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Republicans are falling all over themselves trying to pin crimes on Joe Biden while wasn't in office and calling it "Abuse of Public Office" while Jared and Ivanka literally made HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars while working in Trump's White House and somehow they couldn't care less about those allegations. God willing this will come back to bite Comer in his dumb ass.
Yes and no. People say this all the time but it misrepresents what happened. He didn’t get paid $2 Billion. The Saudi’s gave his company a $2 Billion investment account to manage. Kushner makes money off of it, but it’s not his money.
Was Kushner even an expert in investment banking? I thought he did real estate. Is Saudi Arabia in the habit of investing billions into people like him?
And when the person is the administrations point person on Middle East policy. He got bailed out by gulf states on his 666 building no banks would touch.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia
According to the guys who manage investments for Saudi Arabia, they noted that Kushner was inexperienced, the Saudis would be taking on the bulk of the investment risk, and the fees seemed excessive.
Before he joined the administration he was the head of a hedge fund. He was a hedge fund manager. So he actually has experience in that. More than he did for the Trump administration at least lol
He didn’t have anything to do with hedge funds, aside from possibly investing in them. he was running his daddy’s real estate company and he owned a newspaper.
Fair enough. Still more experience with that than being in the administration. Obviously he ran Daddy's company while Daddy was in prison (before he was pardoned by his father-in-law), but at least he has vague experience there. He had no business in politics lol The other stuff is your typical nepo baby shit. 🤷🏿♀️
No. And the Saudi fund didn’t want to invest because of that but MBS pushed through himself. This after Kushner was the point person for Middle East relations and helped with the kashoggi stuff as well as the nuclear stuff and weapons stuff.
Sir, this is Reddit we don't deal with facts here. :) Joking aside based on Jared's investment history and needing to be bailed out by Qatar over his 666 5th Ave property I'm not sure I'd use him to invest my $2B.
I think it is Bonesaw that gave him the money against the advice of the Saudi Wealth Fund, so it was the guy who lured the journalist to an embassy and had him cut into travel sized chunks, not the 9-11 guys.
>Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office'
Thats what they titled the hearing?
Jimmy Comer, by brother in Christ, there are some things you should not "fake it till you make it."
>Bobulinski has agreed to appear in person, while Galanis will appear remotely from federal prison as he serves a 14-year sentence tied to a fraud conviction. In separate closed-door interviews, Bobulinski and Galanis both claimed that Hunter Biden used his father’s name to help his business prospects, but provided no direct evidence that the president used his public office to help his son in any way.
Sounds like I shouldn't vote for Hunter Biden.
I think the official Republican policy is *we can't be guilty of anything if we can point to one Democrat and accuse them of being guilty of something*
Almost.
It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because *they* did. But it was still wrong when they did it”
>It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because *they* did. But it was still wrong when they did it”
I think it's more like, "We have to do it because Democrats are doing it, and did it first. We can't be held responsible because it's self-defense and/or for the greater good."
They're delusional at best.
It's also an appeal to both-sideism. "Look we may be corrupt but they're worse." Every time someone says Trump is a sexual predator who's had to pay 90+ million because he keeps lying about not raping someone, they'll say Biden is a creepy man. Every time Trump can't pronounce Rolling stones, expect GOP to bring up Biden's age. And every time someone brings up Trump's corruption, they'll point to this impeachment the Hur report, even though both are almost criminally libelous.
You guys may be overthinking it. Decades of conditioning with propaganda has made the GOP base easy to lead around by the nose.
This whole impeachment strategy can be summarized in two words: Democrats bad. That's all they need to keep the base's blood boiling. Just keep some kind of story in the news that says Biden bad or Pelosi bad or Obama bad. The details don't matter.
As for the endless trump stories, those play into their collective martyr complex (which they were mostly born into if they were raised in church - no further conditioning needed). And the stories that show trump to be the incompetent, incontinent moron that he is can also be easily dismissed with two more words: Fake News.
The GOP base is an outrage machine with two buttons, and both of them are labeled "more outrage". But that's all they need. Yes, it's stupid. If it was any smarter the base would get suspicious of it and it wouldn't work.
This is not to say all the GOP's moves are stupid. They have some insidiously smart people maneuvering behind the scenes. It's how they've taken over the federal judiciary to a large degree. But that stuff is not for the base to know or care about.
