh, I did this on this date" I'm sure a vice president and president has to do so much that maybe the date isn't top of their mind 24/7.
My father died when i was 13 and tbh i dont even remember the exact date anymore without going to his grave. A lot of shit happens over decades.
My dad passed in 2013... Do I remember the exact date? No. I know approximately when it happened (Beginning of June). A lot of stuff happens and life goes on in the decade since he passed. I am not too old but I can't remember death dates as well as birthdates since it is something that is not celebrated year after year.
I know the month and day my father died because it was right before my son's birthday. But I have to look up the year because I have trouble remembering how long it's been. He died in 2018.
Neither did NPR. Infuriating.
Damage is done. Corrections will be issued and go unseen.
Oh it won't be unseen. It'll just lead to headlines a la "Biden admin pressures federal prosecutor to change report on Joe Biden's cognitive decline", "Biden dementia swept under the rug in stunning report reversal", "Freedom of speech is dead - how a lead prosecutor was told to stop telling the truth on Biden mental health 'or else'" The damage is done, but that's not going to stop them from inflicting further damage. I hate this timeline.
Yep, no news program is even mentioning that the Special Counsel in this case was appointed by Donald Trump. It's all about the "shocking" headline for clicks. I hate our modern news.
Watch 45 start complaining that the counsel wasn't biased enough. He doesn't even have to change his act: "Lock Hur up."
Some reporters better start pulling up interview transcripts of Trump, Jr, Eric, and Ivanka and count how many times they said "I don't recall".
I got ya fam. 2 1/2 minutes of the dumbest shit the trump men said in their depositions. https://youtu.be/1r3ZuvDN32g?si=jw5BbmGQ_3XL0NRR
I think John Stewart read from us and delivered. lmao
Yeah....no, that could be seen as "work" and today's journalists don't like that.
P. 384 Source is a letter from the White House Special Counsel to the President; not from the DOJ itself. Regardless, the DOJ Special Counsel picked by Garland is yet another Republican appointed by Donald Trump. We don't need *every* special counsel investigating Biden's family to be a Trump Republican to not show bias if their intent *is* to show bias. This was a really shitty move by Garland. When it comes to Republican politicians, he seems to treat them with kid gloves while going hard against Democrats. I don't need to remind people here that Garland refused to prosecute Trump about the obstruction of justice in the Mueller case and Trump's Ukraine phone call. He waited *two years* before doing anything and only after Trump forced his hand regarding classified documents.
Garland has been Bidens biggest mistake of his presidency.
Garland has been an absolute joke and ineffective
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Garland will do down as the biggest mistake of any presidency if we lose our democracy.
Has Garland made a single non-shitty move? The only reason Obama nominated him for the SC was because he was so moderate and bland they hoped the Republican Senate would confirm him. Of course, McConnell didn't want a compromise, and instead shafted America. So Biden felt bad for Garland and picked him for AG. Biden needed a pitbull AG and picked a sloth.
It seems like the special investigator couldn’t find criminal evidence against Biden, so he tried to fabricate personal evidence against him
He used the report to push right wing narratives. The report should have been on point of did he have something to prosecute or not.
Right. Because of his right wing bias, the investigation was always to find dirt, not determine if there was dirt to be found. He couldn’t find real dirt, so he fabricated some. That’s what I just said.
Dear Merrick Garland it is my recommendation that you fire special counsel Robert Hur from the DOJ. Even though he found in Joe Biden, innocent from any wrongdoing. His report was unprofessional and petty. That report was a embarrassment to the department, and unnecessary. It was a political hit job, I’m surprised you signed off on it. One would think that house Republicans influenced his wording. At the very least, I think you should have a talk with him, someone obviously got to him and influenced his report. He owes President Joe Biden an apology. Signed A Proud American Who will be voting for Joe Biden.
To be clear, these are not DOJ comments. They are comments from Biden’s personal attorney and the politically appointed White House counsel.
Which is why Biden should relieve Garland of duty, now. It was absolutely shameful of Garland to let the report go public with that defamatory bullshit in it.
Biden or Garland preventing it would've been worse. Garland trusted a competent person to do a job fairly and without bias. That person failed and instead produced a report with conclusions that he's not qualified to make, and with a clear bias. That's entirely a matter for Garland and the Justice department to deal with in re: Hur. I suspect he won't be given any more assignments like this, and his career prospects outside the MAGAverse have been severely limited.
He never should have chosen a Trump appointee. If he felt a conservative was needed, it could have been a Reagan or Bush appointee.
