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

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.”

    • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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      8 months ago

      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

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

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

        Seems slightly different.

          • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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            8 months ago

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

            • vlad@lemmy.sdf.org
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              8 months ago

              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.

              • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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                8 months ago

                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.