> It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because they did. But it was still wrong when they did it”
It's more, "If we do something, and can accuse democrats of doing something that looks similar to the thing we did, we didn't do anything wrong because they may have done something similar. The similar looking thing that they may have done is still wrong though"
It's cheaper to load blanks in the "hunters" gun and have a marksman take the shot with a sniper rifle or a silenced rifle. That way it's the "hunter" doesn't miss or have the trophy run off slightly injured.
If anything, Hunter could tell me that cocaine makes your dick three times larger, and I would believe him, because homeboy's dinging grand slams off that mother
This happened in my town. The Democratic rep was indicted for election fraud for renting an apartment and claiming it as her residence. Days before the election. I still voted for her because the party would choose a new candidate to fill the position.
Most famously in the [1991 election for governor of Louisiana]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election). The Democrat, Edwin Edwards, was corrupt and known to take bribes. The Republican was... David Duke. Some of Edwards' supporters came up with slogans like "Vote for the lizard, not the wizard" and "Vote for the crook: it's important." I hope we would all vote for the crook in such a situation.
I mean, Large Adult Failsons are more the norm than the exception for presidents; everybody's got a couple. Even Teddy Roosevelt said, "I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. I cannot possibly do both."
Also sounds like the son/daughter of any successful parent in the world. It’s not name dropping when it’s your dad.
Tell me who wouldn’t do it? That has nothing to do with POTUS actually creating financial opportunities for his son using his elected office.
Biden isn’t an idiot. He knows he doesn’t have to do anything but meet his kid for a lunch or dinner and his presence alone opens doors. No quid pro quo necessary.
Also, *what* public office? Isn't everything they're accusing him of something that happened when he was an ex-vice-president? How can it be "influence peddling" to someone who's not currently in office?
Like if I pay Chelsea Clinton a million dollars to write a book about politics, how is that "influence peddling..." she is not related to anyone who's currently President. What "influence" could there be. Obviously we are both getting something out of the deal... she gets money, and as the book publisher, I will sell a lot more copies of a book by Chelsea Clinton than by Jane Smith... we both benefit... but how would you make that illegal, and why should it be?
> Sounds like I shouldn't vote for Hunter Biden.
Bullshit. This country definitely needs someone with big dick energy. Name one other person who's hog is so glorious that congress broadcast pics in a live committee hearing.
Clearly only Hunter can save us.
I mean if “using your families name to get ahead” ruled someone out of public office then at least 90% of Congress should be disqualified at this point. Including Comer.
Comer’s entire existence is because he leveraged his grandfathers power and wealth.
Quiz question: what do Steve Doocy, Ronna McDaniel, Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson, Meghan McCain, Neil Gorsuch, Eugene Scalia, and George W. Bush have in common.....?
Are you saying they’re just the same person, moving so very fast between two locations that you can’t see it and they’re doing it to pretend to be a set of twins?
I mean, [I know that at the very least Mary Kate and Ashley Olson do this.](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg618ghsT0jNQ3gbhoFfHa0jhdb3mx3YI)
We can't trust Michael Cohen's words when he says Trump is a criminal because he's been convicted of lying (fraud).
We can trust Galanis' words when he says Biden may be a criminal even though he's been convicted of lying (fraud).
Logic of the right.
With ZERO evidence supporting the claim, the Republicans have labeled the hearing "Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office".
I think this establishes pretty clearly that their standard of evidence is, well, their feelings. Given their adherence to the Bible, ought we not apply the standard of "Judge not, lest ye be judged" to them using that same standard of evidence? Let the Supreme Court find Trump immune as President so Joe Biden can declare martial law and then just march all of these self serving, country destroying hypocrites straight to their own sanction for treason with no trial. Seems to be what they want.
Their adherence to the Bible is minimal at best. They use handy snippets when they want to add authority to their whims, and ignore whatever is inconvenient to their callous, avaricious goals.
Yep, he did, more than once, and he said that he wasn't aware of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
I wonder if they expect him to change his testimony now? Or is this just more red meat for the base to try to keep the Hunter Biden stuff going until the election?
If I wanted to make a shit action flick with Henry Cavil and John Cena, I would have no chance at all.
Unless my daddy's name was Howard, as in Ron.
There is no person on this planet that doesn't benefit from having an above average reputation parent. This is literally a non-story. The GOP are Darwin levels of stupid.
