Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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But I couldn't finish. There were so many different things that I never got to the end. But I would say that the big ones... You know, there are huge glaring questions, which is unusual. For instance, who was president the last four years, especially the last year? I mean, I think that's an enormous question. Tony Blinken.
That's the problem. We don't really know.
So anyway, sorry to interrupt. His State Department was also involved in the censorship stuff too. Who was president? Who was president?
Yeah, no, I mean, I think – of all the crimes that are on the table and the potential corruption issues, people signing documents or somehow getting documents signed by an incompetent president or an unfit president has to rank up there with the most serious things that have ever happened in American history, right? So you have to look at what was the process of the White House operation, right?
Who was actually running things? We know from a surface point,
who was who held the posts right so ron klain was the the chief of staff we know roughly who else was in joe biden's orbit what what were the what was the schedule you know did he did he sign things by auto pen because they have this this machine that does uh and who and who was who basically had the power of attorney to turn that on right like these are all questions that we have to get answers to what was the day-to-day operation of the biden white house uh
And again, especially in the last year, because I think, you know, that gets to bigger questions of who was really making these big foreign policy decisions and who was making decisions about things like, you know, cutting off the Democratic primaries to challengers. You know, these are big party decisions, not necessarily White House decisions. Who decided to kick Trump? Biden off the ticket.
Biden on July 13th was giving a speech in Detroit and he's like, I'm running. I mean, he couldn't have been more affirmative about the idea that he was not going to drop out of the race. Within seven days, he was out of the race.
Within three days after that Detroit thing, there were stories leaked out in Politico that were basically saying that Nancy Pelosi was going to ask him to or going to try to pressure him to drop out. But I don't believe that. I think we need to find out exactly what those communications were.
I mean, who had the authority to push the president of the United States off his own ticket unless he had a sudden change of heart?
mean i i've heard that again i don't know is the truth but um i've heard that it's very conspicuous that when he when he wanted to say things he said it on camera but there were all kinds of things where the wording was much more careful and that was done on twitter or in a letter or in a press release i mean even even the the note explaining the pardons who wrote that right it was on a the you know biden's twitter account i doubt
He's sitting there tweeting. So it's just a coup.
It's on the table. It has to be. Because, you know, Jill Biden has been very circumspect in talking about it. She's said these really curious things about how she wants to reevaluate her relationships. I think she was referring to Nancy Pelosi. But... What exactly happened in that one week period between, you know, the middle of July and the 21st or so?
And then what happened in between the 21st and the 22nd or whenever it was when Biden suddenly came out and made Kamala the nominee? Like, how did that happen? Who made that decision?
No. There were stories, but they were incredibly incomplete. And this is one of the things where, you know, I was looking at it even from just a professionalism point of view in terms of the New York Times, the Washington Post, all of these papers. How does nobody ask who made the decision to... to nominate Kamala Harris. How did that happen? How was he kicked off?
Or how did he come to that decision? Normally, there would be a big show of that, right? There would be... Somebody would come out and give an interview to, I don't know, 60 minutes and say, well, here's how that happened, right? And whether it was true or not, there would be a grand explanation. Whenever there's something...
big that happens with the president here they just they just kind of did a little tweet or a press release and there were things that were leaked out in newspapers none of it made any sense so you know they have to get all those communications and i think that's what was important there you know there were preservation letters that were sent out by some senate committees i hope it captured a lot of this stuff but we'll see you know
I've only heard theories about this, right? And that's the problem. It's kind of irresponsible for reporters to speculate. I agree. We don't know. All we know, we saw little bits and pieces of things. Like there was a really weird moment You might remember when Biden said something to the effect of, we can't allow Putin to stay in office or whatever it was, right?
And people immediately interpreted that as a regime change comment, right? 47 minutes later, the White House comes out with a walkback clarifying statement. saying, you know, our policy towards Russia is unchanged or something ambiguous like that. But there were leaks in the press about what happened there.
And there was a remarkable line in one of the stories saying that Biden was allowed to participate in the workshopping of that second statement. How is he not in charge of it, first of all, right? And they're talking about Jake Sullivan is involved in the process. But that just gives you a little glimpse into this idea of a collective presidency where, at best, Biden was a participant.
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