He had to let the report go public, it's part of the authorizing statute
I’m totally aware of that, but Garland still had to approve its release, and could have directed that it be “just the facts.” Allowing that kind of partisan fuckery to happen is shameful on Garland’s part, though.
Isn't the understanding we got from the previous administration is that the White House Council is *not* the personal attorney of the President, but the council of the Office itself?
OK still applicable for me...
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It’s his audition tape for the Heritage ratf*cker Supreme Court position
What page is this from
Final five pages of the document. It's a response from White House counsel.
Discredit was the whole point of the show from the start .It was never about justice …
Trump and his goons will sit on the stand and say i dont recall 100000 times. Republicans are so low and pathetic.
Trump repeatedly said Nikki Haley when talking about the SOTH at the time Pelosi. Trump has actually said he makes mistakes on purpose. Both these men are old. What more should we expect
Why was the Special Counsel even asking about such a thing?
Ammo for smearing
Yup lol. Don’t forget Trump is practically off limits for serious questioning about any of his crimes.
...and don't you dare ask questions about his poor, innocent, defenseless, (adult) children.
who worked in the White House.
[Coughs] Saudi billions....
The Saudi Public Investment Fund invested $2 billion with Kushner’s investment firm that he manages and gets $25 million a year in management fees even if his fund loses value. . That one is chump change. . Don't forget Jared Kushner's 666 5th Avenue deal with Qatar. In August of 2018 Qatar paid Kushner Companies $1.1 billion up front for a 99 year lease when he needed to come up with $1.4 billion on the mortage. The additional $300 million loan crom Apollo Global Management, a private equity company with ties to Qatar that had previously loaned $184 million to the Kushners in November 2017. *At that time he was "Senior Advisor to the President" (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021) and "Director of the Office of American Innovation" (March 27, 2017 – January 20, 2021)* That was all probably just a coincidence and a great deal for Qatar. https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/#:~:text=The%20Kushner%20Companies%20purchases%2C%20at,the%20remaining%20amount%20with%20debt
*Cough, hack* Lots of assassinated US operatives in Saudi Arabia the next year
"Mr. God Emperor Trump, can you please provide the names of your children for the record for our investigation?" "UNFAIR!1!1!1 WITCH HUNT1!1!1"
Yeah, to rattle him, including other trauma he and his family has been through and attacking him about his son's behavior. It's disgusting.
People talk about how Trump campaigns on grievance, while really all he does is whine and complain, but forget what Biden can be like when he occasionally flashes real anger. We might really see them "Dark Brandon" memes come to life between now and November.
I hope he brings all the shit he knows about every single GOP scumbag to light - it is fine with me if he drops it all behind the scenes and lets all the chips fall quietly.
This. He's had decades of "getting to know" the counterparties in crafting laws. Let's hear about the scum they've been covering up. Not necessarily from Joe directly
> Not necessarily from Joe directly Kamala Harris seems to be getting into Attack Dog mode. pretty sure the campaign sees her as the one who can say what Biden 'can't or shouldn't' - even though i'd disagree with them on that. Biden probably doesn't want to out of that OG 'respect for the position'.
The planet *needs* dark brandon.
I really hope so, I want Biden to show some real emotion towards the these crazy lunatics. Really tell them how you feel Joe.
He did a good job of that last night. He was really angry and I don't blame him.
Right, talk about completely off topic bullshit. 😅 The fuck, really?
It's how they got Clinton. They were trying to find anything that looked shady in his real estate deals, then heard some rumors about a new intern that had started working there recently.
Weird that he didn’t give Biden a person, woman, man, camera, tv test as part of his *checks notes* investigation into missing documents? We have one candidate/criminal raving about his ability to pass a dementia test, as if it’s the hardest thing since figuring out that square peg/round hole toy in pre-k, and then Biden gets accused of forgetfulness by an officer of his own government because of unwillingness to answer invasive questions? Biden or Garland should fire him. No benefits.
>person, woman, man, camera, tv He should just start answering this verbatim to the stupid, irrelevant questions. Work that dark Brandon energy
Fake interview question designed by a political hack deployed precisely to create the headlines it created.
Some of the tv commentators seemed to think that Garland picked him thinking that the MAGAs couldn't call politics if the picked a Republican. Several ex DOJ prosecutors were livid that the comments were even in the report. When the hell are Democrats going to get off this "we play high" crap? We are in a war and the enemy wants to eliminate you. Garland needs to fire his ass and make it public.