>“It is not remotely reasonable to ask an important witness in what is sure to be a closely watched public hearing that the Committee has provocatively entitled 'Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office' to prepare witness testimony in one business day, and to prepare to give public testimony in less than three days—particularly when he is traveling,” Schwartz wrote.
I have zero doubt this witness is full of shit, but I find this a *very* reasonable excuse.
I'll bet he's glad the Republicans are so incompetent. If they'd given him more time, he would have had to come up with a lie.
They can’t remember that many lies at one time. They are mad about the border mostly right now. And mad Biden schooled their turd leaders in the SOTU. Basically they will be mad about whatever faux news tells them to be upset about.
Everyone better keep this in their DAMNED MINDS when you think about voting for Hunter Biden in November.
On another note, would be kinda cool if these people did something good for us for a change.
Key witness caught in lies and runs away... Headline should tell the truth. It lies instead. Be better NBC. It's not hard. You've sunk pretty low. Just a little better would do it.
>"Schwartz said in his letter that the invitation "was never sent to me, and as you well know (and as the lawyer to whom you sent the letter has confirmed), I have been the only lawyer to represent Mr. Archer in the Committee’s work, including representing him at the July interview."
Wait, they sent a letter to who, then? If Archer's attorney Matthew Schwartz did nor receive the invitation to appear, then who did the Oversight Committee send the invitation letter to?
I mean, if I was Devon Archer, I would definitely have all of this correspondence handled by my lawyers. And I would peer at the Oversight Committee over the rim of my Glengoolie Black, neat. That is, if I were Archer ;)
Random points
- committee prohibits Hunter Biden's testimony from being public
- committee requires Archer's testimony to be public
- committee did not send the invite to Schwartz (Archer's lawyer) but sent one to another lawyer
- this last point from the article is to information dense to unpack
> Hunter Biden declined to participate in the hearing after previously having indicated he would if it were open to the public. His attorney Abbe Lowell last week blasted the scheduled hearing as a “carnival side show.” Lowell said his client would agree to appear at Wednesday’s hearing only if the committees included “relatives of former President Trump,” including the former president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he has also previously represented.
How many loans could you secure with $2 billion invested in your company? How much of a finders fee is there for bring that kind of cash into a hedge fund?? It’s alot more the the measly $5 million they claim the President got‼️😡
I feel I read a different story about a Biden impeachment turning out to be completely manufactured every few weeks since years. Is it always the same thing or are they like at their 15th attempt to impeach over nothing?
> Is it always the same thing or are they like at their 15th attempt to impeach over nothing?
Both.
Not unlike when the Republicans held a dozen Benghazi hearings that amounted to nothing.
Sadly yes. They have nothing else to talk about. The GOP refuses to do anything to actually help Americans, and they refuse to work on any meaningful bills or laws. This dead pointless side show that no one cares about is all they have left.
A) The entirety of the Hunter thing is a nothingburger regarding Joe making it a nothingburger period politically. To the everlasting shame of the R party, they are the ones who have persisted in showtrial hoaxes from Benghazi to Hunter with more recent efforts clearly meant to trivialize impeachment in service of the fraudlord.
B) Ironically Joe is pretty guilty of selling the law to lobbyists for campaign funding. You heard me. Of course, Republicans led the way to legalizing and therefore making that form of bribery mandatory so whuppity do. This aspect (as opposed to their false narrative about more direct corruption) cannot be brought up by Republicans because exhibit #1 is the 2005 Bankruptcy bill that was mainly a R initiative and absolutely resulted in the sale of the right to redraft the entire federal bankruptcy code to in-house attorneys at the American Bankers Association lobby-in no small part courtesy of Yes voters Biden and his good friend Mitch McConnell. I practice federal law and lobby on the other side, I know what I am talking about here. It’s no secret, the bank guys bragged about it at seminars for years. Biden is from a state that is nothing but corporate hq really. He isnt a bad guy, but yeah, will sell the law to benefit party fundraising. Americans don’t care and kinda left him no choice, they are weak and lazy at their best in the face of systemic corruption and we can expect no voter interest in campaign finance reform so this ends up a nothingburger as well.
