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Once his comments were shared more widely, few found legitimacy in the comparison.

"Bill Barr equates quarantine with chattel slavery as one of the greatest intrusions of civil liberties in American history. Statements like these make you realize many in this country know nothing about what it truly means to be oppressed," 'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin tweeted in reaction to the comment. Another person criticized the remarks by simply saying, "What a disgrace."

"The thing about Bill Barr's comments is that he knows better. Which is what makes them a whole lot worse," CNN political correspondent Abby D. Pillip added.

"How about WW2 Japanese Internment camps? Jim Crow laws? segregation? Tuskegee Syphilis experiments?" another commenter tweeted, while Star Trek actor George Takei posted: "As someone who spent four years in U.S. internment camps during World War II, I think Bill Barr is full of horse manure."

Barr's comments also angered lockdown supporters, but he earned a round of applause at the DC event after making them.

Some conservatives, many of whom have been critical of local governments' response to the pandemic, also showed support for Barr amidst a pushback against his coronavirus comments and other actions as attorney general.

Since there was never any national lockdown in place, but rather various stay-at-home orders and business shutdown mandates - which still continue in certain areas in most states - Barr chided governors for acting like "bureaucrats" and treating "free citizens as babies that can't take responsibility for themselves and others."

Wow: Joe Biden's staff won't even let him do a "spontaneous" Q&A session without a script. Is he really that far gone?

Obsessive scripting is the only explanation for what happened at last week's Biden question-and-answer session with AFL-CIO union members, when the candidate responded to a young barista's query with the non sequitur, "Move it up here" — then paused.

Anyone who's been following Biden's travails recognizes those words as a cue to his aides to jog the teleprompter, as he's done time and again in recent weeks. (Why an experienced politician with a top-notch staff keeps having this trouble is also worrisome.)

Anyway, after the pause, Joe launched into his "off the cuff" response — which was utter boilerplate: "You know, there used to be a basic bargain in this country, that workers shared in the wealth they helped create." It's beyond appalling that Biden would need reminding of that trope.

His aides won't even discuss the elephant in the room.

After the AFL-CIO footage made the rounds, Fox News' Bret Baier put the obvious question to TJ Ducklo, the campaign's national press secretary:

"Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer Q&As with supporters?"

Ducklo ducked the question — repeatedly, before finally saying, "I am not going to allow the Trump campaign to funnel their questions through Fox News and get me to respond to that."

There's your answer.

Time and again, teleprompter troubles have exposed the fact that Biden is just reading his lines in what his campaign pretends are real conversations with supporters, like Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

He's not even answering reporters' questions off the cuff: "Look, Venezuela topline message is . . ." he told an NBC Miami reporter — obviously just reading the talking points he was handed in advance. He's also given multiple interviews with his eyes down, clearly relying on prepared notes in his lap.

This simply is not the Joe Biden of decades past, who might put his foot in his mouth but never needed a script to say what he thinks. If he can no longer answer even softball questions without the aid of his overseers, who will really be calling the shots if he wins the White House?

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A new audio tape released this morning between then Vice President Joe Biden and the former President Poroshenko in Ukraine shows Biden talking down the competence of the incoming Trump administration and declaring he will 'stay involved' in what is going on in Ukraine after the inauguration.

In the second tape, Biden calls Trump 'the dog who caught the car', who has no idea of what to do, and Biden and Poroshenko have 'a real chance of making him a hero'. In other words, damaging the incoming administration and making them look bad.

Much evidence has come out over the last year that the real collusion in the U.S. 2016 presidential election was between the Clinton campaign/Obama admin/Biden/DNC/Deep State. These tapes were recorded after Ukraine released the famous 'black ledger' which allegedly showed then Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort taking 'off the books' illegal payments. The ledger was later shown to be fabricated after the Mueller investigation was over.

The third tape shows Biden discussing getting Poroshenko's children into University of Pennsylvania, as payback for helping the Obama Administration in their Ukrainian anti-Trump endeavors.

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