During an appearance on Fox News's “America Reports,” Turley gave a perfect example.

Well, I thought the Republicans did a particularly good job today. Often the Democrats are way ahead in framing of hearings, but at points the Democrats seemed almost a border on the delusional.

When you had Hur say ‘I did not exonerate the president’ and then Democrats would say ‘OK, so you exonerated the president’ and he would say ‘No, I didn’t’ and they would say ‘Thank you for that, with that exoneration.’

So for a lot of people watching, they probably kept on having to sort of reverse and see if they missed something here. //

Turley continued:

The fact is that Hur tried over and over again to distinguish between his findings, which is that he was not confident he could convict if he did bring any charges, and the statement of Democrats that the president was cleared. //

I'm not a prosecutor but it seems to me after listening to multiple legal opinions — including Turley, several times — on this case that it should have been left to a jury to determine whether or not Biden is sufficiently competent to be held accountable.

What am I missing? Other than the reality of the two-tier justice system, I mean. //

anon-cdoc
10 hours ago edited
I am of mixed minds as to whether Hur is going with the incompetency excuse because he doesn't think he can get a conviction in a DC or Delaware jury pool. HOWEVER, Joe Biden broke the law and basically committed espionage. There are people in prison for the same thing, but one or two instances, not 40 freaking years worth. Joe Biden should still be charged as soon as he is no longer a sitting president and at least make the effort. Make him spend some of those millions on defending himself, just like Trump! //

Highlar75
4 hours ago
One of the things that has always struck me in Hur's report, and again during the hearing, was what it didn't say/emphasize: these were crimes committed not NOW...but decades ago when Biden WAS fully functioning and aware of what he did. To me, THAT is the way a prosecutor would handle this case. Hur is trying to place it all NOW, when that's not the case at all. Or am I missing something in Hur's defense of his report? //

Sojourner Hound Dog
2 hours ago
Respectfully disagree. While I would certainly like Biden to be tried/impeached/etc. for what is a lengthy spell of purloining items that he had no right to be in possession of, the reality - for me - is that Hur far exceeded what anyone thought he would be able to do.

His "unsatisfying" conclusion (because we DO want to see actual justice done to the crook) was brilliant: the pro-Biden DoJ couldn't squash the report b/c of the way Hur framed his conclusions. Similarly, it leaves the door open down the road for someone to say, "The heck with that, let's see if a jury will convict him" b/c the report did NOT exonerate Biden. Quite the contrary, it laid out that Biden committed crimes.

FWIW

In a fiery and revealing exchange during Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled former special counsel Robert Hur about President Joe Biden’s motivation for keeping classified documents after his term as vice president had concluded.

At the heart of the matter was an $8 million book deal Biden had been offered at the time. Jordan’s questioning centered on why the president would have taken classified documents in violation of the law after leaving the White House.

Hur, who had been tasked with investigating Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, indicated that his final report on the matter did not directly address the president’s motivations. However, Jordan debunked this statement.

"Page 231, you said this: 'President Biden had strong motivations'—that's a key word. We're getting a motive now: 'President Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his notebook.' Why did he have strong motivations? 'Because he decided months before leaving office to write a book.'" //

Townhall.com @townhallcom
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Chairman Jordan:

"Joe Biden knew the rules, you know he knew the rules, and Joe Biden told us he knew the rules. So Mr. Hur, why did he break them?"

11:20 AM · Mar 12, 2024

After President Joe Biden said Saturday that Israel invading the Gazan city of Rafah, where many refugees from northern Gaza have relocated, would be a "red line" regarding America's support, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied that Israel will indeed invade Rafah because his own red line is "that October 7th doesn't happen again, never happens again." //

A few minutes later Netanyahu was specifically asked about Biden's "red line" comments, and replied:

My red line is very simple. We're not going to leave Hamas with the capability of pursuing, of perpetrating another Hamas massacre as they did on October 7th. And the only way we can do that is, we cannot leave -- we cannot leave the Hamas terrorist battalions intact. It means that, in fact, we lose the war.

