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Biden's legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory (apnews.com)

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President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory.

“This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer said on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday. “It’s a shabby work product.”

The special counsel was investigating whether the president mishandled classified documents during his previous positions as vice president and senator, and found this week that no criminal charges were warranted.

But in building his argument for why no charges were necessary, Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, detailed in part that Biden’s defense of any potential charges could possibly be that: “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.”

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[+] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -7 points 9 months ago

You know....the very right biased Supreme Court could practically guarantee a Republican 2025 president by keeping trump off the ballot for being an insurrectionist.

Biden would have no chance against almost anyone else that became an option. Instead of two old people barely keeping their shit together that a sizeable portion of Democrats or Republicans are against, trying to pit Biden against someone younger who was even slightly less of a nut job than Trump would be really easy.

The Democrat's would see trump getting booted as a major victory, but what it will really end up doing is driving masses of Republicans to go vote straight ticket and flushing our country down the shitter.

The Supreme Court will probably wait until there isn't a lot of time left before ruling. After the ruling the DNC will know that Biden won't have a chance against Nikki Haley. She'd get all the pissed of MAGA voters, a lot of female voters, the ones who just know Biden is too old, and the other red voters to show up. The left side won't be motivated to go vote for Biden, and with a late ruling the DNC won't have the time to get Biden to announce he's not going to run a 2nd term and get anyone else to run other than VP Harris, but it seems a lot of people don't like Harris and she just wouldn't stand a chance against the right being angry and motivated over Trump getting booted.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

That's just not true. A significant portion of the republican party will only turn out for Trump.

[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe they're full of shit

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

I think that's true right now, but the trump crowd is dumb and easily angered. You honestly don't think they'd be angry enough to go vote against Biden if their lord Trump got thrown in prison and Nikki eludes to pardoning Trump as a priority when she gets into office after the conniving democrats locked him up and/or stopped him from running? Do you not think Trump will back another candidate and tell his Lil fan club to go vote for them if Trump thinks it will keep him out of prison?

I work around some of these people. I can assure you that they will go vote.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

You honestly don’t think they’d be angry enough to go vote against Biden

No, I don't. They would whing that the system is rigged, just like they did in the last election, and not bother voting at all.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

*alludes

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