Thing is, he doesn’t have loyalists. They don’t care about him.
The concern from the Biden Administration is that selected or edited portions of the tapes will be released as means of embarrassing the President. We have repeatedly seen Chairman Comer cite partial and misleading evidence about the President and his family during the past year and a half. There’s no reason to believe he Comer will not continue in this biased and inappropriate manner.
Keep lowering the bar for the upcoming debates. Remember, the debates where the Biden camp is insisting on no teleprompters.
Loyalists to the agenda. Sure, they will toss him like yesterday’s trash when he is no longer useful. But, until then…zealotry.
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They could have done so with the transcript. I guess he does sound like a drooling moron on tape.
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the privilege exists to"
allow the president free flow in the deliberative process in the advice he receives (not an issue, this was not that)
national security (this is not that)
to a lesser extent, to protect the integrity of an investigation, which also does not apply, the investigation is over, and the substance of the interview has supposedly already been released and executive privilege waived.
It does NOT exist to allay the Presidents fears that he might possibly be embarrassed. The privilege is to protect the information, not the media.
The proper thing for the administration to do here, is to negotiate with the house committee and allow them to hear the tapes in closed session. That however does not change the fact that there is no valid claim of privilege attached to these recordings.
using the authority of the government to benefit a candidate in an election is a violation of the hatch act.
fear of what might happen is not a reason to break the law
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fear of embarrassment is not a valid claim of privilege
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I think he’s just nasty by nature.
In any event he isn’t the kindly uncle type libs would have us think.
Anyone can be edited to sound like a fool; you can even be edited to sound as if you admire Hannibal Lecter, but doing so serves no valid congressional purpose.
Triggered fanboy outburst noted. 
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I look at it like this, If you’re worried about selective release…put it out yourself. Take for instance Trumps’ “bloodbath” comment. The bidenites cut that up and spread it out like proggy bait for all the little minions ro get their rage on. Until, the rest of the statement came out and made the bidenites look the fool.
Unless the are no redeeming factors in bidens tape, or it doesn’t match the transcript…there should be no issue.
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To be fair, no editing is requirent for biden to look the fool. But, even so…release it yourself as I said above.
which still does not comprise a valid claim of privilege.
I guess we’ve pivoted to some executive privilege rathole because libs know Alito wasn’t making a pro-steal statement.
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and they are slowly learning that preventing embarrassment is not a valid claim of privilege either.
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Alito and the flag was a pretty weak and desperate deflection for the getgo.
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That is a concern, I grant you that. But it isn’t a lawful reason to claim executive privilege.
Good example of “I don’t have an actual answer to that point, so I’ll insult the poster instead.”
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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