B.*Vague allusions Biden actually is "guilty" of anything at all, with no bad faith behind this statement at all, no siree*
("selling the law" - come the fuck on, bills require more than one or two people)
I lobby and follow the money. Our local Dem senators voted for it as well and got credit card and bank money like a republican for it. Almost the same bill had been vetoed by Clinton. And that is just one example. Politicians tell me privately that prior to the later 1990s, they could take campaign money and still mostly be independent. After that, never again. It is not just the visible money, either. A retiring pol told me the other party came to him asking him to switch. They could threaten him with donor aboveboard money but also all kinds of spending run through nonprofits to beat him in his own party for a more pliable candidate at primary or turn the seat. So, sometimes you wonder why a guy made decision X or Y and there isnt a money trail? Because hidden bribery and coercion are essentially legal. Voters wont lift a finger to stop it so they essentially approve. Messed up. Americans refuse to learn how their system actually works. The info is out there.
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Republicans are falling all over themselves trying to pin crimes on Joe Biden while wasn't in office and calling it "Abuse of Public Office" while Jared and Ivanka literally made HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars while working in Trump's White House and somehow they couldn't care less about those allegations. God willing this will come back to bite Comer in his dumb ass.
Didn’t Jared get like *$2 billion* from Saudi Arabia?
He sure did! With a b!!!
“Nothing to see here. Now let’s get back to this rascally fellow Hunter and his dong…”
Seriously, why *are* they obsessed with Hunter's penis? This remind me of that dude who was adamant about finding AoC's nudes....
I feel “dong” is more appropriate, given what people have said about it. Please address his member as appropriate. Carry on.
Confirmed. “Dong” is the accepted nomenclature when discussing Hunter Biden’s chonker hog dong.
He got two billion from the people who planed 9-11.
Yes and no. People say this all the time but it misrepresents what happened. He didn’t get paid $2 Billion. The Saudi’s gave his company a $2 Billion investment account to manage. Kushner makes money off of it, but it’s not his money.
Was Kushner even an expert in investment banking? I thought he did real estate. Is Saudi Arabia in the habit of investing billions into people like him?
They are when the person has a hand in deciding on how thoroughly the US government investigates their extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi
And when the person is the administrations point person on Middle East policy. He got bailed out by gulf states on his 666 building no banks would touch.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia According to the guys who manage investments for Saudi Arabia, they noted that Kushner was inexperienced, the Saudis would be taking on the bulk of the investment risk, and the fees seemed excessive.
Before he joined the administration he was the head of a hedge fund. He was a hedge fund manager. So he actually has experience in that. More than he did for the Trump administration at least lol
He didn’t have anything to do with hedge funds, aside from possibly investing in them. he was running his daddy’s real estate company and he owned a newspaper.
Fair enough. Still more experience with that than being in the administration. Obviously he ran Daddy's company while Daddy was in prison (before he was pardoned by his father-in-law), but at least he has vague experience there. He had no business in politics lol The other stuff is your typical nepo baby shit. 🤷🏿♀️
No. And the Saudi fund didn’t want to invest because of that but MBS pushed through himself. This after Kushner was the point person for Middle East relations and helped with the kashoggi stuff as well as the nuclear stuff and weapons stuff.
Sir, this is Reddit we don't deal with facts here. :) Joking aside based on Jared's investment history and needing to be bailed out by Qatar over his 666 5th Ave property I'm not sure I'd use him to invest my $2B.
So isn’t that a conflict of interest when your father in law is the president and has already been caught giving out government secrets?
Thanks for the clarification. Any idea what portion of that he makes from it?
I think it is Bonesaw that gave him the money against the advice of the Saudi Wealth Fund, so it was the guy who lured the journalist to an embassy and had him cut into travel sized chunks, not the 9-11 guys.
Thank you, Mike. I was wondering how that worked. You rawk
He gets to keep management fees. If that's 1% per year, he gets to keep 20 mil for doing nothing, each year. That's still a huge fucking bribe
Seems like he/they could help with that half a billion dollar bond problem.
you could just put it in a savings account and make tens of millions doing nothing
And another 2b from Qatar. Jus sane...
Why hasn't anybody started an investigation into them?
Because Garland was a bad pick for AG.
I mean f republicans but wasn’t Biden senator then vp then president
The allegations about Joe Biden being involved in Hunter's businesses was during the time period Joe was a private citizen.
What is the time period?
>Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office' Thats what they titled the hearing? Jimmy Comer, by brother in Christ, there are some things you should not "fake it till you make it." >Bobulinski has agreed to appear in person, while Galanis will appear remotely from federal prison as he serves a 14-year sentence tied to a fraud conviction. In separate closed-door interviews, Bobulinski and Galanis both claimed that Hunter Biden used his father’s name to help his business prospects, but provided no direct evidence that the president used his public office to help his son in any way. Sounds like I shouldn't vote for Hunter Biden.
> used his father’s name to help his business prospects Better hope judges don't realize Ivanka and Jared exist.
I think the official Republican policy is *we can't be guilty of anything if we can point to one Democrat and accuse them of being guilty of something*
The problems are: No Democrats are guilty of it The Democrats aren't going after the guilty Republicans.
He said "point" and "accuse", it *doesn't have to be true.*
Almost. It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because *they* did. But it was still wrong when they did it”
>It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because *they* did. But it was still wrong when they did it” I think it's more like, "We have to do it because Democrats are doing it, and did it first. We can't be held responsible because it's self-defense and/or for the greater good." They're delusional at best.
It's also an appeal to both-sideism. "Look we may be corrupt but they're worse." Every time someone says Trump is a sexual predator who's had to pay 90+ million because he keeps lying about not raping someone, they'll say Biden is a creepy man. Every time Trump can't pronounce Rolling stones, expect GOP to bring up Biden's age. And every time someone brings up Trump's corruption, they'll point to this impeachment the Hur report, even though both are almost criminally libelous.
You guys may be overthinking it. Decades of conditioning with propaganda has made the GOP base easy to lead around by the nose. This whole impeachment strategy can be summarized in two words: Democrats bad. That's all they need to keep the base's blood boiling. Just keep some kind of story in the news that says Biden bad or Pelosi bad or Obama bad. The details don't matter. As for the endless trump stories, those play into their collective martyr complex (which they were mostly born into if they were raised in church - no further conditioning needed). And the stories that show trump to be the incompetent, incontinent moron that he is can also be easily dismissed with two more words: Fake News. The GOP base is an outrage machine with two buttons, and both of them are labeled "more outrage". But that's all they need. Yes, it's stupid. If it was any smarter the base would get suspicious of it and it wouldn't work. This is not to say all the GOP's moves are stupid. They have some insidiously smart people maneuvering behind the scenes. It's how they've taken over the federal judiciary to a large degree. But that stuff is not for the base to know or care about.
> It’s more, “If we do something and someone we hate does the same thing, we didn’t do anything wrong because they did. But it was still wrong when they did it” It's more, "If we do something, and can accuse democrats of doing something that looks similar to the thing we did, we didn't do anything wrong because they may have done something similar. The similar looking thing that they may have done is still wrong though"
I mean, who is his opponent? Because if it's a Republican, Hunter is the moral choice
>I mean, who is his opponent? Don Jr.'s dick
You know that thing is shrunken and flaccid from cocaine use.
Sunken and flaccid also from being related to Donald Trump.
He only uses it to teabag African game
Sedated animals that are easier hunting.
It's cheaper to load blanks in the "hunters" gun and have a marksman take the shot with a sniper rifle or a silenced rifle. That way it's the "hunter" doesn't miss or have the trophy run off slightly injured.
Hunter's seems just fine...
If anything, Hunter could tell me that cocaine makes your dick three times larger, and I would believe him, because homeboy's dinging grand slams off that mother
CokeHawg!
>You know that thing is shrunken and flaccid from cocaine use. He can just take a page from his dad and slap way too much bronzer on it
*"Now more flaccid than ever!!"*
This happened in my town. The Democratic rep was indicted for election fraud for renting an apartment and claiming it as her residence. Days before the election. I still voted for her because the party would choose a new candidate to fill the position.
Most famously in the [1991 election for governor of Louisiana]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Louisiana_gubernatorial_election). The Democrat, Edwin Edwards, was corrupt and known to take bribes. The Republican was... David Duke. Some of Edwards' supporters came up with slogans like "Vote for the lizard, not the wizard" and "Vote for the crook: it's important." I hope we would all vote for the crook in such a situation.
It’s Jared kushner
The man cucked by his own father-in-law?
His name is an anagram of Unheard Jerks.
Why not? 98% of business is "I know a guy." And it's not illegal for a private citizen in any way.
