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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Special counsel Robert Hur is in final talks to publicly testify before Congress in early March about his report on President Biden's handling of classified documents, a GOP aide tells Axios.

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... Why it matters: House Republicans are salivating about the chance to ask Hur about Biden's fitness for office.

- - - Biden, his White House and his personal lawyer have been bashing Hur over his report, which cleared Biden of criminal wrongdoing but painted the president, 81, as having "diminished faculties" and a "poor memory."

Zoom in: Hur already is thinking about his testimony and has reached out to former Justice Department colleagues to potentially help him prepare, a person familiar with the matter told Axios.

- - - Hur, a former U.S. attorney who was a Trump appointee, has been in discussions with Sarah Isgur " the head of public affairs and a senior counselor to Trump's deputy attorney general during the Mueller investigation " to help him navigate a congressional hearing. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 06:17 PM | Reply

Curious that the House Republicans want this testimony to be public, but refuse to allow Mr Hunter Biden to testify publicly.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 06:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Tell me again how it's the Dems who weaponize government to influence elections...

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-15 09:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 4

@#3 ... Tell me again how it's the Dems who weaponize government to influence elections......

OK, I will.

...

...

...

I got nothing.

{shrug}

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 09:32 PM | Reply

Hur's auditioning for Attorney General of the United States under tRumptyDump.
What a political hack. Transparent in his ambition and lack of any morality. Utter garbage.

#5 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 09:43 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Hur's auditioning for Attorney General of the United States ...

To be honest, I have not looked at his actions in that aspect until you mentioned it.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 09:47 PM | Reply

Speculation on my part, but I bet if you look at his words and actions in that light it will make more sense.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 09:48 PM | Reply

@#7 ... Speculation on my part ...

Yeah, anything regarding the future and fmr Pres trump is speculation. Mainly because I remain to be convinced that he thinks more than an hour or two into the future. On the other hand, maybe he is some sort of evil genius who leads us to believe that.

Who knows.

But to your point, now that I read what SC Hur has said....

He has kissed the ring.

Hmmmmm ...


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 10:00 PM | Reply

I view Trump as quite smart WRT his own ambition and how to use demagoguery to manipulate people. He has an instinctive genius about it. He's studied the speeches of Hitler. He's keyed in. Anyone thinking Trump is stupid because of his sheer idiocy in his rants, posts, spewing hate is missing it.

#9 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 10:32 PM | Reply

"I view Trump as quite smart WRT his own ambition and how to use demagoguery to manipulate people. "

He's an idiot-- but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to manipulate vast swathes of Americans.

#10 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-02-15 10:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

74% of Republicans think that Trump as a dictator would be good for America,
What do you think?

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 10:43 PM | Reply

"What do you think?"

I think that proves my point. It also proves how much propaganda has ruined the brains of the right and the left in America.
Of course, the left could stop hastening towards Armageddon and nominate Jon Stewart and save the world, but that isn't going to happen now, is it?

#12 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-02-15 10:51 PM | Reply

There's the deep thinking we've been missing!

#13 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 10:57 PM | Reply

Jon's back on Mondays at least.

#14 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-15 11:00 PM | Reply

@#12 ... It also proves how much propaganda has ruined the brains of the right and the left in America. ...

If I agree with that comment (I don't, btw), my first question would be...

If propaganda has ruined the brains of the right and left in America, which of the two now have worse goals as a result of those ruined brains?

I mean, was the CBS series BrainDead that far off?

BrainDead
en.wikipedia.org

... BrainDead is an American political satire science fiction[1][2][3] comedy-drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King.[4] The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy, a documentary film-maker who takes a job working for her brother Luke (Danny Pino), a U.S. Senator, when the funding for her latest film falls through.

Assigned as his new constituency caseworker, she discovers that Washington, D.C. has been invaded by extraterrestrial insects which are eating the brains and taking control of people, including members of Congress and their staffers.

Much of the internal comedy of the series was that, in the altered reality of Washington, D.C. politics, only a few people noticed. ...


