00:16:13.360They were going, oh, crap, this has gone really, really badly.
00:16:17.400And these questions are not going away.
00:16:20.520And, you know, he stated there that the special counsel concluded he did not violate the law.
00:16:25.120That is not remotely what the Biden Justice Department concluded.
00:16:29.420Let me read you the beginning of the report, the executive summary.
00:16:32.500It begins with, quote, we conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.
00:16:38.340We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.
00:16:45.620Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
00:16:56.060Now, note, he said in that interview, I did not disclose them.
00:16:58.960Well, in the second paragraph of the report, it says our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
00:17:16.300These materials included, I'm still reading from the report, these materials included, one, marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and two, notebooks containing Mr. Biden's handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
00:17:38.520By the way, sources and methods, what that means is this was sensitive enough that disclosing this could endanger the lives of covert operatives, that when you're disclosing sources and methods, it means you can reveal the identity of a spy or it means you can reveal that, say, we have somebody's phone tapped or the ability to engage in surveillance.
00:18:00.520And so, if you're revealing sources and so, if you're revealing sources and methods, that's a big damn deal.
00:18:06.660FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.
00:18:16.300However, for the reasons summarized below, we conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:18:23.680Prosecution of Mr. Biden is also unworded based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice's principles of federal prosecution.
00:18:34.480For these reasons, we decline prosecution of Mr. Biden.
00:18:38.500Now, what are the reasons they say don't prosecute him?
00:18:41.220That one of the key reasons they rely on front and center is they say he's too damn old and can't remember anything.
00:18:47.840And so, therefore, you could not prosecute him.
00:18:51.760But I'm going to read from just a couple of pages later.
00:20:58.800Biden's limited precision and recall during his interviews with his ghostwriter and with our office.
00:21:06.320So notice the ghostwriters back in 2017 and with our offices this past year.
00:21:11.980Jurors may hesitate to place too much evidentiary weight on a single eight word utterance to his ghostwriter about finding classified documents in Virginia.
00:21:21.500In the absence of other, more direct evidence.
00:21:26.220And they go on to say, we have also considered that at trial, Mr.
00:21:34.260Biden 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.
00:21:47.740Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
00:21:59.500It would be difficult to convince a jury that they could convict him, by then a former president well into his 80s, of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
00:22:13.220Now, stop and think. This is the Department of Justice saying you couldn't convince a jury he is capable of a mental state of willfulness.
00:22:25.100Real quick, I want to tell you about something that's really important to us here at Verdict.
00:22:30.940It is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:22:35.220So many of you have been asking about how you can help when it comes to the atrocities that were committed by Hamas last October 7th,
00:22:43.200which kicked off a vicious war as Israel is defending herself from terrorists on every side.
00:22:48.920The toll on the Israeli people is staggering, and it is massive.
00:22:53.420Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been forced from their homes.
00:22:56.940Entire communities have been torn apart.
00:22:59.440Lives have been devastated by death and destruction.
00:23:02.600And that is where the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews comes in.
00:23:07.420They are right there, literally, in the middle of all of this every single day.
00:23:10.960And what are they doing? Distributing critical essentials like food, medicine, and emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of suffering Jews.
00:23:21.140The need is great, and that is why I'm partnering with IFCJ right now.
00:30:54.280I'll also point out something else, which is this report implicitly exonerates Donald Trump, which is an enormous problem for Biden as well.
00:31:07.060Because, look, one of their big marquee cases against Trump.
00:31:10.760Now, they're prosecuting him for damn near everything, including late library books.
00:31:14.260But but one of their marquee cases is that Trump possessed classified documents in Mar-a-Laga.
00:31:19.440And let me read again from the report.
00:31:24.400Quote, contemporary evidence suggests that when Mr. Biden left office in 2017, he believed he was allowed to keep the notebooks in his home.
00:31:32.440In a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in April 2017, Mr. Biden explained that despite his staff's views to the contrary, he did not think he was required to turn in his note cards to the National Archives where they were stored in a skiff.
00:31:45.660And he had not wanted to do so at trial, he would argue plausibly that he thought the same thing about his notebooks.
00:31:54.000If this is what Mr. Biden thought, we believe he was mistaken about what the law permits.
00:31:59.140But this view finds some support in historical practice.
00:32:04.360The clearest example is President Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 with eight years worth of handwritten diaries, which he appears to have kept at his California home, even though they contain top secret information.
00:32:17.160During criminal litigation involving a former Reagan administration official in 1989 and 90, the Department of Justice stated in public court filings that the, quote, currently classified diaries were Mr. Reagan's, quote, personal records.
00:32:33.040Yet we know of no steps, yet we know of no steps, the Department or other agencies took to investigate Mr. Reagan for handling, mishandling classified information or to retrieve or secure his diaries.