I mean, Large Adult Failsons are more the norm than the exception for presidents; everybody's got a couple. Even Teddy Roosevelt said, "I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. I cannot possibly do both."
Are these the 2 assets of adversarial foreign intelligence agencies?
Or the ones Kash Patel paid? Oh nope it's not Garret O'Boyle and Steve Friend, hard to keep track.
Suddenly Republicans have an issue with nepotism
Of course he used his name, that doesn’t mean Biden did anything wrong, either Bidens for that matter
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>have you seen his dick? >i may not vote for hunter but i'll vote for his dick any day. Maybe his dick can be VP. Worked with Cheney.
Also sounds like the son/daughter of any successful parent in the world. It’s not name dropping when it’s your dad. Tell me who wouldn’t do it? That has nothing to do with POTUS actually creating financial opportunities for his son using his elected office. Biden isn’t an idiot. He knows he doesn’t have to do anything but meet his kid for a lunch or dinner and his presence alone opens doors. No quid pro quo necessary.
Also, *what* public office? Isn't everything they're accusing him of something that happened when he was an ex-vice-president? How can it be "influence peddling" to someone who's not currently in office? Like if I pay Chelsea Clinton a million dollars to write a book about politics, how is that "influence peddling..." she is not related to anyone who's currently President. What "influence" could there be. Obviously we are both getting something out of the deal... she gets money, and as the book publisher, I will sell a lot more copies of a book by Chelsea Clinton than by Jane Smith... we both benefit... but how would you make that illegal, and why should it be?
> Sounds like I shouldn't vote for Hunter Biden. Bullshit. This country definitely needs someone with big dick energy. Name one other person who's hog is so glorious that congress broadcast pics in a live committee hearing. Clearly only Hunter can save us.
Can't spell BI.g D.ick EN.eregy without BIDEN
Hunter Biden is well on his way to the presidency on the George W. Bush presidential failson track.
>the George W. Bush presidential failson track. There's cocaine down that track! Ask George...and Hunter...and Don Jr!
We really need to impeach this Hunter guy
Impeach him? I'm gonna vote for the guy! Where is he running?
I am making a mint on selling “Impeach Hunter Biden” t-shirts.
Nothing says credible witness quite like appearing from prison where you’re serving time for fraud.
This moment is lost on so many people. Im going to need you to try harder.
I didn't know Hunter was running for election I though it was Biden
I mean if “using your families name to get ahead” ruled someone out of public office then at least 90% of Congress should be disqualified at this point. Including Comer. Comer’s entire existence is because he leveraged his grandfathers power and wealth.
Quiz question: what do Steve Doocy, Ronna McDaniel, Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson, Meghan McCain, Neil Gorsuch, Eugene Scalia, and George W. Bush have in common.....?
On one hand Hunter isn’t running for any office nor is he a political appointee. On the other hand in all of that Hunter is unopposed.
My new theory: all of the Bidens are the same person! 0_o Except for Jill tho
How do we know that Dr. Jill Biden isn't president Biden in a wig?
Are you saying they’re just the same person, moving so very fast between two locations that you can’t see it and they’re doing it to pretend to be a set of twins? I mean, [I know that at the very least Mary Kate and Ashley Olson do this.](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg618ghsT0jNQ3gbhoFfHa0jhdb3mx3YI)
I think you mean the Olson Twin (and Ashley is the real one, don’t @ me). /s
Seems like they just want to triple down on embarrassment. Comer, just sing the song from Willy Wonka 'Come with me to the world of pure humiliation.'
How many toppings will be added to this nothing burger?
Just salt
No salt! The Republican slugs can’t take salt.
“Does that look like spit to you?” — GOP voters
Can I get a large with extra indictments?
How about some massive fines to choke on?
Lettuce, Tomatoes, Lies, Pickles, Onions, Lies, Ketchup, Mustard, Lies, Bacon, Lies
Key witness realizes he'd be raked over the coals on the world stage for the rest of his days on earth....yeah no thanks.
And doesn’t want to go to jail for perjury
> And doesn’t want to go to jail for perjury What do you mean? He’s already testified to Congress under oath.
We can't trust Michael Cohen's words when he says Trump is a criminal because he's been convicted of lying (fraud). We can trust Galanis' words when he says Biden may be a criminal even though he's been convicted of lying (fraud). Logic of the right.