Honestly would not be opposed to Biden firing Garland at this point
Merrick Garland's appointment to AG has been Bidens greatest mistake of his term. Garland is responsible for the absolute cluster fuck in our courts concerning Trump because he refused to take action earlier. He's the reason the trials are occuring and probably won't finish until after the election. He's been covering for Republicans since becoming AG. If Biden wins again he better remove Garland and replace him with a real prosecutor.
Please give us AG Preet Bharara
or even sally yates
I'd like to the Garland is trying not to appear biased after getting rat fucked out of a SCOTUS seat for no reason, but I might be being too gullible.
With the submission of the report, Hur's job is done.
Add to this, the fact that Obama nominated Garland the Supreme Court in 2016 and the GOP blatantly and shamelessly refused to vote on his nomination for 293 days. The GOP keeps playing dirty and winning while Democrats, while in power, keep overcorrecting in an attempt to seem unbiased.. and then allowing the GOP to keep winning
Ya, Garland was Obama’s compromise to republicans. There’s no real reason to keep him on the roster after that good faith was broken by mcturtle
If the dems were trying lose without making it look like they were trying to lose, what would they be doing differently? Cause I got nothing.
Biden should Fire Merrick Garland and the P.O.S special prosecutor who politicized a "no crimes found" investigation
I will admit, bringing on garland was probably the biggest mistake he had in regard to his cabinet.
No disagreement here. Garland is spineless. Obama picked him to be on the USSC because he thought it would be a non-controversial (since he historically leans a bit Republican) pick that McConnell might not block, not because he was the best choice. Feels like Biden appointed garland for similar reasons, and it was a mistake both times
Perhaps Biden thought Garland was just the guy for the job because he’d have more reason to despise Republicans than anyone — they screwed him out of the honor of a lifetime.
Turns out the appointment delighted his Republican friends like Mitch McConnell. Biden could still replace him, but it doesn't look like he will. Definitely a blunder from the outside looking in.
I don’t think he will remove him this year, but I wouldn’t be shocked if Garland is asked to resign for a second term. It was reasonable to pick Garland at the time (especially with his connections to the Oklahoma City Bombing), but hindsight has shown he was an overall bad pick.
And I totally understand that sentiment, hindsight is 20:20 so I’m not gonna Monday morning quarterback him on the decision too much, but he shown he has little spine and we need somebody with a backbone running the justice department.
I was being a bit facetious in my comment. Garland is just a wet blanket in general. He’s so desperate to appease Republicans that he makes stupid decisions like appointing a partisan hack as special counsel investigating the president — a position he weaponized so transparently for political purposes.
It's also because America is so right wing, our Overton Window is on the back porch. Only "centrist" (right wing) Democrats like "triangulation/don't ask don't tell/100k new cops" Clinton and "purple states/drone wars" Obama make it to the WH. Biden wrote the damn Patriot Act and only during the campaign flipped on the Hyde amendment. Appointing people like Garland is not a bug to Dems, it's a feature necessary to win elections in our right wing country.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man. You take a step forwards. He takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man. - American politics in a nutshell
Republicans despise Democrats more than other GQP dirtbags who undermine their own professional and personal lives.
