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“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment.

The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought by Congress, but was kept under wraps by the government even as Biden campaigned for a second term.

Many of us balked at Hur’s conclusion that no charges were appropriate despite the fact that the President removed classified material for decades, stored it in grossly negligent ways, and moved it around to unsecure locations, including his garage in Delaware.

Given President Donald Trump’s indictment for the same offenses, it was hard to imagine how the Special Counsel could not recommend the same criminal charges (presumably after he left office).

Instead, Hur declared it would have been hard to get a jury to convict Biden because he was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

It appears that Trump, on the other hand, was presumptively not sympathetic or well-meaning and possessed a good memory for prosecution.

The contrast was glaring and only reinforced the view of many citizens that there are two tracks for justice in Washington.

Soon after the report’s release, President Biden gave an irate press conference in which he lied about the findings of his culpability and lashed out at any suggestion that he had gapped or stumbled in the interview.

For example, when reporters raised how Biden forgot when his son Beau died, Biden angrily responded, “How in the hell dare he raise that?” Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

However, it was not Hur but Biden himself who raised the death of his son, and he forgot a wide array of dates, including when he served in office.

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The autopen scandal just erupted into a full-blown constitutional crisis.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed in a bombshell interview with Jason Chaffetz that his committee has identified the shadowy White House staffers responsible for wielding President Joe Biden’s infamous autopen during a period when Biden was “clearly in mental decline.”

The autopen scandal first erupted in March when President Trump, in a fiery late-night Truth Social post, declared Joe Biden’s autopen pardons “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.”

Trump revealed that Biden, whom he branded “the Worst President in the History of our Country,” did not personally sign the pardons, nor was he even aware of them.

“Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump wrote.

“The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.”

By April, President Trump escalated his calls for accountability, demanding that the person or persons operating Biden’s autopen be JAILED.

 “Why did the Auto Pen give Schiff a Pardon? Biden knew nothing about it. Who operated the Auto Pen? That is the biggest question being asked in D.C. They almost destroyed our Country. They should all be in jail!!!” Trump said on Truth Social.

On Saturday, Trump reacted to newly released audio from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 interview with Biden and labeled the autopen scandal a “major part” of the “real crime.”

“Whoever had control of the ‘AUTOPEN’ is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!”

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America’s media elites have been guilty of plenty of shocking ethical lapses in recent years. There was the Hunter Biden-laptop scandal in 2020, when liberal media wilfully ignored and flat-out censored a story that harmed Joe Biden, the presidential candidate they supported. There was their wilful refusal to cover the Covid lab-leak theory during the first couple of years of the pandemic. And of course, there was their non-stop coverage of the Russiagate conspiracy theory, during which they insisted for far too long that Trump’s 2016 victory was engineered by Moscow.

These were all significant failures. They undermined public trust in the media and they prevented people from knowing important truths.

But surely the most egregious of all the modern media’s many ethical failures is the years-long cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline. After all, they enabled an enfeebled and unfit man to sit at the head of the most powerful government in the world, finger on the nuclear button.

All the world could see that Biden was a stumbling, non compos mentis geriatric. Yet the corporate media and the Democratic Party insisted he was cogent and robust. No matter how many videos we saw of him falling up the stairs, staring vacantly into space or asking where dead people are, the media just kept on insisting everything was tickety-boo. If anything, liberal journalists would counter, it was Donald Trump who was mentally unfit. It all amounted to a shameful betrayal of journalistic ethics and, indeed, the public.

So now that Biden and his family are damaged goods (and, according to some reports, broke), those who once covered for him are now attempting to rewrite history.

Indeed, two journalists who consistently swore to the public that Biden was sharp as a tack and raring to go now have books out. Both of which ‘reveal’, as if we didn’t already know, that Biden was actually quite forgetful.

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