Republicans issued a subpoena for the audiotape of the Robert Hur-Joe Biden interview purportedly as part of the classified documents criminal investigation. They need it for the impeachment inquiry, they claim. Of course, nobody with half a brain believes that. The real reason is because they’re hoping it will give them political ammunition to fuel their fictional narrative about President Biden’s mental state.
Now, two Republican House members have gone on Fox News and flat-out admitted it. Byron Donalds started the confession by trotting out the new GOP conspiracy theory that President Biden was “jacked up” on drugs for his rousing State of the Union address, which they claim is the only reason he was able to perform so well. Host Maria Bartiromo asked if there should be drug testing before the presidential debate, and that’s when Donalds spilled the beans:
“So the American people need to understand if they’re giving him some injection so that he can actually look like he’s coherent and he’s with us, because the other parts of the time he’s not. This is why we want to get the Hur tapes, because, obviously, during that session with Robert Hur, things did not go well. The American people need to understand what is the true mental capacity of Joe Biden.”
There it is. The reason they want the audio tapes has nothing to do with the notion that President Biden committed high crimes or misdemeanors. It’s to attack his mental state.
Then, not to be outdone, Anna Paulina Luna confirmed in response to Bartiromo again asking if there should be drug testing:
“Maria, I think that we need to. I think that we need to, you know, we’re talking about someone who has the ability to launch nukes and, frankly…the reason we’re fighting so hard to hear these actual audio of the president during his interview is because we need to make sure that this individual is essentially capable, not just of lading this country, but he can make those tough decisions.
So much for their false pretenses about the subpoena. Their subpoeana has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors and everything to do with politics. Republicans make it easy to deconstruct their lies when they say the quiet part out loud. And why shouldn’t they? They’re so corrupt that they don’t even bother trying to hide it anymore. And their base doesn’t notice or doesn’t care.