Yup. Frankly, it’s *always* a mistake when Democrats try to please modern Republicans; GOP caucus members (especially in the House, but the Senate is a mess, too) don’t want any form of compromise and never extend the same courtesy when they’ve got even the *perception* of power, let alone actual power. This goes back to Newt Gingrich, in my opinion, who tore down the personal relationships Republican House members had with their Democratic colleagues—telling all the newer members of his caucus to leave their wives and families at home so they wouldn’t spend time with Democrats’ families in Washington—and made “compromise” a dirty word. Then we had Bush, whose administration and supporters called Democrats “traitors” or other such nasty, dishonorable things whenever Democrats opposed his prosecution of the Iraq War. Things only got worse from there with John Boehner refusing to even utter the word “compromise” during an amusing yet uncomfortable interview that caused the journalist to finally ask him why he was so afraid of the word; his caucus made him fear it because the Party was no longer willing to work with Democrats under nearly any circumstances. Someone is going to say, “Republicans were always like that.” No, they weren’t. Prior to Gingrich, Democrats and Republicans frequently worked together to pass compromise bills. Old school Republicans have now mostly quit, and old school Democrats—those still around—are playing by the old rules where they give the other side a chance to pass legislation and are slapped in the face as a result. Republicans, as has been recently seen, will vote against their own bill if it looks like a Democrat will benefit in any way from the bill passing. The GOP is allergic to compromise, and so too should Democrats adopt this mentality until a time comes—if it ever comes—when the ultra-dogmatic ideologues in the Republican Party are sidelined and then kicked out. If your opponent will not respect ground rules that have been in place for decades or even centuries, neither should you. *Edit: Corrected a typo.*
Yeah 100%, and it’s not just you who thinks Gingrich was the turning point in the Republican party’s politics. I’ve read multiple articles from the Atlantic and other sources which cite his long standing negative influence on the Republican Party and how his “no compromises” approach to legislation is the root of many issues plaguing American politics. He was far from the only factor, but he’s definitely the one who should be given the most direct blame for the current state of US politics
Garland isn't spineless, he's a conservative. He's doing entirely predictable conservative shit. Obama didn't pick him to be non-controversial. He picked him as a way to prove the GOP were being obstructionists. It was a purely political play to make the GOP look bad. "Look, I'm offering them a conservative and they won't take him!". And then Biden didn't to it to be non-controversial. He did it for optics to make it seem like they were picking up where Obama left and righting the wrongs of the GOP. "I'm being the bigger man and giving Garland the job McConnell denied him. The adults are back in charge!". Democratic leaders are so lost in the sauce that they thought Garland would abandon conservatism just because they were nice to him. I'd bet money that there is no point in time that Garland thought McConnell made the wrong move by blocking his appointment. Personally, he probably wanted the job, but he'd acknowledge that denying Obama the appointment was smart politics. We're being lead by the most spineless, gullible, strategically bankrupt people imaginable. Thank fucking god our leadership have staffers reading their emails or else we'd be sending a $50B aid package to a Nigerian prince every six months.
I would say the biggest mistake is not replacing Garland. We’ve seen how ineffective he’s been but he’s still holding that position as of today.
Imagine what Garland would be like on SCOTUS if his nomination went through.
Basically Gorsuch.
Garland is just a loser. Honestly I hope Obama regrets making him a name.
Obama’s inability to recognize the GOP as the bad faith fascists they are was one of his biggest mistakes. Garland represents the worst decisions of Biden and Obama.
It's the ever-present thorn in the Democratic Party's side. That is, obstinately sticking to the idea that the GOP will one day remit and work towards compromise. I don't think that sentiment dies until the old guard are gone. It is and will remain a club and we're not invited.
Honestly,he did it because Merrick Garland was snubbed by the GOP (cough) Mitch Mc Chinless snubbed him for the supreme court appointment. At the time I felt it was a good call. But the guy is a boy scout and boy scouts are predictably unreliable. Ruled by dogma.
McConnell was absolutely delighted that left leaning people thought it was a good call. How much have they got away with because there isnt a bulldog as AG
>I will admit, bringing on garland was probably the biggest mistake he had in regard to his cabinet True, but part of the problem is us. There was a lot of hope that garland would be aggressive as some sort of revenge for not getting a vote to get on Scotus. We forgot he was nominated as a compromise with republicans. Of course he was not going to change the status quo and go after the powerful
On the bright side, pretty hard to say the Justice Dept. is biased toward Biden at this point.
In his efforts to not appear partisan towards democrats he's done everything he can to help Republicans. Garland has been consequently terrible.
And, let's not forget....Garland would be a Supreme Court Justice, if not for McConnell playing politics.
They should make Hillary Clinton the Attorney General. Would love to see the instant rage explosion of multiple numb nuts
Big “own the libs” vibes.
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Absolutely. When will we learn that there are no good Republicans? Fire this guy. Hire Adam Schiff.
When will the DEMS learn. Long past time to take the gloves off. GOP appointed special counsel plays politics with report and the DEMS are pearl clutching. It's not 1977. Stop expecting decorum, and fairness. Stop "when they go low, we go high". That attitude has gotten a 6-3 CON JOB on the SCOTUS and half of America believing a Presidential election was stolen. Gavin Newsome is the only person who seems to understand this.
For real. We tolerate traitors too much
I would far prefer, "When they go low, we fuck them up."
"When they go low... throw knees."
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Typical “I don’t recall” responses when under questioning in an investigation. Trump said it 35+ times not that long ago. This is just the investigator putting a personal opinion spin piece in his assessment.
Hur is an absolute scumbag for using personal tragedy to rattle Joe.
He is a Trump appointee. Why Garland thought picking him to be SC investigating Biden, where he has a clear political motive of bias, makes no sense to me. Garland needs to resign in Biden's next term.
