Biden Kaput!
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I doubt you'll accept any answer except a spittle-flecked "DESTROY America!"
All of 'em. In between bouts of denigrating all that's right and holy, that is.
Yeah, sound economic principles are a bad thing. Especially for freeloaders.
What "sound economic principles" would those be?
You remind me of a cartoon I saw of some guy standing on the rubble of a collapsed civilization yelling "But the THEORY is STILL SOUND!"
Most "sound theory" adds up to "What worked yesterday will always work, and any variation is 'unsound.'"
Reporter calls Biden’s ‘obvious cognitive decline’ most ‘underreported’ story of 2024
Author of the article
enette Wilford
Published Dec 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
A veteran CBS News reporter called out the media for not properly covering U.S. President Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline” until his disastrous debate against Donald Trump made it irrefutable.
Jan Crawford, the network’s chief legal correspondent, appeared Sunday on Face the Nation where she was asked what she thought was the most underreported story of the year.
“Under-covered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate,” she said on the morning show.
Crawford added that thorough reporting on the outgoing president’s health could have altered the election results.
“And yet he insisted that he could still run for president,” she noted.
“We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats.”
She continued: “It could have changed the scope of the entire election.”
Crawford also highlighted a recent report by The Wall Street Journal that detailed how White House aides covered up Biden’s mental decline over the past four years, and worked to limit the 82-year-old’s interactions with others.
Biden’s on-camera struggles and stumbles were reported on but the White House issued denials, no comments or non-answers when questioned about his mental acuity.
But there was nothing Biden’s inner circle could do following the June 27 debate on live TV that saw him struggling terribly.
Less than a month later, he dropped out of the presidential race and offered his “full support and endorsement” of Vice President Kamala Harris.
With less than four months to the election, Harris ultimately lost to Trump, who returns to the White House on Jan. 20.
Robert Costa, CBS News’ chief election and campaign correspondent and fellow Face the Nation guest, insisted that Biden previously said he was sick during the debate “and he’s always been fine and he leaves fine.”
Costa added: “That is his position, the position of many of his top aides as well, even though there is that reporting.”
However, Crawford wasn’t buying it.
“Yet still, incredibly, we read in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump,” she said.
“And I think that is either delusional or they’re gaslighting the American people.”
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Author of the article
enette WilfordPublished Dec 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
A veteran CBS News reporter called out the media for not properly covering U.S. President Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline” until his disastrous debate against Donald Trump made it irrefutable.
Jan Crawford, the network’s chief legal correspondent, appeared Sunday on Face the Nation where she was asked what she thought was the most underreported story of the year.
“Under-covered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate,” she said on the morning show.
Crawford added that thorough reporting on the outgoing president’s health could have altered the election results.
“And yet he insisted that he could still run for president,” she noted.
“We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats.”
She continued: “It could have changed the scope of the entire election.”
Crawford also highlighted a recent report by The Wall Street Journal that detailed how White House aides covered up Biden’s mental decline over the past four years, and worked to limit the 82-year-old’s interactions with others.
Biden’s on-camera struggles and stumbles were reported on but the White House issued denials, no comments or non-answers when questioned about his mental acuity.
But there was nothing Biden’s inner circle could do following the June 27 debate on live TV that saw him struggling terribly.
Less than a month later, he dropped out of the presidential race and offered his “full support and endorsement” of Vice President Kamala Harris.
With less than four months to the election, Harris ultimately lost to Trump, who returns to the White House on Jan. 20.
Robert Costa, CBS News’ chief election and campaign correspondent and fellow Face the Nation guest, insisted that Biden previously said he was sick during the debate “and he’s always been fine and he leaves fine.”
Costa added: “That is his position, the position of many of his top aides as well, even though there is that reporting.”
However, Crawford wasn’t buying it.
“Yet still, incredibly, we read in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump,” she said.
“And I think that is either delusional or they’re gaslighting the American people.”
Reporter calls Biden’s ‘obvious cognitive decline’ most ‘underreported’ story of 2024
A veteran CBS News reporter called out the media for not properly covering U.S. President Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline.”
Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Darlene Superville
Published Jan 08, 2025 • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.
The outgoing Democratic president also told USA Today in the interview published Wednesday that he tried during his Oval Office meeting with President-elect Donald Trump to discourage the Republican from going after his political opponents, as he has said he would. And Biden said he had not decided whether to issue sweeping pardons to preemptively protect those individuals from any possible retribution by Trump or the incoming administration.
