Cut the ‘deepfake’ baloney and release the Hur audio tapes
NY Post
President Biden pulled another “absent-minded” wander-away Thursday, this time on the world stage; count it as one more reason to publicly release the tape of his conversations with special counsel Robert Hur, so voters can get a take on his mental fitness.
The prez abandoned his fellow G7 leaders to chat with a soldier packing a parachute; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had to gently guide him back.
Back in DC on Wednesday, the House voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to turn over the Hur recordings.
The transcripts (cleaned up to some extent by Merrick’s minions) are already public, but the Biden team has asserted executive privilege to keep the audio under wraps.
Why? This is the interview that convinced Hur that jurors would would see the president as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
That is, Hur believes Biden broke the law by recklessly mishandling classified documents, but shouldn’t be prosecuted, even when out of office, because the jury wouldn’t convict him.