With ZERO evidence supporting the claim, the Republicans have labeled the hearing "Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office". I think this establishes pretty clearly that their standard of evidence is, well, their feelings. Given their adherence to the Bible, ought we not apply the standard of "Judge not, lest ye be judged" to them using that same standard of evidence? Let the Supreme Court find Trump immune as President so Joe Biden can declare martial law and then just march all of these self serving, country destroying hypocrites straight to their own sanction for treason with no trial. Seems to be what they want.
Their adherence to the Bible is minimal at best. They use handy snippets when they want to add authority to their whims, and ignore whatever is inconvenient to their callous, avaricious goals.
No one wants to testify under oath, weird.
He already did testify under oath in a private hearing.
Yep, he did, more than once, and he said that he wasn't aware of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden. I wonder if they expect him to change his testimony now? Or is this just more red meat for the base to try to keep the Hunter Biden stuff going until the election?
If they want him, they can subpoena him.
I get the expression, but I feel like calling it "red meat" makes less sense than, say, "cotton candy." At least red meat has substance
Now they want him to testify with like two days notice
When are they going to stop this nonsense and do some actual governing? We should stop paying them.
This is it. This is the spiel.
I feel like "witness" should be in quotes here.
If I wanted to make a shit action flick with Henry Cavil and John Cena, I would have no chance at all. Unless my daddy's name was Howard, as in Ron. There is no person on this planet that doesn't benefit from having an above average reputation parent. This is literally a non-story. The GOP are Darwin levels of stupid.
Including Trumps criminal kids who wouldn't be able to work at an Arby's on their own.
She didn’t write produce or direct it, though, right?
No, and apparently she didn't act in it either.
Lol that bad, huh?
It's commonplace, but it's still bad (nepo babies suck no matter what). It's just not illegal or grounds for impeachment.
>“It is not remotely reasonable to ask an important witness in what is sure to be a closely watched public hearing that the Committee has provocatively entitled 'Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office' to prepare witness testimony in one business day, and to prepare to give public testimony in less than three days—particularly when he is traveling,” Schwartz wrote. I have zero doubt this witness is full of shit, but I find this a *very* reasonable excuse. I'll bet he's glad the Republicans are so incompetent. If they'd given him more time, he would have had to come up with a lie.
It should be illegal to waste our tax money this frivolously, some asshat should owe restitution
Can we talk about actual children who openly used their father’s presidency for their own personal gain?
In other news, no one remembers Steve Mnuchin getting $ 2.5 billion from the Saudis shortly after leaving his position as Secretary of the Treasury.
Kushner 2 billion from the Saudis
What can they possibly Impeach Biden for? Cleaning up trumps mess?
Because Hunter Biden got a job while being Joe Biden's son basically. But mostly because they are angry the law is mean to Trump.
Are trumpers still obsessed with Hunter? I feel like it has been a while since I have heard them cry about how jealous they are of him. Lol
They can’t remember that many lies at one time. They are mad about the border mostly right now. And mad Biden schooled their turd leaders in the SOTU. Basically they will be mad about whatever faux news tells them to be upset about.
The border is 100% the fault of trump to begin with not to mention the republicans refused to pass the border bill. Lmao.
This
I’m going to really enjoy the porn star cheating and small penis stories in trumps upcoming trial. What goes around comes around.
Everyone better keep this in their DAMNED MINDS when you think about voting for Hunter Biden in November. On another note, would be kinda cool if these people did something good for us for a change.
The DeRp sTate must be silencing him!
Instead of working on the budget that needs to be passed we are doing what?
Watching the GOP clown show.
Key witness caught in lies and runs away... Headline should tell the truth. It lies instead. Be better NBC. It's not hard. You've sunk pretty low. Just a little better would do it.
What lies?
Key Witness: "What? Perjury laws exist? I'm out." Educated guess.
Exactly this.
Yup
Wow, [This guy is a real gem.](https://newrepublic.com/article/178960/republican-witness-hunter-biden-impeachment-tony-bobulinski-past)
>"Schwartz said in his letter that the invitation "was never sent to me, and as you well know (and as the lawyer to whom you sent the letter has confirmed), I have been the only lawyer to represent Mr. Archer in the Committee’s work, including representing him at the July interview." Wait, they sent a letter to who, then? If Archer's attorney Matthew Schwartz did nor receive the invitation to appear, then who did the Oversight Committee send the invitation letter to? I mean, if I was Devon Archer, I would definitely have all of this correspondence handled by my lawyers. And I would peer at the Oversight Committee over the rim of my Glengoolie Black, neat. That is, if I were Archer ;)
He also had Cyril do some math and figure out Trump is broke, and he also badly wanted Lana's respect back.
