BREAKING: More details behind the bloodless coup our nation just experienced from Seymour Hersh -

[mystery-ak]

@amuse
@amuse
BREAKING: More details behind the bloodless coup our nation just experienced from Seymour Hersh -

By Saturday, July 20, former President Barack Obama was deeply involved, and there was talk that he would place a call to Biden. It was not clear whether Biden had been examined or just what happened to him in Las Vegas. “The Big Three,” the official said, referring to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, continued to be directly involved. “On Sunday morning,” the official told Seymour Hersh, with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.’” The amendment provides that when the president is determined by the vice president and others to be unfit to carry out the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall assume those duties.

On Monday, July 15, Biden took off on Air Force One on a campaign trip to Nevada, a tossup state that Biden won in 2020 by a little more than 30,000 votes. On Tuesday, he gave the keynote address to 5,000 members of the NAACP at its annual convention. The next day, the president, apparently stricken while campaigning with a yet-to-be-revealed illness, broke from his schedule and made a police escort race to Air Force One after initially telling police they were heading to the nearest emergency room.

A series of blog posts, local police reports, internet messages, and a report in the Daily Mail disclosed further details of Biden’s trip to Las Vegas and his abrupt return home to Delaware. Seymour Hersh reviewed these reports this week with a senior official in Washington who helped him fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray, culminating in the president’s withdrawal from the race. It’s a story not unlike Seven Days in May, the Cold War thriller in which a colonel played by Kirk Douglas foils a coup staged by a general played by Burt Lancaster. None of what you read below comes from an official account by the White House.

[libertybele]

 

[mountaineer]

Incredible. 

[mystery-ak]

I guarantee you one thing...Biden did not have covid..that was just an excuse to isolate him from the press about some medical condition he developed in Vegas...

[Hoodat]

I guarantee you one thing...Biden did not have covid..that was just an excuse to isolate him from the press about some medical condition he developed in Vegas...

That is already known.  They had already cleared a flight pattern for AF1 to fly into Dover a day before he allegedly tested positive for Covid.

[Hoodat]

LEAVING LAS VEGAS

Inside the last tortured days of the Biden campaign

Seymour Hersh  ∙  Jul 27, 2024

In late 1967, as the Vietnam War was raging and President Lyndon B. Johnson was becoming increasingly unpopular, I was recruited to handle the press and write speeches for Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, the only Democrat gutsy enough to run against the Democratic president.

Months later, working round the clock in a cluttered suite in a New Hampshire motel, I was curious about a courier from New York City who flew up most nights on the last Eastern Airlines flight. The courier would dash to the suite with a canvas bag attached to his wrist and turn it over to one of the campaign’s richest and most enthusiastic benefactors. The guy was a multi-millionaire who ran a major stock market fund but was happy to sit in the suite I was then sharing with Richard Goodwin, a real political pro—unlike me and the college brats on the campaign—and just watch and do the various errands that needed doing.

One night I asked the millionaire what was in the bag. He threw it to me, with a key. I unlocked it and found myself staring at dozens of shiny packages of 100 dollar bills. I had no idea then or now whether the funds were properly reported and did not ask. So that’s how it works, I thought  .  .  .

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas


Paywall

[kevindavis007]

Sorry, but I don't take this Russian sympathizer seriously.

[DCPatriot]

I guarantee you one thing...Biden did not have covid..that was just an excuse to isolate him from the press about some medical condition he developed in Vegas...

Obama played the "Trump" card, pun intended.

Resign immediately or we're going 25th Amendment, in which case Hunter will be exposed for prosecution and eventually so will the entire Biden family.

Hearing that threat, any 81 year old will grab his/her chest

And after seeing what they just were able to do about Pres. Trump in Butler, PA., he got the hell out of Vegas immediately electing to go directly to his home in Delaware.

[mountaineer]

Post Millennial:

A new Substack out from Seymour Hersch indicates that former President Barack Obama and VP Kamala Harris, now presumptive Democrat nominee for president, threatened sitting President Joe Biden with the potential invocation of the 25th Amendment if he didn't drop out the presidential race and cede that spot to the veep. This would mean that not only did they force Biden out of the race, but that the Democrats know full well that Biden isn't fit to serve out the rest of his term, but are comfortable letting him continued as a figure head if it serves their efforts to retain power for the party.

