Posted on 01/21/2020 4:36:00 PM PST by Libloather
Bernie Sanders canceled an Iowa rally scheduled for Wednesday. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bennet didn’t bother scheduling any campaign stops this week - they’re all stuck in the Senate for the foreseeable future due to the impeachment trial.
But even as four of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign rivals were pulled off the campaign trail this week to sit as silent jurors in Washington, he’s hardly got an advantage. While he largely has the Iowa stage to himself this week, the former vice president is playing a starring role in the impeachment saga along with his son, Hunter.
Just before the trial kicked off, his campaign launched a preemptive strike by issuing a memo demanding reporters refer to President Trump’s allegations against the Bidens as discredited conspiracy theory about their unrelated work in Ukraine.
“The clinical term for that is horseshit,” Andrew Bates, Biden’s rapid-response director, said in a YouTube video released Tuesday that wove in the history of the case with swear words. “It’s bullshit.”
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Newbie, carefully place the bong on the table and back away slowly.
Biden has a “rapid response director”? LOL. Why can’t Ole Joe do that himself? Because he can never spit it out?
Plugs also got Hunter on the board of Amtrak. Same experience in the RR industry. Nothing to see here.
Imagine if President Trump ordered the media how to report.
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