“I don’t know,” Biden responded when USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page asked if he would’ve had the vigor to serve another four years in office. Biden and Page sat down at the White House on Sunday for the president’s rare interview with a print publication.
Biden, 82, talks about how he didn’t intend to run for president in 2020, but says that when Trump sought reelection last year, “I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old.”
“But I don’t know. Who the hell knows?” he added. “So far, so good. But who knows what I’m going to be when I’m 86 years old?”
Did he believe he could have been reelected? “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden said, citing polling.
Concerns about Biden’s age and fitness had followed him since he announced his bid for reelection, but he dropped out of the presidential race under pressure last July after faltering in a debate against Trump. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. She lost to the Republican.
In the interview, Biden said he was considering preemptive pardons but had not decided whether to issue any. When he and Trump met in the Oval Office after the election, Biden said, “I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores.”
Trump didn’t answer one way or the other, Biden said, adding, “He just basically listened.”
Biden said his “greatest fear” is that Trump will eliminate parts of major climate legislation Biden signed in 2022. He also took Trump to task for implying that the driver of the deadly New Year’s Day vehicle attack in New Orleans was an immigrant who had entered the U.S. from Mexico.
The FBI has identified the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. Fourteen people were killed and nearly three dozen were injured in the attack. Jabbar was killed by police.
Biden said he bets many people read what Trump said about the attacker and believe it.
“How do you deal with that?” he said, referring to his successor as someone “not known for telling the truth.”
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Darlene Superville
Published Jan 08, 2025 • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.
The outgoing Democratic president also told USA Today in the interview published Wednesday that he tried during his Oval Office meeting with President-elect Donald Trump to discourage the Republican from going after his political opponents, as he has said he would. And Biden said he had not decided whether to issue sweeping pardons to preemptively protect those individuals from any possible retribution by Trump or the incoming administration.
“I don’t know,” Biden responded when USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page asked if he would’ve had the vigor to serve another four years in office. Biden and Page sat down at the White House on Sunday for the president’s rare interview with a print publication.
Biden, 82, talks about how he didn’t intend to run for president in 2020, but says that when Trump sought reelection last year, “I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old.”
“But I don’t know. Who the hell knows?” he added. “So far, so good. But who knows what I’m going to be when I’m 86 years old?”
Did he believe he could have been reelected? “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden said, citing polling.
Concerns about Biden’s age and fitness had followed him since he announced his bid for reelection, but he dropped out of the presidential race under pressure last July after faltering in a debate against Trump. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. She lost to the Republican.
In the interview, Biden said he was considering preemptive pardons but had not decided whether to issue any. When he and Trump met in the Oval Office after the election, Biden said, “I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores.”
Trump didn’t answer one way or the other, Biden said, adding, “He just basically listened.”
Biden said his “greatest fear” is that Trump will eliminate parts of major climate legislation Biden signed in 2022. He also took Trump to task for implying that the driver of the deadly New Year’s Day vehicle attack in New Orleans was an immigrant who had entered the U.S. from Mexico.
The FBI has identified the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. Fourteen people were killed and nearly three dozen were injured in the attack. Jabbar was killed by police.
Biden said he bets many people read what Trump said about the attacker and believe it.
“How do you deal with that?” he said, referring to his successor as someone “not known for telling the truth.”
Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends
Did he believe he could have been reelected? "It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes," Biden said, citing polling.
Ex-FBI informant who fabricated bribery story about Bidens gets 6 years
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Alanna Durkin Richer
Published Jan 08, 2025 • 3 minute read
WASHINGTON — A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes that became central to Republicans’ impeachment effort was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty last month in Los Angeles federal court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme in what prosecutors say was an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Smirnov, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, falsely claimed to his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid then-Vice President Biden and his son $5 million each around 2015.
Smirnov’s explosive claim in 2020 came after he expressed “bias” about Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, according to prosecutors. In reality, investigators found Smirnov had only routine business dealings with Burisma starting in 2017 — after Biden’s term as vice president.
Prosecutors noted that Smirnov’s false claim “set off a firestorm in Congress” when it resurfaced years later as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden, a Democrat who defeated Republican then-President Donald Trump in 2020. The Biden administration dismissed the House impeachment effort as a “stunt.”
Before Smirnov’s arrest, Republicans had demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the unverified allegations, though they acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if they were true.