Philip Klein @philipaklein
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New poll finds that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 65% of Israelis overall support operation in Rafah, which Biden says is a “red line.” His efforts to portray the Gaza operation as Netanyahu policy will only help Bibi domestically. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53305

The Hill @thehill
President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping” https://trib.al/67YEzDN
12:02 PM · Mar 10, 2024

Biden is being a duplicitous snake and throwing Israel under the bus, trying to put pressure on Bibi to play both to our left and maybe to theirs. But Joe being Joe, he's wrong again, and he may be actually strengthening Netanyahu in the process.

Great job, Joe!

SLOTown Hoosier
8 hours ago
"can't have 30,000 more Palestinians dead,"- but apparently the number of dead Americans, at the hands of illegal aliens is of no concern //

edhuff SLOTown Hoosier
7 hours ago
Nobody in the Middle East or Ukraine would have had to die if Biden and his team had been even marginally competent in foreign affairs (or anything for that matter). //

houdini1984
8 hours ago

An Israeli expert who frequently consults for US officials is quoted by New York Magazine as saying, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.”

I'm old enough to remember when Trump was impeached for asking Ukraine's leaders to look into Biden's corruption in that country. And here we have a President whose administration is actively looking at options to undermine the government of one of our most important allies.

Add that to Biden's unbroken string of failed foreign policy positions. 50 years of being wrong on every major foreign policy issues. You almost have to admire his consistency. //

Mama Bear
4 hours ago
American Jews have had best friends in 3 US presidents:

1) George Washington.

He wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island, saying, among other things:

“May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”

Basically, he welcomed the Jewish people to this great country.

2) Thomas Jefferson.

His was one of the few voices in the early republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement of religious toleration.

After the Revolution he wrote a Jewish physician to say:

“Religious freedom is the most effectual anodyne against religious dissension.” Jefferson said he was delighted to see American Jews assuming full social rights and hoped “they will be seen taking their seats on the benches of science as preparatory to their doing the same at the board of government.”

3) Donald Trump.

In his first month in office Trump set about to accomplish the Abraham Accords — specifically taking the Palestinian lynchpin out of the equation and making US aid and support to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE conditional upon relations with Israel.

In 2019 President Trump signed an executive order that broadened Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to apply to discrimination based on anti-Semitism.

None of the networks carried it. Most Jews don’t even know about it.

In 2017, during his first year in office, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, helping fulfill a 2000 year old dream for world Jewry.

Trump is also the first and only US president to have Jewish children and grandchildren, and the first to have a rabbi do the benediction at his inauguration.

The list of what Trump has done for the Jewish people goes on and on. You would think American Jewry, including the so-called political leaders like Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, and their ilk would recognize this and be grateful.

It’s time for American Jews to wake up and see reality. The Dems no longer are our friends. But Donald Trump has been a very loyal one.

Retlag Mama Bear
3 hours ago
I agree with your assessment, but I think you would also have to include Harry Truman. He recognized Israel within minutes of their announcement of statehood. Without his support, Israel might never have survived 1948/49. //

Hood of Judgement @BozOzler
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The lack of self awareness and optics is just breathtaking here

lauren kapp @laurenavakapp
responding rapidly from Biden HQ

9:51 AM · Mar 8, 2024
https://x.com/BozOzler/status/1766114591371903284?s=20
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The first point so many made was how the folks on the right looked just like everyone imagined the Biden HQs rapid response team would look -- like a bunch of NYU theater kids, as one person on X put it.

That explains so much about why we are in the mess we are now. The picture appears to be them checking out the State of the Union and/or its aftermath. What was hilarious was while the talking points on the left are that Biden hit a "home run," none of them look happy at all with what is going on. Kapp also clearly has no idea what that picture looks like. It looks like the picture of the Hillary people who cried in 2016, some on X observed. This is the adults back in charge?

Then the other hilarious thing that people pointed out to the Biden person is that the picture on the right did not show "Biden HQs"; it was the famous picture of Osama bin Laden being taken out in a raid, a raid ordered by Barack Obama—who you can see in the picture— and it was a raid that Biden opposed. So much for "rapid response."

Do his people not even know that? Why would they post that picture, of all pictures, with that caption? They're either clueless or believe everyone else is.

an illegal immigrant who was attempting to cross the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, inadvertently cut a tailor-made ad for the GOP on the topic, standing behind a barbed wire fence while wearing a Biden-Harris 2020 t-shirt.

