Sportscaster Bob Costas believes President Joe Biden needs to be shown the door if he refuses to step aside and let someone else run in his stead.
Appearing last week on comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show, “Real Time,” he pointed to special counsel Robert K. Hur’s devastating report as proof of why Biden desperately needs to step aside before it’s too late.
“When it comes to Biden, this is like the truth that no one, until very recently, wants to say out loud,” said Costas. “But my friends will tell you, I’ve been saying it for four years: This is Emperor’s New Clothes stuff.”
“Joe Biden should have run on a firm promise that he would be a one term president. The only reason he is president is that he’s not Donald Trump. Then the Dems could have gotten a lot of people up in the bullpen, and they could have sorted through those people,” he added.
“If Biden’s hubris is such that he doesn’t understand the best interests of his party and more importantly, his country, then he has to be shown the door, period,” the sportscaster continued.
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But why is it so important that someone else runs instead of Biden? Because Trump is a threat to democracy, according to Costas.
“Because if Trump is a threat to democracy, and in many ways he is, so too are the Dems who are in danger of being as feckless as the Republicans have long been shameless,” he said.
“If they’re going to send this guy out there, if Trump is a monster, and in many ways he is, you’re going to send this guy out to slay the dragon? I don’t think so,” he added.
FYI, conservatives would argue that President Biden — who tried to, one, force a vaccine mandate down millions of Americans’ throats, and two, revive Jim Crow-like racism — is far more of a monster than Trump.
Responding to Costas’ argument, Maher rebutted the idea that the president had run on a promise to not run again.
“By the way, he did not run on a promise. He did not run on a promise not to run again, but he did run on a big hint. He said, I see myself as a bridge. … I read that as one term. And I guess the question now is, is it too late?” he said.
“And I don’t think it is, because I still think you can do it at the convention. I don’t — and people have said to me, ‘oh, that’s ridiculous they’ll look like nothing.’ Nobody gives a f–k what you do at the convention. They’d be thrilled if they did it the day before the election. You could switch him out at the convention,” he added.
“You could,” Costas replied.
“And he could say, well, look, you know, I’ve had a health issue or whatever I want to spend more …,” Maher responded before being cut off by his other guest, Caitlin Flanagan.
“Because he didn’t really have to run much in the primaries. He doesn’t have delegates to give to someone else that the party would come together and say,” she said.
“Well, if a guy says, I can’t run, then you have to do it, then it has to be somebody else, that it’s an open convention. We’ve had open conventions many times,” Maher replied.
“Different scenario a long time ago. But when Johnson in March, after a close primary with Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire, when Johnson said, I’m not going to run for another term, then Humphrey stepped up,” Costas then said.
The discussion occurred a few days after Hur dropped his devastating report. The report states in effect that Biden did mishandle classified documents but that the president is too senile to be prosecuted.
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“[A]t trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur’s report reads.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” it continues.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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