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

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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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US voting is starting to look more staged than ever

That's exactly what Republicans, especially Trump, want everyone to think.

And when Trump wins this the left will claim it was rigged. I don't want him to win either, but I'm certain he will.

I don't remember Hillary declaring the election was rigged. Can you point out when she did that?

Trump "knows he’s an illegitimate president," Clinton said. "I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did … I know he knows this wasn’t on the level."

In an October 2020 interview with The Atlantic, Clinton said, "There was a widespread understanding that [the 2016] election was not on the level. We still don’t know what happened … but you don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, ‘Whoa, something’s not right here.’"

don't believe me, though. search for the phrases and come to your own conclusion

Clinton SAYS that to detract from her own incompetence as a candidate. All of her problems, all of her fake stories, the buttery males, all of it is irrelevant compared to:

  1. Telling coal miners next to Pennsylvania that she wanted to put them out of work. "Buh, buh, what I actually said..." bullshit. She said their lifelong careers shouldn't exist, and while West Virginia was NEVER going to vote Democratic, it cost her Pennsylvania instead. -20 Electoral College Votes.

  2. Taking Michigan for granted. The prime autoworker state should have been a slam dunk. Take a tour, remind everyone how the Republicans wanted to let them twist in the wind. She skipped the state and it cost her. -16 Electoral College Votes.

  3. Same thing in Wisconsin, except Wisconsin showed it could and would vote Republican in repeated state-wide elections. She skipped it, they skipped her. -10 electoral college votes.

Had she not been an idiot, and swung just these three states... +46 EC votes... 273-258 - Clinton wins.

thanks for actually replying and using quotes

here lately people seem to forget facts and play football politics hardcore

people instantly confused me with being in the republican camp when in fact democrat and republican politics keep me from being allowed to vote

Stop following me around. It's harassment. Flagged. Goodbye.

i'm not following you. i'm reading the feed and responding. i didn't even notice your username until after i'd corrected you. but i would be happy to help you find the block button. it's on my profile page, in the upper right.

Also, there are like 10 people on this platform. We're going to keep bumping into each other.

Sure, here you go:

https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-election-160716779.html

“We still don’t know what really happened.” vs "the election was rigged and I am the rightful president!"

Seems slightly different.

Where in that article does she claim it was rigged?

I linked it.

I asked where in the article she says it. I quickly read the article but didn't see it.

Throughout the whole article she keeps repeating how she doesn't feel that elections are legitimate. I'm not even arguing that she's right or wrong. All I'm saying is that people blame the other side for doing things that they themselves have done before, and when it's their turn they will do it again.

Throughout the whole article she keeps repeating how she doesn’t feel that elections are legitimate.

So, at no point did she say it was rigged. Gotcha.

I knew this because she never actually said so. Because she is not a lying sack of shit like trump. If you go look at her actual comments, rather than these cherry picked comments by the national review desperately trying to paint her as equivalent to trump in order to justify supporting the democracy hater, you'll see she points to valid, actual concerns about things like voter suppression. Not just suspicion based on things they don't understand and continuing the claim fraud even when what cause the suspicion was explained.

They're not even remotely the same, regardless of how much one tries to spin it.

i think it's interesting that the objection to your very factual claim is that one specific person didn't phrase it that way: i remember keith olberman and rachel maddow. how could we forget?!

sounds like the kind of thinking the Democrats want you saying

that is the crux both parties using the same lines both full of themselves

football politics with no meat on either Canidate's resume

where are any candidates that run based on their past accomplishments that helped society in some way or just something other than "we are not that other party and it is the other party's fault we are underwhelming in every way possible"

Either elections are rigged or they aren't.

The only people saying elections are rigged are Republicans.

Therefore that is exactly what Republicans and Trump want people to think.

But hey, you want to support Trump's claim that the election was a fraud, go for it. Not a single judge, including the ones he appointed, agreed with that claim.

I have a little fan theory that the Republicans rigged the election to be in their favor and when Biden still won despite that...Like that's why all the lawsuits and digging their heels in, because how could they lose otherwise if the other side didn't cheat too? Tmp couldn't possibly be that unpopular! Hahaha it makes me giggle to think about. Please no one take this seriously

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