When he was reminded by someone off-camera that Biden and Harris were the President and Vice President, the man wearing the t-shirt said he was wearing it in hopes that they would let him in:

If Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have any interest in stopping Biden’s weaponization of the federal government to boost Democrats’ get-out-the-vote machine, they must be willing to halt all federal funding until the aforementioned provisions are included in any spending bill that comes across their desks. Otherwise, Biden’s secret election-rigging scheme will derail the GOP’s electoral prospects for years to come.

Ben Shapiro
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Absolutely pathetic. Hamas is currently holding six American citizens hostage and Biden is saying he wants to pressure Israel. And that Israel should give the Hamas/PA/Islamic Jihad government a state.
Sawyer Hackett
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President Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."

“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”
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A few years ago, the media couldn't stop harping on about Joe Biden being "the great unifier," then last night he stood up in front of America and told everyone to pick a side. //

Lioness56
an hour ago
Joe Biden kept coughing last night because his pants were SO on fire. //

AngelicProphet
an hour ago edited
'They" want an excuse to declare martial law, cancel the elections and implement 'their own' government. biden has THREATENED the citizens of the USA more than once now... Even going so far as suggesting "they" have F16's. I have no doubt biden would love to use our military against those 'who are not with' "with THEM", but oppose them. All one need do is look at the overreach with the J6 folks! "They" like poking the bear, stirring the so called sh*tpot. But we know what "they" are after and we simply will not give it to them.

The State of the Union address was not for the Union. Sure, it's always a political speech, but it's usually focused on bringing the country together behind the president. But last not, that speech wasn't for you and me, people who are conservative or even slightly right of center. It wasn't for independents, either. Last night's speech was to every Democrat in the room, every member of the media watching, and every Democrat at home. He took an hour to say what really could have distilled to this:

"I'm running. Me. Not Michelle. Not Gavin. Me. And you're all gonna back me, starting right now."

The old man yelled at his own party. He refused to name Trump, but he referenced him. He never once spoke about working with Republicans, only demanding they join him and abandon "the former president," as he referred to him. But the message last night was Joe Biden stomping out any talk of insurgency within his own party.

Elon Musk

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This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants.

It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.
12:26 AM · Mar 5, 2024 //

X owner Elon Musk pointed out an issue that most people don't even know about - that not only is Biden leaving the door open for illegal aliens to come in, Biden was also flying people into this country from other countries so they don't even have to cross the border themselves. According to the report, Biden flew in 320,000 of them last year. //

Included in details of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit first reported by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden's CBP approved the latest secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.

The program was part of Biden's expansion of the CBP One app, which kicked off at the start of last year.

Migrants were able, under Biden's expansion, to apply for asylum using the app from their home countries.

But the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) notes that the transportation of these migrants directly to the U.S. is one of the lesser known uses of the app.

Aliens who cannot legally enter the U.S. use CBP One to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports.

Under this parole release, migrants are able to remain in the U.S. for two years without obtaining legal status and meanwhile are eligible for work authorization.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The massive flood of illegal immigration is due to 94 executive actions by the Biden administration.

Until those executive actions are revoked, claims by Biden that he wants to address illegal immigration are a bold-faced lie.

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat
Reporter: “Why are you waiting to take executive action on the border?”

Biden: “Because we need more forces on the border, I don’t have the authority to do that.”

Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to decimate border security — and has all the authority he…
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Moreover, if you wanted more forces to help out, you wouldn't be suing Texas to try to stop them from defending the border. You would be thanking them and welcoming their help.

WhatsApp messages, emails, bank records, and testimonies show James and Joe were key players in the Bidens’ influence-peddling scheme.

Oh, what might have been. Our country could have been spared a lot of pain over the last few years if only Joe Biden had followed his instinct and retreated to Delaware in 2009 to tend to his garden.

You see, according to the Hur classified docs report, he came this close to renouncing his then-position as vice president in the Obama administration. If he had, he would have likely faded into obscurity and we’d remember him now as a mediocre senator and goofy VP.

How deep did the Biden administration's censorship regime go, which infamously targeted Twitter and Facebook? According to newly subpoenaed emails by the House Judiciary Committee, it even reached the world's largest retailer, Amazon. //

Rep. Jim Jordan released some of the details on Monday, which included former Biden official Andy Slavitt pressuring Amazon to censor books that questioned the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. //

That last sentence is chilling. As if there's nothing wrong with what was occurring, an Amazon worker asks, "Is the Admin asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (or both)?" //

Rep. Jim Jordan
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How did the Biden White House conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore?

