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Lindsey Graham will oppose subpoena of Hunter Biden
The Hill ^ | January 24, 2020 | ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 01/24/2020 10:37:11 AM PST by maggief

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he will vote against a motion to subpoena Hunter Biden if a majority of colleagues agree next week that additional witnesses and documents need to be summoned for President Trump’s impeachment trial.

If Republican colleagues introduce a motion to subpoena former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Graham said “I vote against it.”

Graham’s opposition essentially kills the threat that Republicans have wielded in recent weeks that if Democrats win a motion to hear from additional witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, they will retaliate by subpoenaing the Bidens.

Republican lawmakers such as Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) have threatened to weaponize the debate over witnesses by forcing the Bidens into the impeachment spotlight.

Paul has argued that Trump’s defense team should be allowed to call whatever witnesses they want.

“The president gets to call anybody he thinks would be good for his defense, the prosecution can call who they want, but I don’t think we should selectively call witnesses that don't like the president,” Paul said last week.

Kennedy argued that Trump’s lawyers would likely want to cross-examine the Bidens.

“I feel pretty confident, though I don’t know it for a fact, that the defense team is going to want to call its witnesses, including but not limited to the Bidens, [and] as a fact witness the whistleblower,” he said.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has also opened the door to subpoenaing Hunter Biden.

“When you get to that issue, I can’t imagine that only the witnesses that our Democratic colleagues would want to call would be called,” he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; fakenews; hunterbiden; johnbolton; lindseygraham; southcarolina; thehill; thehillary; theshill
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“I don’t want to call Hunter Biden. I don’t want to call Joe Biden. I want someone to look at this when this is done,” he said Friday.

“I don’t think it’s wrong for us to look at the Biden connection in the Ukraine, the $3 million given to the vice president’s son by the most corrupt company in the Ukraine,” he added.

But Graham said he’s going to oppose subpoenas for them because “this needs to end,” referring to the impeachment trial.

“To my Republican friends, you may be upset about what happened in the Ukraine with the Bidens but this is not the venue to litigate that,” he said.

He believes it would be more appropriate for a special investigator such as former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who investigated Trump, or someone of his nonpartisan stature to do so.

1 posted on 01/24/2020 10:37:11 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

When the going gets tough, Lindsey Graham folds....nothing like a little pressure to get him to fold like a lawn chair


2 posted on 01/24/2020 10:39:26 AM PST by srmanuel
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Why has he been lying on Hannity about supporting subpoenas?


3 posted on 01/24/2020 10:40:25 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: maggief

Graham is up to his neck in corruption while simultaneously being so deep in the closet he’s finding Christmas presents from before McCain’s brain did us all a solid.


4 posted on 01/24/2020 10:41:12 AM PST by TarasBulbous
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To: maggief

Whatever the Clintons had on him 25 years ago is still being held over his head . . . just retire numb nuts.


5 posted on 01/24/2020 10:41:13 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: srmanuel

Yep.

they better vote for no witnesses and just get THIS DAMN NONSENSE over with!


6 posted on 01/24/2020 10:41:28 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: srmanuel

Linda is constantly on Hannity. Next week he is going to have a hearing and get to the bottom of it.. Oh, there will be serious investigations.

And then NOTHING.

Repeat as needed.

No way he will open up the corruption that will expose hi and all the uniparty crooks.


7 posted on 01/24/2020 10:41:40 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: maggief

Ah, piss off, Lindsey.

Betray our president and hide the corruption of Joe Biden at your own peril.


8 posted on 01/24/2020 10:41:52 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: maggief

why say this now?

but anyway, the so called whistleblower is the only witness the President needs.


9 posted on 01/24/2020 10:42:01 AM PST by edwinland
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To: srmanuel

I support Lindsey on this, not the right way to provide the depth and breadth of investigation the Biden situation calls for. Post this farce it will haunt the Bidens for the rest of their lives and provide NO insight into what Trump and the team has on them and their fellow travelers


10 posted on 01/24/2020 10:42:52 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: maggief

Huh? This impeachment is all about the Biden connection to the Ukraine.


11 posted on 01/24/2020 10:43:06 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Lying is what Lindsay does. That is about all he does. The folks in South Carolina have to be embarrassed.


12 posted on 01/24/2020 10:43:11 AM PST by Old Man From WV
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To: maggief

US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, US senators Amy Klobuchar and John McCain, Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and US senator Lindsey Graham (left to right at center) pose for a photograph with Ukrainian servicemen. (1 Jan 2017 )

13 posted on 01/24/2020 10:43:28 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

This is a gross enough distortion of what Graham actually said that it fully qualifies as “fake news”.


14 posted on 01/24/2020 10:45:07 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: srmanuel

If they subpoena either Hunter or Joe, or both, it will be tied up in the courts for months. Graham is right, let them be investigated by a special investigator after the trial is over so they can end this farce next week. No witnesses period.


15 posted on 01/24/2020 10:45:09 AM PST by Russ (I)
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To: maggief

the defendant should be able to call any damn person they wish to make their case!


16 posted on 01/24/2020 10:45:18 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: chris37

Amazing how the market tells the story of how folks think Rs are going to vote next week about witnesses.

Or when an R makes an Incredibly Stupid statement like Graham just did.

That fake, fronting, freakish, feeble, fickle, feckless, flaky, floundering, faggot fraud.


17 posted on 01/24/2020 10:45:28 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: TakebackGOP

CAW...CAW...CAW! Er...wait, nothing to see here, move on.

Because he and McCain were deep state and it is all going to come out. Even Peter Schweizer said to Levin about his new book Profiles in Corruption it was on both sides.

Why else does Lindsey always crow about getting to the bottom of this stuff but never ever does anything!


18 posted on 01/24/2020 10:45:58 AM PST by BlueHorseShoe
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To: Russ

Also Hunter Biden is probably already dead. If he doesn’t show up in court next week that will be a strong sign he no longer walks the earth.


19 posted on 01/24/2020 10:46:05 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Russ

No if he was right he’d be saying let’s not call witnesses at all.

Or are we going back to being the gentleman losers because Ds are gonna call people that are gonna be tired up in courts for months also.

You’s thinking this is the days of bush when Rs were still terrified fruits.

That’s over. We’re OVER that.

Everyone on this board SHOULD be over that.


20 posted on 01/24/2020 10:47:13 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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