The evidence of President Joe Biden’s criminality or cognitive collapse, or possibly both, must be really damning — now that the Justice Department is refusing to comply with House Republicans’ demands for the audio recordings of Biden’s interview with a special prosecutor.
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said Monday that the department’s response was not good enough. He called for Attorney General Merrick Garland to be held in contempt for failing to grant GOP lawmakers’ requests.
According to The Epoch Times on Monday, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte told the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that they do not need the audio of Biden’s interview with Special Prosecutor Robert Hur and that they should stop asking.
As the Tampa Free Press reported in February, Hur’s report into whether Biden mishandled classified information ended with his assessment that the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory is “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor” and having “significant limitations.”
Hur called BIden an “elderly man with a poor memory,” and summed up by saying that while Biden broke the law, he would “likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully — that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.”
Since then, the GOP-led committees have twice issued subpoenas for the Justice Department to turn over the tapes of Hur’s chat with Biden.
On Monday, Uriarte wrote a letter declaring, “We urge the committees to avoid conflict rather than seek it. It is not too late for the committees to choose a different path, to take an offramp towards the ’spirit of dynamic compromise’ that the Constitution requires of us both.”
“The department is willing to hear more from the committees, but at this time your further requests appear attenuated from the committees’ stated purposes—with today’s production, you now have the information you requested,” Uriarte added, suggesting that the written transcripts of Hur’s sit-down with Biden would suffice.
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He also pushed lawakers to not reveal any information they receive from the Justice Department.
“To ensure an adequate opportunity to review these materials for suitability for public release, we respectfully request that the committees not disseminate or otherwise disclose the documents or information therein without prior consultation with the department,” Uriarte wrote.
Rep. Donalds told Newsmax on Monday that it was Uriarte’s response that failed to meet the standard.
“I believe that Merrick Garland has been the one who has obstructed justice on behalf of the president of the United States,” Donalds told the network.
“If you look at the way that main [the] Justice [Department] was handling the Hunter Biden investigation before House Oversight started doing their own investigations, it would demonstrate to you that they were basically holding the bag, slowing everything down so that they can get through the election,” he continued.
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“And then after the election, then who cares at that point. That’s what they were trying to do.”
“I think that Merrick Garland withholding this audio recording from Congress is frankly a terrible precedent,” Donalds added.
“Consider the fact that you had Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats impeach Donald Trump over a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Donald Trump releases the transcript, and they’re saying, ‘Oh, yes, see, this proves it,’ knowing that the transcript absolved Donald Trump, and that’s how crazy and radical the Democrats are,” said Donalds.
“You compare that to the fact that Merrick Garland won’t release an audio recording of the president of the United States? That is a mockery, and it is a shame. He should be held in contempt if he doesn’t comply.”
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