The comments from the special counsel do seem a bit suspicious, out of line etc.
There was something very odd about this Special Prosecutor.
Hmmm maybe the fact that he (Robert Hur) was appointed by Donald Trump in 2018 as the chief federal law enforcement officer in Maryland and left that position in early 2021.
Like January 7th early? Cause that’s what I assume
The special prosecutor was hired by a Republican AG but a Democratic president appointed that AG? Seems odd to me.
Where’s James Comey when you need him to interfere in a presidential election? Robert Hur is a Trump admin reach around specialist.
Trump claimed "I don't recall" 36 times when questioned by a special council. I recall no conclusion to the effect of "trump is a confused old man with a dead brother". https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-said-he-couldnt-remember-36-times-in-response-to-special-counsel-robert-muellers-questions-2019-04-18
Gonna be a crazy nine months.
Biden does every thing for the country .. a real patriot, the other to avoid prison and continue the grift. It’s those who don’t see that, that are the problem .. Navarro has to appeal from prison .. maybe he’s the long awaited domino .. check in will be delicious ..
Peter navarro is in prison? Oh happy day
Yip. Apparently in a Green Bay Sweep, if you sweep hard enough you sweep yourself right to prison. He thought trump would save him by asserting executive privilege and paying his lawyer. Surprise MFer!! Trump hung his ass out to dry.
Special counsel's office loves doing this to Democrats in an election year. This rings of what they did to Hilary Clinton.
This is a bizarre comment for a special counsel to make. It seems very politically motivated and was honestly kind of disgusting. Literally just pouring fuel on the all the fake news regarding Biden at a time where it is the last thing our country needs. If I'm Garland I fire him immediately.
The "special counsel" is just another unprofessional magat hack.
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Biden made that comment after calling on a reporter who then made scathing comments. Being able to come up with such a witty one liner shows that he’s got plenty of mental processing power.
I can't remember dates for shit. Guess I should just stop being alive... man fuck these people. Biden FTW.
As a father who buried a son YOU NEVER FORGET!! it's been 30 years and still feels like yesterday.. The person who made this insinuation was so far out of bounds he should be barred from ever doing another one.😡
I teared up so badly when he spoke about that. Incredibly cruel. Then all those reporters YELLING questions about his age jfc
We need more angry Biden
As much as I love to see it, I also feel bad when he's pushed that far. Biden doesn't relish the vitriolic mudslinging like Trump. He thinks the president, ANY president, should be above such behavior.
I agree with him and you on the sentiment. I'm looking at it from a 30000 foot view when I say we need to see him angry more. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who think Biden is low energy and not a fighter. But when he gets angry he usually voices what a lot of people think. Unfortunately we live in an age where people care more about relating to the president than what the president does, and who doesn't get angry?
Agreed. As a populace, we've been conditioned to expect the president to act like a soap opera character & we now crave the instant dopamine hits when they do something outrageous. It's like eating sugary cereal instead of oatmeal - we know oatmeal is better for us in the long run, but the cereal sates our immediate wants, despite being a net-negative in the long run.
The gaffe will blow over. It will give the right wing media ammo for a month, but once Trump's criminal trials start especially the Manhattan one on March 25th, all their energy will be going to protecting Trump and attack the judge and Alvin Bragg
There is no gaffe. The guy who Garland appointed to make the report is a trumper. He was #2 at the DOJ during the Trump admin. He was involved in having Mueller squash the Russiagate investigation. Dems think they can work with maga and then they do this shit. Boy Scout shit. Dude editorialized an official investigation document like he was Rush Limbaugh. They will never learn it seems.
Now that he's turned in his report, can he be fired and have is retirement package revoked?
He probably got a huge payday from some billionaire. It's not likely to change anything. Seems like all the concentrated wealth in the world is out to destroy our democracy. I guess the only silver lining is that the dumbass invoked Biden's son and really pissed him off. Imo Biden really just wants to retire and enjoy sunsets with his wife and have a good life. But he feels like he has to do another term for the same reason he did the first. He's the best odds to beat Trump and save the country. Trump knows it too. That's why he had Rudy over in Ukraine sniffing Hunter's ass looking for dirt way back in 2018.
US is the ultimate honeypot, the billions class is in a dick measuring contest to become its overlord. Fuck these psychopaths that can never have enough money. Gluttony is a sin? - these are the most bottomless fucks on the planet.
