Dennis Prager Show - Tucker Carlson's Putin Interview and Joe Biden's Memory Loss—(Your Weekend Summary)
Aired: 2024-02-12
Duration: 04:36


=== Biden's Memory Defense (04:35) ===

[00:00:01]  Hi everybody, two big items to talk about.
[00:00:06]  The Putin interview with Tucker Carlson, which went over two hours.
[00:00:13]  And there were some fascinating aspects and some truly boring aspects.
[00:00:22]  I don't know, well, I think I do.
[00:00:25]  I was going to say, I don't know what he had in mind.
[00:00:28]  With this half-hour answer, it's probably the longest answer to one question in American media history.
[00:00:38]  By the way, I do have a feeling that the...
[00:00:41]  Is he the Washington Post reporter?
[00:00:44]  Who does he work for?
[00:00:46]  The one that they have imprisoned in Russia.
[00:00:50]  Wall Street Journal, yeah.
[00:00:52]  I have a feeling that he will be released.
[00:00:56]  In the not-too-distant future, based on the interview.
[00:00:59]  And I was glad that Tucker Carlson brought him up.
[00:01:02]  He's 32 years old.
[00:01:04]  I didn't realize how young he was.
[00:01:07]  The other item, and we'll get to that, the other item is the remarkable special counsel, Robert Herr, says a jury might not convict the elderly, forgetful, doddering president.
[00:01:26]  I mean, if that is not an indictment in and of itself, he is too incompetent to stand trial.
[00:01:36]  There is a sort of tacit admission that he's guilty of the crimes that he's being charged with, of taking government documents that he did not have a right to take.
[00:01:49]  But he can't stand trial because the jury...
[00:01:55]  I wonder if this has ever been rendered before.
[00:01:58]  I won't accuse you of a crime because the jury will take pity on you because you're mentally incompetent.
[00:02:08]  Do you think that's ever happened before?
[00:02:11]  So what was on his mind to spare Biden the humiliation of being found guilty?
[00:02:25]  I can't believe on face value that that is what is involved.
[00:02:35]  In a famous case from the 1990s, the mobster Vincent Gigante offered what became known as the bathrobe defense.
[00:02:50]  He attended his arraignment in pajamas and a bathrobe.
[00:02:55]  And claims to be mentally impaired.
[00:02:58]  Regarding President Biden's misuse of classified documents, the country is now asked to believe the forgetful elderly man defense.
[00:03:08]  Do you realize you could never prosecute any old person under this thinking?
[00:03:17]  That's likely to be the main public takeaway from Special Counsel Robert Hurst's 345-page report.
[00:03:25]  Of his investigation into the secret documents Mr. Biden kept in various places.
[00:03:33]  Mr. Herr reports that he uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed.
[00:03:40]  Wow, disclosed.
[00:03:42]  Was Donald Trump accused of disclosing?
[00:03:48]  Disclosing as well?
[00:03:49]  Not just taking?
[00:03:53]  After his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
[00:03:58]  But he concludes that, quote, no criminal charges are warranted, unquote, in large part because he doesn't believe a jury would convict, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
[00:04:13]  The report says Mr. Biden kept documents with classified markings about Afghanistan, an issue about which he had taken a particular interest.
[00:04:22]  During the Obama presidency, he also kept notebooks, quote, implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods, unquote, in his garage, offices, and basement den.