00:32:44.040Most jurors would likely find evidence of this precedent and Mr. Biden's claimed reliance on it, which we expect would be admitted at trial to be compelling evidence that Mr. Biden did not act willfully.
00:32:59.760As with the marked classified documents, because the evidence is not sufficient to convict Mr. Biden for willfully retaining the notebooks, we decline prosecution.
00:33:12.900Now, that entire passage, you could write word for word and simply replace the word Biden with Trump, and it would be a major defense for Trump.
00:33:26.280And this incoherence, the Department of Justice is going to have a nightmare because I promise you Trump's defense lawyers are going to quote that back at them and say, you know what?
00:33:39.900And if they were right about Biden, by the way, on this podcast, we walk through how the historical precedent was president after president after president had kept documents, including President Reagan, including President Obama, including President Clinton.
00:33:55.640That's what the Department of Justice just concluded as their reason not to prosecute Biden.
00:34:01.660And the obvious screaming question is, well, then why do you go after the opposing party other than because you are politically trying to stop the voters from voting for the other guy?
00:34:22.220Bidenomics is a complete and total disaster.
00:34:24.200And I try to make sure that every day when I wake up, that doesn't ruin my day.
00:34:28.740Now, most of you know, I do a radio show every morning at 7 a.m.
00:34:32.420And I start my day with a hot America first cup of blackout coffee.
00:34:37.900I'm sick and tired of giving my money to companies that hate my values.
00:34:41.100And you know which coffee companies I'm talking about.
00:34:43.400Those woke liberal companies out there.
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00:35:09.100Now, I love the cup of coffee and I drink coffee every day.
00:36:27.460That was clear from the press conference tonight.
00:36:29.200Right. But it looks like and this could change.
00:36:31.840But as of 1 a.m. right now, it looks like Democrats are saying it's official.
00:36:35.780We are not going to support Joe Biden in this presidential run any longer.
00:36:40.600We got to figure out how to offload him.
00:36:43.140Look, I think the odds remain very low that he steps down before the end of his term.
00:36:48.620I think as long as he is able to to stand vertically and not fall over, he is going to finish out this year.
00:36:56.080That being said, as I said at the beginning of this pod, I think the odds that the Democrats push him aside and replace it with with Michelle Obama about 65 to 35 or put it another way.
00:37:11.240More likely than not that that that the Democrats decide this guy cannot be our nominee in November.
00:37:19.960One other question I do want to ask you, does this change the way that Republicans investigate Joe Biden, knowing that the DOJ is now basically said you can't charge this guy with anything or we're not going to charge this guy with anything.
00:37:34.460If they wouldn't do it now, why would they change that logic moving forward?
00:37:38.420How does that change the way that James Comer and Jim Jordan are doing their investigations?
00:37:42.340And should it change the way they're doing their investigations at all?
00:37:48.500And as we've discussed at great length on this podcast, the evidence of Joe Biden's corruption, of his deliberately selling favors from the vice president of the United States to foreign oligarchs, to Russian oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs, Chinese communists for millions and millions of dollars.
00:38:07.360That evidence is very significant, and it is repeated evidence not only of doing so, but doing so willfully, doing so deliberately, and then aggressively covering it up and lying about it.
00:38:20.520And I think we will see the House continue to lay out that evidence and to lay it out at great length.
00:38:25.580And I would point out, number one, an immediate step for that potentially is impeaching Joe Biden, and the Department of Justice doesn't get a vote on whether or not to impeach Joe Biden.
00:38:37.840But number two, whether or not Biden gets prosecuted for bribery is ultimately not going to be a question decided by this Department of Justice.
00:38:50.080The chances that Merrick Garland brings charges are 0.00%.
00:38:54.300He is acting, and he has acted his entire tenure like a political operative who works for the DNC.
00:39:02.180So Merrick Garland's not going to do it.
00:39:04.220And indeed, there is considerable evidence, underscored by two IRS whistleblowers who are career employees and Democrats, that Merrick Garland actively lied to Congress under oath, committed felonies, and obstructed justice.
00:39:18.880So with or without this report, this DOJ was never going to prosecute Joe Biden.
00:39:24.760That being said, if the House continues to lay out the evidence and we have a Department of Justice that is not controlled by Joe Biden, if there's a Trump Department of Justice and there is real evidence of bribery and corruption of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the extended Biden family, I think the possibility of prosecution is real and significant.
00:39:47.800One other question, and this is something that I think so many Americans want to know.
00:39:53.120When you see this report that just came out and you see the cognitive decline and what they're stating in this report, you've got to ask this question, who is running this country right now?
00:40:03.640Because if it is as bad as the special prosecutor is saying it is, behind closed doors, and we know how this media has propped him up and protected him, and we know how the White House has limited his schedule.