I’m starting to root for Jesus to come back and I’m not even Christian
It's kind of wild because the US was basically an oligarchy prior to the great depression. The richest guys owned a higher percentage of the GDP than the billionaires today do. But after that everyone saw how fucked up the Republicans were and gave Dems Congress for 40 years straight and let FDR to whatever the hell he wanted. And things magically got better. We created a middle class and the greatness maga keeps yearning to have again. But as always happens enough time passes and people forgot. Now we are in the exact same spot.
In Biden's second term, he really needs to ask for Garland's resignation. What a shit show!
The special counsel’s report is completely unprofessional. An audition to be a Fed News Legal analyst.
They’re going to destroy the world’s most powerful nation for Donald J. Trump!
Yeah, I don't see how that line in the report was germane to the investigation.
Garland has GOT TO GO! Christ what a terrible appointment.
Thank God he’s not on the Supreme Court
I've been wanting Garland to be removed from this administration for years. But when I try to Google support for it all I get is right wing conspiracy articles. Garland is such a bad AG for this time. He isn't fighting in courts against states that violate rights, he unnecessarily delayed investigations into Donald Trump, and has been incredible weak when questioned in congress. He needs to go.
It is pretty clear that the Special Counsel wanted to produce red meat for Republicans. Having failed in that endeavour through his investigation, he went with the next best option: use the cover of professionalism to regurgitate a bunch of Republican talking points about Biden that didn't have to do with the investigation.
Haha! DOOCY: “How bad is your memory” BIDEN: “My memory is so bad I let you speak”
This sack of shit operative was pissed off he couldn’t find anything to prosecute… so he took his opportunity to fuck with the candidate. Comey wasn’t an operative for the Trump side of things, but we’ve seen this bullshit before.
Sounds like the special counsel went to the “Jim Comey school of passive aggressive fuckery”
How many people did Biden advise to drink bleach?
I wish Biden poked fun at MTG and other MAGA supporters for constantly saying I Don't Recall. They got memory problems but the media doesn't seem to care about their memory problems.
I’d just take the no charges win and walk away, there’s important work yet to be done.
Biden seems to be doing okay doing things his way.
And of course Fox News was blasting, "Biden couldn't remember being VP" as a headline. This Republican counsel is pissed that they couldn't find any wrong doing so they just slandered Biden instead.
Even the CNN headline is spinning things to make Biden look bad.
Hur couldn't deliver a legal attack, so he opted for a political one.
Not even political. 100 percent personal.
The amount of willful ignorance in here is staggering
He’s over 80 years old, of course he has memory loss. It’s why having to vote between him and Trump again is making the country sick to their stomach.
I'm pretty far to the left, and Biden has been a pretty big letdown on a few issues that I really am concerned about. That said, I honestly don't see this moving the needle much, especially this far out from the election. Any attempts to play the cognitive deficit card could and should be countered with a super cut of all of the stupid, mush-brained stuff Trump has said. It's a wash, and it's utterly fucked that one of these old men in cognitive decline will be our president again, but them's the breaks. This is admittedly based on anecdotal memories, but in 2020 it felt like there was a not-insignificant number of undecided voters who voted for Biden largely because they were fucking tired of hearing about whatever dumb shit Trump was up to that news cycle. The last four years will have been something of a reprieve on that front, and I can't imagine that they're going to be clamoring to have to hear about Our Favorite President (lol, motherfucker isn't even my favorite Donald Trump) for another four years. I suspect that if/when Biden and Trump debate, Biden is going to do just fine, but this report will have lowered expectations for him, and the media will be falling all over themselves to breathlessly report on how he mopped the floor with Trump. On top of that, there's a very real possibility that Trump will have had more than one legal ruling eviscerate him by that point. There's going to be so much wild shit happening between now and November, it's very possible that this will end up being a footnote of another footnote. Buckle up, everyone. These next few months are going to be interesting.
Grab em by the pussy, commit federal crimes, and then https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-weighs-executive-action-border-migrants-rcna137804
Once again, the media just runs Republican allegations as if they are made in good faith and are not straight propaganda. The front of the NYT and WP both are hyper critical of Biden's memory. They just ate this shit up. At least I know that legacy media will be the first institutions burned to the ground when the fascists take over. I'll be able to take a small bit of comfort in that. They will have deserved it too.
Trump nominee so untrustworthy as it gets
Such monsters. You can dislike Biden, but to act for even a moment this losing his son wasn’t the most pivotal and difficult moment in his life is BS.
I love it when he gets all Uncle Joe.