The Left can’t keep up the charade any longer. They’ve finally given the game away.
And now CNN confessed a terrifying truth about Joe Biden’s mental state.
CNN host Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Thursday over his criticism of Special Counsel Robert Hur and his report on President Biden, pointing out that Democrats, including Schiff, had been “relentlessly harsh” on the investigation despite it being “pretty accurate.”
During the segment, Tapper highlighted Schiff’s past scrutiny of President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi.
This came after Bondi asserted that most Americans had lost trust in the Justice Department, a sentiment Schiff attributed to Republican efforts to undermine the agency.
However, Tapper pointed out that Democrats have also leveled attacks against the DOJ. “President Biden gave a pretty harsh assessment of the investigation into his son Hunter,” Tapper said.
“He basically threw the Justice Department under the bus there for those investigations. And Democrats, including you, were relentlessly harsh against Special Counsel Robert Hur for making an observation that proved pretty accurate, about how Joe Biden might appear to a jury as a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’”
Schiff defended his stance, arguing that Hur’s comments were inappropriate. “I was critical of that for good reason,” Schiff responded.
“And that is, you don’t put gratuitous personal observations like that in a prosecutorial memo. You just don’t. And it was done for a political reason. So it’s not that, you know, everyone, including special counsels, necessarily follow [Department of Justice] policy the way I believe they should. And when they don’t, I call it out. And as indeed I did, I disagreed with the president’s comments about the prosecution of his own son.”
Schiff also doubled down on his belief that Republicans had engaged in a “multi-year campaign” to paint the DOJ as part of a “deep state.”
Tapper acknowledged this point but noted that Hur had provided context for his comments, which aimed to explain his decision not to prosecute Biden.
“I think Robert Hur would say he needed to explain why he wasn’t going to prosecute President Biden for what he thought was a violation of the law,” Tapper said.
In his February report, Hur concluded that Biden had willfully retained classified materials in violation of the law but recommended against prosecution, citing Biden’s diminished mental capacity.
Hur wrote, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Schiff was particularly critical of Hur’s report during a House hearing in March, accusing him of inserting unnecessary and prejudicial commentary.
“I want to go back to your opening statement in which you said that you did not disparage the president, your report, but of course, you did disparage the president,” Schiff said at the time.
He continued:
“You disparaged him in terms you had to know would have a maximal political impact. You understood your report would be public, right? What you did write was deeply prejudicial to the interests of the president. You say it wasn’t political, and yet you must have understood. You must have understood the impact of your words. You must have understood the impact of your decision to go beyond the specifics of a particular document, to go to the very general, to your own personal prejudicial, subjective opinion of the president, one you knew would be amplified by his political opponent. When you knew that would influence a political campaign, you had to understand, and you did it anyway. You did it anyway.”
The back-and-forth underscores the ongoing partisan divide over the Justice Department’s handling of politically sensitive investigations, with both sides accusing the other of undermining its credibility.
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