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.”

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    9 months ago

    That’s just not true. A significant portion of the republican party will only turn out for Trump.

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      9 months ago

      I think that’s true right now, but the trump crowd is dumb and easily angered. You honestly don’t think they’d be angry enough to go vote against Biden if their lord Trump got thrown in prison and Nikki eludes to pardoning Trump as a priority when she gets into office after the conniving democrats locked him up and/or stopped him from running? Do you not think Trump will back another candidate and tell his Lil fan club to go vote for them if Trump thinks it will keep him out of prison?

      I work around some of these people. I can assure you that they will go vote.

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        9 months ago

        You honestly don’t think they’d be angry enough to go vote against Biden

        No, I don’t. They would whing that the system is rigged, just like they did in the last election, and not bother voting at all.