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Biden Blasted for Abuse of Executive Privilege

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Posted By: Imright, 5/16/2024 1:33:40 PM

As Spencer reported Thursday morning, President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over his audio interviews with former Special Counsel Robert Hur. Publicly released transcripts, in addition to Hur's investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified information, revealed serious memory loss and confusion from the President. (X) But Biden's executive privilege claim is being blasted as a coverup and abuse of power. (X's Videos) Given the White House Counsel's reasoning, which was reiterated by Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday morning, the claims of abuse are right on target -- especially for political purposes in an election year.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Quigley 5/16/2024 1:52:28 PM (No. 1719114)
It seems to me that the release of the transcript waived all privilege with regard to content of the transcript. You can’t assert privilege anew with the release of a copy of the materials already released. Does privilege extend to body language? Will a court have to distinguish between a privileged pause and a non privileged pause? A privileged rolling of the eyes versus a non privileged one?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jar 5/16/2024 2:31:06 PM (No. 1719131)
Take the text version together with AI, insert Joe's voice, add pauses, stumbles, garbled speech, confusion, etc., and make a commercial.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/16/2024 3:14:45 PM (No. 1719160)
Anyone old enough to remember the Watergate era, "Nixon Oval Office Tapes?" There's enough leftist hypocrisy here to power a spaceship to Mars and back at light speed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hershey 5/16/2024 4:08:18 PM (No. 1719197)
Just being an illegitimallay elected president is enough of an abuse
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Reply 5 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/16/2024 6:04:07 PM (No. 1719239)
Pure nonsense. Joe Biden was a Senator or VP while he was pilfering classified documents, and had no executive privilege.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: skacmar 5/16/2024 7:07:55 PM (No. 1719256)
If the Supreme Court rules against Trump in the Executive Privilege case, it should also effect Biden's claim of privilege. Biden's waiving Executive Privilege in Trump's case will then backfire on him. Once again, Democrats, so eager to "get Trump" seem to have forgotten the consequences of their actions coming back to bite them in the long term. It would be instant Karma if the ruling force Biden to release the tapes. After all, nobody is above the law (as Democrats are so fond of saying)!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 5/16/2024 9:02:40 PM (No. 1719297)
Is that what they are calling treason these days? Our ancestors had a simple fix for that.
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