The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as “vaccine,” and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search results appeared:
11:44 PM · Feb 5, 2024 //

Rep. Jim Jordan
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After the White House spent a week berating Amazon, what did the online bookstore do?

Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective.
11:44 PM · Feb 5, 2024

Quite honestly, Lankford's position is utterly insane. This bill leaves the border no different than it is today, changes laws to make them more lenient, funds the chaos, and strips border states of the ability to effectively challenge this law in court. //

This bill is a solution looking for a problem.

The real problem, the asylum questions not being asked, remains.

It's sad that our lawmakers are so focused on making laws and not in solving problems. //

Random US Citizen
5 hours ago
We've reached an interesting point in the decline of the republic. The point where people are both willing and unashamed to openly state bald-faced lies that are diametric opposition to objective reality... and almost no one will say anything. It's both fascinating and alarming to watch as politicians make claims that are clearly the opposite of the plain text of the bill.

They've always lied, of course. They might shade the truth. They might omit important but controversial points when talking about a bill. They might even make hyperbolic pronouncements ("Republicans want to take away Social Security"). But we seem to have arrived at a time when they're quite willing to insist, against all the evidence of our senses, that "we've always been at war with East Asia."

Orwell is my least favorite prophet.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

As bad as everything I've just noted is, none of it even matters. Why? Because this bill gives President Joe Biden sole authority to override all the emergency provisions that supposedly kick in after 5,000 illegal entries. In other words, as laughably high as that threshold is, it's not even enforceable. //

Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT
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6/ But...important checks on that power. It can only be used for a limited number of days per year. It sunsets in 3 years. Emergency cases that show up in between the ports still need to be accepted. The ports must process a minimum of 1400 claims a day.
6:54 PM · Feb 4, 2024

In short, Ukraine gets a bunch of cash, some insanely weak border enforcement provisions are put in place that expire after three years, and Biden gets the authority to override them immediately anyway. Does that sound like something Republicans should be signing onto, especially in an election year? This nonsense is DOA, and the House should rip it apart and shove it back in the face of the Senate.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
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NEW: The large majority of illegal crossings at the southern border are now happening in AZ & CA, as a shift away from TX continues.

Per CBP sources, 23,576 of them – 71.8% – were in Arizona and California. Notably, the numbers in Texas' Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, have fallen off a cliff. In December, the sector saw days of 3,000-4,000 illegal crossings per day. Over the last week, it has averaged around just 200.

12:34 PM · Feb 1, 2024 //

Barry Cunningham @barrycunningham
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Illegals got the message.

Texas encounters dropped from 4,000 per day down to 200!

Now they are headed to Arizona and California.
Sooo...a show of force DOES work! Whaddayaknow!
6:14 PM · Feb 1, 2024 //

NightTwister
a day ago
"So we don't know what Biden may have promised Mexico" -- Probably this: "We'll have more flexibility after the election in November."

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Biden’s strategy is very simple:

1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible.

2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state.

That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration. Simple, yet effective.
8:26 PM · Feb 2, 2024b//

In response to Biden's January 26 press release in which he claimed he needed congressional authority and more money to "shut down" the border, Musk fired back:

No laws need to be passed. All that is needed is an executive order to require proof before granting an asylum hearing. That is how it used to be. ///

Enforce the law as it is written.

Jennifer Griffin
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And all of those IRGC commanders have already left Syria and gone into hiding leaving those bases. The Pentagon usually does not telegraph so much if it wants the element of surprise.
Shashank Joshi
@shashj
"U.S. officials have confirmed to CBS News that plans have been approved for a series of strikes over a number of days against targets — including Iranian personnel and facilities — inside Iraq and Syria." https://cbsnews.com/news/us-strikes-iran-personnel-facilities-in-iraq-syria-approved-jordan-drone-attack/
10:15 AM · Feb 1, 2024 //

Thanks, Joe Biden, foreign policy genius!

Griffin told Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that some of the IRGC commanders were now back in Tehran. She asked a blunt question, "Has there been too much telegraphing or is the point not to kill any Iranian commanders?" //

In terms of answering the telegraphing question, he just said he wouldn't "speculate." Thanks, another non-answer from Austin.