“In committing his crimes he betrayed the United States, a country that showed him nothing but generosity, including conferring on him the greatest honor it can bestow, citizenship,” Justice Department special counsel David Weiss’ team wrote in court papers. “He repaid the trust the United States placed in him to be a law-abiding naturalized citizen and, more specifically, that one of its premier law enforcement agencies placed in him to tell the truth as a confidential human source, by attempting to interfere in a Presidential election.”
Smirnov will get credit for the time he has served behind bars since his arrest last February in the case accusing him of lying to the FBI. Prosecutors in November brought new tax charges alleging he concealed millions of dollars of income he earned between 2020 and 2022.
Smirnov’s lawyers are seeking no more than four years behind bars, noting the “substantial assistance” he provided to the U.S. government as an FBI informant for more than a decade. Smirnov’s lawyers noted in court papers that he suffers from serious health issues related to his eyes and argue that a lengthy sentence would “unnecessarily prolong his suffering.”
“Mr. Smirnov has learned a very grave lesson and proffers to this Honorable Court that he will not find himself on this side of the law again,” attorneys Richard Schonfeld and David Chesnoff told the judge in court papers.
Smirnov was prosecuted by Weiss, who also brought gun and tax charges against Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced in December after being convicted at a trial in the gun case and pleading guilty to tax charges. But he was pardoned by his father, who said he believed “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
In seeking a lighter sentence, Smirnov’s lawyers wrote in court papers that both Hunter Biden and President-elect Trump — who was charged in two federal cases by a different special counsel — “have walked free and clear of any meaningful punishment.”
Special counsel Jack Smith abandoned the two federal cases against Trump — accusing him of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss and hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida — after Trump’s presidential victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Alanna Durkin Richer
Published Jan 08, 2025 • 3 minute read
WASHINGTON — A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes that became central to Republicans’ impeachment effort was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty last month in Los Angeles federal court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme in what prosecutors say was an effort to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Smirnov, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, falsely claimed to his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid then-Vice President Biden and his son $5 million each around 2015.
Smirnov’s explosive claim in 2020 came after he expressed “bias” about Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, according to prosecutors. In reality, investigators found Smirnov had only routine business dealings with Burisma starting in 2017 — after Biden’s term as vice president.
Prosecutors noted that Smirnov’s false claim “set off a firestorm in Congress” when it resurfaced years later as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden, a Democrat who defeated Republican then-President Donald Trump in 2020. The Biden administration dismissed the House impeachment effort as a “stunt.”
Before Smirnov’s arrest, Republicans had demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the unverified allegations, though they acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if they were true.
“In committing his crimes he betrayed the United States, a country that showed him nothing but generosity, including conferring on him the greatest honor it can bestow, citizenship,” Justice Department special counsel David Weiss’ team wrote in court papers. “He repaid the trust the United States placed in him to be a law-abiding naturalized citizen and, more specifically, that one of its premier law enforcement agencies placed in him to tell the truth as a confidential human source, by attempting to interfere in a Presidential election.”
Smirnov will get credit for the time he has served behind bars since his arrest last February in the case accusing him of lying to the FBI. Prosecutors in November brought new tax charges alleging he concealed millions of dollars of income he earned between 2020 and 2022.
Smirnov’s lawyers are seeking no more than four years behind bars, noting the “substantial assistance” he provided to the U.S. government as an FBI informant for more than a decade. Smirnov’s lawyers noted in court papers that he suffers from serious health issues related to his eyes and argue that a lengthy sentence would “unnecessarily prolong his suffering.”
“Mr. Smirnov has learned a very grave lesson and proffers to this Honorable Court that he will not find himself on this side of the law again,” attorneys Richard Schonfeld and David Chesnoff told the judge in court papers.
Smirnov was prosecuted by Weiss, who also brought gun and tax charges against Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced in December after being convicted at a trial in the gun case and pleading guilty to tax charges. But he was pardoned by his father, who said he believed “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
In seeking a lighter sentence, Smirnov’s lawyers wrote in court papers that both Hunter Biden and President-elect Trump — who was charged in two federal cases by a different special counsel — “have walked free and clear of any meaningful punishment.”
Special counsel Jack Smith abandoned the two federal cases against Trump — accusing him of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss and hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida — after Trump’s presidential victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Ex-FBI informant who fabricated bribery story about Bidens gets 6 years
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty last month in Los Angeles federal court to tax evasion and lying to the FBI about the phony bribery scheme
