Holman Jenkins for The Wall Street Journal reminds everyone that the Hur Report was released by Merrick Garland

 Who Really Released the Hur Report? Biden’s attorney general is the man who chose to let voters know about the president’s infirmity.

It’s the great unexplored theme in the Robert Hur imbroglio. The decision to release the Hur report, with its portrayal of a confused and forgetful president, wasn’t mandatory and neither did it rest with Mr. Hur, despite the congressional grilling he received this week.

The decision rested with Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Everyone with a brain knows this. Even Molly Jong-Fast knows this. It was not unexplored. She jumped on it right away, like a chicken on a June Bug.

The question is Why did Garland do it? Molly thinks it's because Garland is a Secret Republican ™, which is ridiculous.

The great unexplored thing in all this remains The Context™, to which no one is paying attention, because Boring™:  the DOJ policy which immunizes the sitting president from prosecution.

Is anyone talking about prosecuting Biden once he's out? Hello?

Hur tells you the policy right up front, then says all this bad stuff about Joe, which is really bad. But Garland chose to let you read that, despite the policy.

That's the point. It's a really big deal. Garland thinks what Biden did is really bad, and that Joe is incompetent to serve.

I still say it was a trial balloon by Garland, to see if Biden cabinet members would rise to the occasion to remove the befuddled old man. 

Jenkins doesn't really appreciate that. It has to be more than all the personal attacks Merrick Garland has had to endure from the Bidens.

Garland has been running interference for this guy from day one. He's been Joe's wingman no less than Eric Holder was Barack Obama's.

But Joe is too incompetent to even appreciate it. That's what really stung Garland.

 

 

 

This story by Tim Stanley is both lazy and stupid, which is quite an achievement

Inside the plot to replace elderly Joe Biden

The story offers no evidence whatsoever of any such plot. It's ridiculous on its face.

And it is laughably mistaken about involuntary removal of the president:

The DNC is hierarchical, disciplined and packed with Biden supporters; there’s no mechanism in place to move against the president if he doesn’t want to go.

Of course there's a mechanism if he doesn't want to go. It's just that it has nothing to do with the DNC. It's called the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

But Stanley's evidently never heard of it. He spends zero time, zip, zilch, nada, telling us anything about Biden's cabinet secretaries' possible support for removing Biden on grounds of senility. Stanley doesn't even speculate about why Attorney General Merrick Garland allowed Robert Hur to get away with showcasing the president's incompetence to stand trial in the first place.

Is Garland actually the ring leader of a cabinet plot to remove Biden? We know Biden has been unhappy with Garland for now many months. Maybe Hur's report was the trial balloon, hoping to sniff out support in the rest of the cabinet.

But we'll never know because Tim Stanley was too lazy to do the leg work as a reporter to find that out.

Molly, Molly, Molly, you watch too many movies

 

Robert Hur's Pro-Trump Hit Job Is a Trap

Molly Jong-Fast, MSNBC  

Molly thinks it's completely normal for Anthony Fauci not to recall 174 times in a deposition, and thinks Merrick Garland did all this to Joe Biden on purpose! He must be a closet Republican in league with Robert Hur! He's as bad as that Republican James Comey who sabotaged Hillary!

They don't call it PMSNBC for nothing.

Shame on Attorney General Merrick Garland for letting this partisan hit job be released. ... Garland didn’t need to appoint a Republican special counsel. Garland didn’t need to let Hur release this report filled with talking points for the right-wing media echo chamber. Hur may be a partisan, but Garland let this happen.

 

 

 

They're not going to prosecute Joe Biden for willfully retaining and disclosing classified materials, but they are going to let grandpa Applesauce Brains stay president lol

 From special counsel Robert Hur's report here:

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not
remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview
when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?"), and
forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I
still Vice President?"). He did not remember, even within several years, when his
son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan
debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said
he "had a real difference" of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact,
Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Eiden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo
to President Obama.

Our country is a giant prank played on the American people.

 Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,’ special counsel says

But the special counsel, Robert Hur, said he was declining to prosecute Biden over his handling of classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security.

This is James Comey not prosecuting Hillary all over again. 

But they will prosecute Trump in his classified documents case, upcoming. 

This double standard will be all the reason people want and need to vote for Donald Trump again.