A parody, that now seems to be so close, o so close, to reality.



#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 11:04 PM | Reply

@#14 ... Jon's back on Mondays at least. ...

First show was quite good.

Rest of the week, so far, blah.

So, now I'm looking forward to Mondays.

I've not yet adjusted my TiVo to record that preference, it is still recording all the weekdays. But if things don't change, it will go to Mondays only.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 11:08 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Hur's auditioning for Attorney General of the United States under tRumptyDump.
What a political hack. Transparent in his ambition and lack of any morality. Utter garbage. ...

Maybe we can now return to this discussion here.

...

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 11:25 PM | Reply

El Gourdo is the stinking man's Gassy Rodent.

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-17 12:29 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Not sure how this works out for the GOP - especially in public.

In the report, it clearly points out the differences between the Biden case and the Trump case. That's a minus for Trump. The Dems aren't going to let that slide by and will make Hur go on record repeatedly.

Sure they'll get some digs at Biden's memory and such but cats already out of the bag there - so I don't see much gain.

#19 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-17 07:12 PM | Reply

74% of Republicans think that Trump as a dictator would be good for America,

I kinda feel these people wouldn't care if Trump was President until he died.

They live in their bubble and just want closed borders, access to their guns, and a leader who talks smack.

#20 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-17 07:16 PM | Reply

Yes that panel is TOTALLY concerned about the mental competency of the president. Yup. Their credibility on this issue is unblemished.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-18 02:21 AM | Reply

#19

The minority party has no ability to force anyone to go on record.

#22 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-02-18 07:56 AM | Reply

22 posts.

22 good little parroting lemmings giving us the predicted and received attack on this guy who .....apparently
some of you were busy translating Biden's gibberish into English... missed the fact that he said your brain dead parasite
wouldn't be charged.

this thread was so filled with righteous indignation and downright religious in fervor.

Haven't heard a "call and response" moment like this since miss piggy's uglier / fatter sister....Hillary....yelled in black

voice......."I COMES TOO FAR AND IS TOO TIRED."

and the DR KLAN shouted HALLELUJAH SISTER.

#23 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-02-18 09:28 AM | Reply

" Tell me again how it's the Dems who weaponize government to influence elections...

#3 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2024-02-15 09:16 PM | FLAG: "

How many years was Biden negligent in storing and keeo8mg classified documents he wasn't supposed to even possess?

Trump farts and Dems sic Weissman on him. You all made this bed. Now you get to lie in it.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-18 11:44 AM | Reply

JeffJ rushes to Trump's defense YET AGAIN!

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-18 11:46 AM | Reply

#25. Thread isn't about Trump.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-18 11:57 AM | Reply

Hmmm, Trump owes half a billion dollars and some of the classified documents he took are still missing. Seems relevant and should be raised when Hur testifies.

#27 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-18 12:17 PM | Reply

" Seems relevant and should be raised when Hur testifies.

#27 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY AT 2024-02-18 12:17 PM | FLAG: "

Hur wasn't investigating Trump. Please explain the relevance.

#28 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-18 12:21 PM | Reply

It's relevant because the claim is that possessing classified docs is a national security risks, especially when the person having those documents is deeply in debt. If it was a risk when Biden had them, it is even more a risk that a desperate Trump has them now.

#29 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-18 12:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

As an expert in conducting a classified docs investigation, his opinion on Trump having them is relevant, especially since he does refer to Trump in his report.

#30 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-18 12:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#25. Thread isn't about Trump.

#26 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Right. So why did you bring him up?

You don't think trumpy is behind it all? Of course he is. Revenge and retribution baby! I'll bet he called them and told them to drag Hur in and get him to talk trash about Biden.

I bet it was his idea to drag this out and squeeze every drop of insulting and demeaning statements as they can get out if Hur. They really like his style!

Sounds very much like a Trumpian thing to do. After declaring that Biden won't be charged they want to try and continue to try and drag this out and trash the President as long as they can. Because Hur said some pretty mean things about Biden. They like that kind of talk! They cannot prosecute Biden because he is an innocent old man but they sure can harass him.

