It's Time for the Press to Apologize to Robert Hur

By Bonchie | RedState,com

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As quickly as the news cycle moves, it's easy to forget absurdities that occurred only a few months ago. Sometimes, it's worth looking back and Robert Hur's report on Joe Biden's mishandling of classified misinformation has turned out to be a canary in the coal mine. 

Despite releasing Biden from criminal liability for his criminal actions, the former special counsel was hammered by the press and the White House back in February. Instead of taking the win, they colluded to claim Hur was not only biased but that he had operated improperly by revealing the current president's memory issues. Biden even went so far as to lie about the situation. 

"There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died. How the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it isn't any of their damn business."

It took several weeks, but it was eventually revealed by the transcript and Hur's congressional testimony that it was Biden who brought up his son's death. In doing so, he forgot what year it occurred. Naturally, the press didn't bother to walk back any of their prior criticisms and still suggested any mention of the president's condition in the report was political and out of bounds. 

Keep in mind, they weren't even denying that what Hur wrote about Biden was true. They were upset because he dared to alert the public. 

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That's in stark contrast to the recent press turnaround in which many are now claiming they were duped by the White House about the president's condition. Even Joe Scarborough, featured in the above clip, all but called for Biden to drop out of the race following his disastrous debate performance. 

Here's the issue. They knew. This idea that the president's senility so some fresh, grand revelation is simply false. Put aside that sites like RedState have been reporting on Biden's mental and physical decline for years. Hur, a career DOJ official and registered Democrat, told them the truth, and what did they do? They viciously attacked him for it.

So no, the members of the press weren't duped. They are just dishonest hacks who thought they could get away with fooling the public as long as Biden's handlers could keep him securely in bubble wrap for long enough. The debate blew the wheels off the wagon, and now multitudes of "journalists" and their mainstream publications are scrambling to save face. Yet, just a few weeks prior, they were accusing conservatives who were exposing Biden's condition of creating "cheap fakes." 

Oh, they knew, and they have zero credibility left. If they'd like to try to regain some, there are hundreds of media figures who owe Hur an apology. 

Politico Drops Another Bomb on Biden: 'People Are Scared 'S******s of Him' in Briefings

By Mike Miller | RedState.com

AP Photo/Matt Rourke

The old axiom, "When it rains, it pours," doesn't come anywhere close to the last six days of embattled President Joe Biden and his (at least) equally embattled wife, pretend-Dr. Jill Biden.

First, if there has been a more disastrous U.S. presidential debate performance in history than Biden's Thursday night fiasco on CNN, I am unaware of it. After dazed and confused Joe's catastrophic meltdown, his inner-circle aides absurdly attempted to blame his debate prep team. 

Next up, the White House released a short, hastily-created speech on Friday in a desperate attempt to put out the debate dumpster fire. Yeah, no; it made things even worse, with Biden bizarrely looking like a Halloween jack-o-lantern.

Then things got even worse.

Vogue magazine released its July issue with a heavily air-brushed First Lady on the cover, but the accompanying quote only made things worse: "We will decide our own future." Translation: "I will decide our own future," no doubt meant the narcissist in chief.

Not "we will be having conversations with others over the coming weeks or month, and then make the best decision for our country." The woman has absolutely no shame.

Then, even worse.

CNN host Jake Tapper, who cost-hosted the Thursday debate debacle with colleague Dana Bash, tore into Team Biden and Democrat Party officials on Monday night for continuing to try to gaslight voters into believing Biden's fine. 

There is a discernable pattern of Democrat officials seemingly trying to convince you, the public, to not believe what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and with your ears on Thursday night.

Tapper then played a clip of Biden mumbling and bumbling through an incoherent response to what I believe led to Donald Trump's best of the night: "I really don't really know what he said at the end of that sentence  and I don't think he knows what he said, either."

Tapper then went back to forcefully hammering Biden and the White House. 

Democratic officials have tried to spin this in many ways. They've said President Biden just had a cold. They've said it was just one off-night .... but behind the scenes, make no mistake. Most Democratic officials witnessed the same shocking spectacle that you did. The difficulty that the presumptive Democratic nominee — the current president of the United States — had just articulated his basic thoughts during the 90 minutes of the debate.

For Jake Tapper to make those observations — the same Jake Tapper who has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler multiple times, it's not looking good on Planet Biden anymore, and I'm talking about on the left.

OK, I saved the best for last.

Politico, not exactly a conservative site, ran a disastrous article on Tuesday in which it not only dropped yet another Biden bomb, but the "left-leaning" site also said, "We've [liberal media and Democrats] all enabled the situation." 

The article was as brutal as the headline suggested.

[I]nside the White House, Biden’s growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week’s debate, with the senior team’s management of the president growing more strictly controlled as his term has gone on. During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings they’ll deliver to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.

“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said one senior administration official. “It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him.” 

The official said, “He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.”

The debate, however, was so dismal for Biden that nobody could ignore it. For as furiously as Biden’s advisers have pushed back on concerns about his age, the now 81-year-old president’s halting, soft-spoken and scattered responses to former President Donald Trump, 78, shattered the party’s magical thinking on the subject. 

That the president’s difficulties came as such a shock was largely the result of how effectively his top aides and the White House on the whole has, for three and a half years, kept him in a cocoon — far away from cameras, questions and more intense public scrutiny.

 Joe Biden might not yet be a dead man walking, yet, but somebody should probably tell "Dr." Jill to prepare for the inevitable. I'm sure clueless Joe will be fine, whatever the outcome. 

BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Trump's Immunity From Prosecution

 By Katie Pavlich | Townhall.com

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File

The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 - citing Article II of the U.S. Constitution - that former President Donald Trump in his official capacity, and more broadly the office of the United States presidency, has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Justices Elena Kagan, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. 

“It is these enduring principles that guide our decision in this case. The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive. The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party," the opinion states. 

"Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. This case is the first criminal prosecution in our Nation’s history of a former President for actions taken during his Presidency. Determining whether and under what circumstances such a prosecution may proceed requires careful assessment of the scope of Presidential power under the Constitution. The nature of that power requires that a former President have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office," the opinion continues. "At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity."

The Supreme Court did not define what an official or unofficial act is and sent that question back down to lower courts. 

Former President Trump reacted to the ruling on Truth Social, saying, "BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!"