James Comer’s Biden Impeachment Crusade Finally Ends With a Whimper
https://newrepublic.com/post/182301/james-comer-biden-impeachment-ends-criminal
James Comer’s Biden Impeachment Crusade Finally Ends With a Whimper
https://newrepublic.com/post/182301/james-comer-biden-impeachment-ends-criminal
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The republicans can’t even lie correctly anymore.
Finds nothing, send criminal referral to DoJ for nothing, then complain loudly about Biden’s DoJ when it doesn’t pursue garbage referrals. Plain as day if your aren’t in a cult 😂
he is really bad at this. its almost like he never had any evidence.
Really more of a slimy wet fart than a whimper tbh
So their referrals amount to “We have no evidence that they lied about anything, but since they didn’t tell us what we wanted to hear we are accusing James and Hunter Biden of making false statements.”
Nice work, Comer Pyle. I’ll miss Moscowitz clowning you.
That’s one confused look on his face. All bluster and no substance. House Republicans shouldn’t be left alone too long lest they hurt themselves.
So they “found” that James and Hunter made false statements about a meeting with Joe Biden at the Beverly Hills Hotel according to references and text messages leading up to the event….okay. Let’s see that. Push that as your “smoking gun.” If there’s evidence there, present it. It could be true that they falsified statements. However, BELIEVING they did is not. Show the text messages that make Comer believe they’re lying.
Should be reprimanded for wasting time of doj
Once Comer realized Jim Jordan was all in, he should have ended it then.
So let’s recap:
Kevin McCarthy began the impeachment inquiry unilaterally back in September of last year in hopes of distracting from Trump’s legal woes and appeasing the Freedom Caucus and saving his job before the debt ceiling debacle.
Republicans removed him anyway.
The House finally formalized the impeachment inquiry with a vote, predicated on a FD-1023 form (basically a tip to the FBI with accusations of a “bribery” scheme).
All sorts of idiotic claims were made in the meantime: A “mysterious” loan of a few thousand dollars. (It was for a truck.). A reimbursement to Biden’s family (completely normal and Comer did the same thing).
Their “star witness” Devin Archer testified that… Biden and Hunter had about ~20 calls over the course of a decade that amounted to “pleasantries” such as “talking about the weather” and Archer himself confirmed they did not discuss business.
But nevermind any of that – remember the FD-1023 form? The bribery scheme?
Turns out, [the informant made it all up](https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-fbi-confidential-human-source-felony-false) and was indicted by Trump’s own hand-picked prosecutor.
So to save face on one of the most embarrassing legislative efforts in U.S. history, they are going to refer charges to the DOJ on Biden’s son for making misleading statements in their testimony. (Note that Hunter Biden cooperated far more than Jim Jordan, the co-lead of the committee ever did with Congressional subpoenas.)
They sent these meaningless, symbolic referrals to the same DOJ.. that is already prosecuting Hunter Biden.
Bravo, Republicans. Bravo.
Launch an investigation without evidence, confident you’d find some skeletons. Because you and your party all have skeletons, you assume everyone does.
Republicans are so often disingenuous that it’s impossible to take them seriously anymore. The only people willing to detach from reality to that degree are desperate to support the underlying biases that necessitate their constant deceit.
They operate on the premise that truth is the narrative you can get away with, and that lies with legal letterhead stand as truth if unchecked. That’s the biggest issue with their corruption of scotus, there’s no conceivable check to their imbalance, and if they want to say “We’ve actually been a monarchy this whole time” and proceed to bestow the president with absolute immunity, who can stop them?
Humans have always believed wrong things and engaged in horrible actions to force a fake validity in the absence of fact. The courts were supposed to prevent this, and up until recently could be used to tear down falsehoods.
But that’s me bestowing the benefit of the doubt that they actually have conviction. The uglier truth is that they just use the convictions *of others* for personal gain and only believe in living better than everyone else. Please help deprogram your republican friends and family, we need them to improve justice for everyone.
Don’t worry, in a year when Biden wins re-election a NEW Biden Impeachment crusade will start!
They scream about political prosecutions, as they make them themselves.
These people are idiots.
republicans don’t care about school shootings. They don’t care about healthcare, homelessness, or food insecurity. republicans certainly don’t care about income inequality or climate change.
But they care about THIS bullshit.
republicans can’t lead.
I think Nelson’s “Ha-Ha!” is the appropriate response to this headline.
What a waste of time and money just to try and dilute the meaning of impeachment to soothe the ego of convicted felon Donald Trump
Has the GOP done anything *useful* lately? Addressed any real problems facing our nation? Or is it all just publicity seeking, staying in power longer nonsense?
I’m really surprised Republican voters are this dumb and haven’t caught on that Republicans have no solutions or ideas to help Americans.
All they have are accusations based on rumors they create. It’s a feedback loop.
They did it with Bill Clinton. Made accusations hoping they would find something. He was a sexual deviant so eventually he messed up and lied under oath about it. But remember the original accusations never stuck.
They character assassinated Hillary to make her unelectable. Her experience was actually worthy of the presidency but her personality was abrasive so it worked.
They tried it with Obama.
They are trying it with Biden.
Meanwhile, what solutions do they have for any of today’s problems??
More republican “work”. These buffoons haven’t done a goddamn thing in the last 8 years except “try to own the libs.” Disgusting, disgraceful, WASTEFUL behavior.
Wish we could take the tax payer dollars wasted by this effort out of their Congressional salary
People need to stop voting for republicans. They’ve had the majority for most of the last 40 years and look how shitty our country has been getting. Everything republican voters hate is being done by the republican party, but their voters are the product of one of the worst public education systems in the 1st world so I’m no surprised.
It’s so funny watching them complain about how these laws and checks and balances are being abused to persecute Trump, yet they are constantly trying to do that exact thing to Biden, but the laws actually prevent that sort of thing.
They talk and act like these processes can just happen at the drop of a hat and an innocent man can be impeached, convicted or even jailed just for his political beliefs. Yet when they try to do it, they demonstrate that it’s actually not how things work at all.
It’s like they expect congress and the judicial system to ignore real evidence when it comes to Trump, but when they need to persecute Biden, they seem to think that “trust me bro” and “come on, we all know there are crimes” to be sufficient evidence.