The race is too close. Gotta bring those Biden poll numbers down!

Same strategy they had with Hillary. Use millions of dollars of taxpayers money to trash their opponents. And they whine about the democrats weaponizing the government all while they are busy little bees weaponizing the government against their opponents.

#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-18 12:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

25. Thread isn't about Trump.

#26 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

of course it is Bell....every thread is about trump.
5 of the first 11 posts refer to him....post before and after this one from you refer to him followed by 1 perhaps 2 more.

If Ivan Pavlov were alive today he wouldn't need dogs and bells.

--he could just run into a room full of leftist-dogma KLAN gestapo goons and yell TRUMP and then sit back and

watch them lick the drool off of each other's chins......and hope it was just drool.

#32 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-02-18 01:32 PM | Reply

Thread isn't about Trump.
#26 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

"Don't derail the thread, that's my job!!"
-BellRinger

What a sad excuse for a human being you are.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-18 01:34 PM | Reply

Curious that the House Republicans want this testimony to be public, but refuse to allow Mr Hunter Biden to testify publicly.
#2 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Hunter's Laptop called their bluff.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-18 01:35 PM | Reply

What ever happened to Hunter's email?

The email was going to sink "the Biden crime family".

The laptop became the subject after it was absolutely clear - to everyone but trumpers - that the email didn't exist.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-18 01:41 PM | Reply

"-he could just run into a room full of leftist-dogma KLAN gestapo goons and yell TRUMP and then sit back and"

We will never be rid of trump now. He is part of American ( and even world) history now. Forever. Sadly and embarrassingly.

But I bet if Trumpy would just shut the tell up and go away we would (gladly) forget about him as fast as we could. (Tho unfortunately we will probably still be dealing with the aftermath of his policy decisions and his cultish maga maroons like you for decades)


#36 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-18 02:07 PM | Reply

#23 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Jesus read that glimpse into this posters mind. The more someone loves trump the more unhinged they are. America has a mental health issue.

#37 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-18 04:43 PM | Reply

of course it is Bell....every thread is about trump.
#32 | Posted by shrimptacodan

That's the fault of trump and his cult who remain loyal to him even after his failed coup.

Don't whine at us when YOURE the ones who won't let him go. You could have ended this ---- years ago. Instead the cult wanted to keep the insanity going.

#38 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-18 04:45 PM | Reply

Won't this be about Trump, though?

The GOP is wants to know why Biden isn't being indicted but Trump is, meaning it's not a fair system.

Hur will be forced to say why that is. Again, this will be huge negative from Trump. And bad strategy for the GOP.

#39 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-18 05:44 PM | Reply

Trump farts and Dems sic Weissman on him. You all made this bed. Now you get to lie in it.

What bed? LOL

Trump has been indicted and Biden has been cleared. And Hur will be forced to square that with his testimony.

Is that payback GOP style? LOL

#40 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-18 05:47 PM | Reply

The minority party has no ability to force anyone to go on record.

They'll get to ask questions, yes?

#41 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-18 05:49 PM | Reply

Now you get to lie in it.

And I think that's a huge difference betweent the two parties. The Dems do something because they believe in it, and can actually back it up. See Trump impeachments as an example. Although they failed to convict (so political) - now law enforcement has rightfully stepped in.

The GOP tries to proimse tik for tat but it never works - because they don't have anything. See their latest impeachments. They're embarassing. See how they generally fumble basic governing.

#42 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-18 05:56 PM | Reply

He's an idiot-- but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to manipulate vast swathes of Americans.

#10 | POSTED BY PUMPKINHEAD

He is an entertainer and a performer.

Are you not yet entertained?

I know I am. I have had my fill of it thank you very much.

#43 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-19 11:39 AM | Reply

What ever happened to Hunter's email?

The whistleblower got arrested for fraud.

#44 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-02-19 11:47 AM | Reply

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