‘Crazy like a fox’ Biden shows selective memory in – Latest News
There is a deeper scandal than Biden’s cognitive impairment in the belatedly launched audio recording of particular counsel Robert Hur interviewing the then-president in October 2023 over his unlawful retention of labeled paperwork.
Hur had Biden cold on the identical federal felonies particular counsel Jack Smith charged Donald Trump with simply 4 months earlier.
In the initial 13-minute section of the Hur tapes launched late Friday, Biden meanders and might’t keep in mind essential dates, reflecting a narrative that helps Hur’s handy conclusion that he was guilty, however unfit for trial: an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
There is a deeper scandal than Biden’s cognitive impairment in the belatedly launched audio recording of Robert Hur interviewing the then-president over his unlawful retention of labeled paperwork, columnist Miranda Devine writes. Getty Images
But the complete audio paints a completely different image: Biden is in command of the details when it fits him, however grows imprecise and filibusters each time he perceives the prosecutors are building a lure. Crazy like a fox.
His lawyer, Bob Bauer, one of 5 attorneys nursing him by way of the interview, interrupts each time Biden would possibly incriminate himself and laughs like a hyena when his consumer will get feisty or cracks a sarcastic joke on the prosecutors’ expense.
At one level, Hur says: “You appear to have a photographic recall,” after Biden spent 12 minutes describing the format of his home in excruciating element.
You can hear the prosecutors’ frustration — they’re in a constitutional straitjacket and confronted with a five-hour time restrict. Biden reminds them out of the gate that he has simply bought off the telephone with Bibi Netanyahu, discussing the Oct. 7 assault on Israel the day past, to remind them they’re maintaining him from important business.
The backside line is Biden lies all through. He denies maintaining labeled materials for his personal use as a result of he’s so upright and honorable.
Yet prosecutors discovered reams of it in his home, storage, and Biden-Penn Center workplace. They had a recorded dialog together with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer in which Biden mentioned he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs” in the basement of his Virginia home.
In the interview, not carried out beneath oath, Biden says he had nothing to do with packing up his vice presidential residence on Jan. 7, 2017, or transferring bins containing labeled materials to his flashy new digs in Virginia. He claims his employees did all of it with out his enter.
But Hur knew Biden was “personally involved in the move.”
“He selected [the furniture], directed some of the packing, and was personally present for the entirety of the move,” the Hur Report states. “One military aide recalled seeing him ‘packing by himself’ and ‘just him moving his stuff one at a time into the . . . truck’ at the Naval Observatory on moving day, and Secret Service agents saw Mr. Biden ‘moving boxes’ at the ‘Virginia house’ during the weekend of his move into that house.”
They had caught him red-handed.
But now they have been confronted with a dilemma: Do they discover the sitting president criminally liable and label him a pathological liar, inflicting a large scandal and constitutional disaster?
Or do they use his age and mental fog as an excuse to not charge him?
Pretty clear which was the better path.