Biden engaged in a debate with former President and GOP nominee for president Donald Trump on June 27. It was so bad that almost instantly Democrat leaders and pundits were looking for a way to get Biden off the ticket. They could see that there was very little chance that Biden, in his diminished state, could beat Trump at the ballot box. The party elite were aghast and worked hard both in public and private to oust Biden. While much of that played out in leaked rumor, speculation, it turns out, per Hersch, that what was going on behind the scenes was a kind of coup, complete with threats from the Obama Kamala team.

"By Saturday, July 20," Hersch writes, "former President Barack Obama was deeply involved, and there was talk that he would place a call to Biden. It was not clear whether Biden had been examined or just what happened to him in Las Vegas. 'The Big Three,' the official said, referring to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, continued to be directly involved. 'On Sunday morning,' the official told me, with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, 'Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.' The amendment provides that when the president is determined by the vice president and others to be unfit to carry out the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall assume those duties."

"'It was clear at this point,' the official said," per Hersch, "'that she would get the nod'—that is, the support to run for the presidency in the November election. 'But Obama also made it clear,' the official said, 'that he was not going to immediately endorse her.  ...

It had been rumored that Pelosi and Schumer wanted Biden out. It had been rumored that Obama had given Hollywood A-lister George Clooney the go-ahead to write his op ed in The New York Times calling for Biden to step aside. ...

[Timber Rattler]

Like Laura Loomer, I take everything Seymour Hersh says with a BIG grain of salt.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1817352933211840960


Obama threatened Biden with 25th Amendment push, saying he had ‘Kamala’s approval’: report

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/28/obama-threatened-biden-with-25th-amendment-push-saying-he-had-kamalas-approval-report-1475721/

[catfish1957]

Hear that?  Those are crickets from the dim party voters who are complaining that their primary vote was circumvented.

Just one more reason of 10,000 that these folks are mindless sheep.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Hear that?  Those are crickets from the dim party voters who are complaining that their primary vote was circumvented.

Just one more reason of 10,000 that these folks are mindless sheep.

We were all in agreement that the guy was exposed publicly as senile and not capable of another term.  In fact, most believe he isn't mentally capable of governing right now.  When Speaker Johnson suggested that the 25th Amendment should be invoked, we applauded him.

This was not commonly acknowledged by Democrats before and during the primaries.  But that very clearly changed after that debate, and in the aftermath.

So I don't get these crocodile tears about a "coup" and the votes of Democrat voters being overturned.   Seems to me that most Democrat voters didn't want him either after that debate.  Pretending that their votes were usurped when there clearly was a major, catastrophic event for their candidate after the primaries were over, strikes me as disingenuous.

On our end, it seems more like anger that we don't get to run against the guy who has dementia.

[catfish1957]

We were all in agreement that the guy was exposed publicly as senile and not capable of another term.  In fact, most believe he isn't mentally capable of governing right now.  When Speaker Johnson suggested that the 25th Amendment should be invoked, we applauded him.

This was not commonly acknowledged by Democrats before and during the primaries.  But that very clearly changed after that debate, and in the aftermath.

So I don't get these crocodile tears about a "coup" and the votes of Democrat voters being overturned.   Seems to me that most Democrat voters didn't want him either after that debate.  Pretending that their votes were usurped when there clearly was a major, catastrophic event for their candidate after the primaries were over, strikes me as disingenuous.

On our end, it seems more like anger that we don't get to run against the guy who has dementia.

Interesting to think that if the debate hadn't taken place,  that Biden would likely still be propped up like Bernie (Weekend variety), and the nominee.

Another classic example of be careful what you ask for. 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Interesting to think that if the debate hadn't taken place,  that Biden would likely still be propped up like Bernie (Weekend variety), and the nominee.

Another classic example of be careful what you ask for.

Yup.

[Timber Rattler]

On our end, it seems more like anger that we don't get to run against the guy who has dementia.

Indeed so.

 

[cato potatoe]

The democrats finally took out the trash.  Give them credit.  They are committed to winning the election, so they put forth a viable candidate after Biden demonstrated profound senility.  If Trump had a similar collapse, and the party removed him, MAGA would label it a coup and sit out the election. 

In the coming weeks, Kamala Harris will be paired with someone who is projected to bring the most electoral votes, and not the person who sucked up to Kamala Harris more than anyone else.  The democrats want to win the election.

[Free Vulcan]

All that remains to be seen is if Kamablahblah's issues are better or worse than Old Skeez's mental issues.