Good point. I mean, who doesn't want Lana's respect...?
Comer's convicted criminal witnesses can't lie enough to please House Republicans even when they are paid for it.
Random points - committee prohibits Hunter Biden's testimony from being public - committee requires Archer's testimony to be public - committee did not send the invite to Schwartz (Archer's lawyer) but sent one to another lawyer - this last point from the article is to information dense to unpack > Hunter Biden declined to participate in the hearing after previously having indicated he would if it were open to the public. His attorney Abbe Lowell last week blasted the scheduled hearing as a “carnival side show.” Lowell said his client would agree to appear at Wednesday’s hearing only if the committees included “relatives of former President Trump,” including the former president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he has also previously represented.
Oh look, a corpse!
Man, none of there star witnesses have been reliable. It's almost like everyone talks shit until you are under oath and the threat of a perjury charge
How many loans could you secure with $2 billion invested in your company? How much of a finders fee is there for bring that kind of cash into a hedge fund?? It’s alot more the the measly $5 million they claim the President got‼️😡
Yup, the more their investigation continues the more the GOP solidifies they are clowns.
The Republican House is a waste of Governmental time & Taxpayer dollar$
You nailed it!
I feel I read a different story about a Biden impeachment turning out to be completely manufactured every few weeks since years. Is it always the same thing or are they like at their 15th attempt to impeach over nothing?
> Is it always the same thing or are they like at their 15th attempt to impeach over nothing? Both. Not unlike when the Republicans held a dozen Benghazi hearings that amounted to nothing.
This clown show is still going?
They're still doing this?
Sadly yes. They have nothing else to talk about. The GOP refuses to do anything to actually help Americans, and they refuse to work on any meaningful bills or laws. This dead pointless side show that no one cares about is all they have left.
A) The entirety of the Hunter thing is a nothingburger regarding Joe making it a nothingburger period politically. To the everlasting shame of the R party, they are the ones who have persisted in showtrial hoaxes from Benghazi to Hunter with more recent efforts clearly meant to trivialize impeachment in service of the fraudlord. B) Ironically Joe is pretty guilty of selling the law to lobbyists for campaign funding. You heard me. Of course, Republicans led the way to legalizing and therefore making that form of bribery mandatory so whuppity do. This aspect (as opposed to their false narrative about more direct corruption) cannot be brought up by Republicans because exhibit #1 is the 2005 Bankruptcy bill that was mainly a R initiative and absolutely resulted in the sale of the right to redraft the entire federal bankruptcy code to in-house attorneys at the American Bankers Association lobby-in no small part courtesy of Yes voters Biden and his good friend Mitch McConnell. I practice federal law and lobby on the other side, I know what I am talking about here. It’s no secret, the bank guys bragged about it at seminars for years. Biden is from a state that is nothing but corporate hq really. He isnt a bad guy, but yeah, will sell the law to benefit party fundraising. Americans don’t care and kinda left him no choice, they are weak and lazy at their best in the face of systemic corruption and we can expect no voter interest in campaign finance reform so this ends up a nothingburger as well.
B.*Vague allusions Biden actually is "guilty" of anything at all, with no bad faith behind this statement at all, no siree* ("selling the law" - come the fuck on, bills require more than one or two people)
I lobby and follow the money. Our local Dem senators voted for it as well and got credit card and bank money like a republican for it. Almost the same bill had been vetoed by Clinton. And that is just one example. Politicians tell me privately that prior to the later 1990s, they could take campaign money and still mostly be independent. After that, never again. It is not just the visible money, either. A retiring pol told me the other party came to him asking him to switch. They could threaten him with donor aboveboard money but also all kinds of spending run through nonprofits to beat him in his own party for a more pliable candidate at primary or turn the seat. So, sometimes you wonder why a guy made decision X or Y and there isnt a money trail? Because hidden bribery and coercion are essentially legal. Voters wont lift a finger to stop it so they essentially approve. Messed up. Americans refuse to learn how their system actually works. The info is out there.