The release of the audio of Hur’s interrogation of Joe Biden
Now that the audio of the Hur interviews with Biden has been released, there’s a lot of talk about what it reveals. (see this, for example). Nothing on the recording should surprise anyone on the right. Biden’s state of mind is not the real scandal; the real scandal is the failure of the previous administration to release the audio, the smear campaign previously mounted by the left against Hur, and the extent and duration of the coverup of Biden’s cognitive failures in general and not just his failures with Hur.
Here’s the full audio; it’s long:
Here’s a short excerpt:
His condition is painful, although he’s clearly not totally out of it.
One of the many things I’ve thought about as a result Biden’s cognitive problems during his entire presidency, and especially the latter half of it, is that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is useless without an honest group of people to activate it. We didn’t have that in the Biden administration, to say the least. We had conspiracy and collusion to keep his deficits from the American people, and we had a press that was an active part of it.
It’s a reminder that no laws, no Constitution, can protect a country if its rulers and its press don’t have integrity.
So many questions…
First the trickle of oddities like the “autopen” pardons. Then we have stream of “We wuz bamboozled by the Bidens” books from the complicit media. Now the interview drop.
All I want to know is, “Who was really running the country?”
“is that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is useless without an honest group of people to activate it.”
Yes. I thought that often during the last administration. Maybe there need to be a few more options.
Yet, will the spineless GOP do anything? LOL.
One thing about implementing the 25th is that it would have put Harris in charge. I suspect Harris at her best was worse than Biden at his worst … and others may have realized that. Nevertheless, we’ve been screwed since the Kenyan Lightbringer was installed … which is an even deeper issue.
I never thought that invoking the 25th Amendment was a realistic possibility but this interview took place over a year before the 2024 election and it is still hard for me to believe that there were people who thought that Biden was the best choice to run. The odds of him having a disaster like the June 2024 debate performance were always high.
I know that after this interview there was a lot of worry, even among Democrats, about Biden’s mental state. His aggressive 2024 State of the Union speech seemed to have calmed a lot of Dems down but it really shouldn’t have. The SOS speech was only reassuring if you were grading Biden on a curve. There has been a lot of talk about Biden having good days and bad days but for the last couple of years he just had bad days and not as bad days. His speech was always somewhat slurred and he often ran his words together. Signs of cognitive decline were always present.
We have the Hur interview, his debate performance and his numerous other public gaffes and stumbles as evidence of his decline, but the people closest to him obviously saw far worse. And yet they kept pushing him forward. Jill Biden is one nasty piece of work.
the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is useless without an honest group of people to activate it
True but would not have helped. Biden would have deactivated it. He was not in a coma and all he would need to do is declare no incapacity–he was compos mentis enough for that. Then it goes to Congress where the bar, by design, is higher than for impeachment.
Otherwise would have been used on Trump in 2017 when the media was full of stories on his “dementia”:
“It’s a reminder that no laws, no Constitution, can protect a country if its rulers and its press don’t have integrity.”
In the aggregate, elected rulers reflect those who vote for them.
“It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.”
Those who voted for Obama, Biden and Harris are the blind, being led by the blind.
One thing wrong with Hur’s assessment of a old forgetful man. he isn’t talking about your dad or grandfather, it was the President who is supposed to be available 24/7 365 to make command decisions.