Posted on 03/07/2020 1:30:58 PM PST by Hojczyk
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is coming under scrutiny for a double standard with his apparent demand for closed-door witness testimony in a Senate investigation into Hunter Biden’s work for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
Romney supported open witness testimony in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, when he was the sole Republican senator to vote for additional witnesses — with no stipulation that interviews be closed.
Romney, a frequent foil to the president, now faces questions about whether he is inconsistent in his apparent demand for transparent government in the latter case but not the former.
Romney is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and had previously expressed concerns about the panel’s plans to issue subpoenas to obtain testimony in its Biden-Burisma investigation.
The committee is comprised of 8 Republicans and 6 Democrats, so a Romney vote with the Democrats would have resulted in a 7-7 tie blocking subpoenas.
After discussions with committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Romney signaled he would support the subpoenas on the condition that any Biden-related witnesses testify in a private or closed setting, “without a hearing or public spectacle,” according to Romney’s spokeswoman Liz Johnson.
With this latest wrinkle, Romney faces a renewal of the criticism for "flip-flopping" that has long dogged him, especially during his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
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The GOP is the most useless bunch of people..
They want Trump gone as much as the democrats...
They do nothing for Trump..zero
He’s trading it for cover since he had an adviser sitting on the same board. He’s knee deep this sh*t and knows that Trump knows it too. so will be interesting to see how it’s navigated.
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And just by sheer coincidence, Lindsey Graham is doing his Hearing on Spy-Gate in closed Sessions.
Protecting the Conspirators!
That’s all it is.
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The Republicans love Joe Biden.
And Ukraine $$$$ flows..
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Pierre Dilecto = the crap you throw against the wall that sticks.
Flip-flops and double standards????!!!
He wears bunny slippers and has no standards at all.
Romney got a deal that keeps he and his son out of the Ukraine investigation and in return agreed to issue a subpoena. Now, however, he's back to being a good Mormon Bishop who tells you what it takes to make something right only to raise the bar after you complete what you were told was required.
I'm not sure Barr & Co. were stupid enough to give them the sort of open and shut protection Romney must think he has to start dickering over whether testimony is going to be open or closed. Romney may find that this is another case of his alligator mouth writing a check his rat's ass can't cash.
as I said, JMHo
Willard got free plane ride to the Ukraine on the Joelita Express? Old Groper Young Hunter renamed it. They thought we wouldn’t notice. After all they were Father & Son of the year 2019. Prez material “in order to form a more perfect union”. Exactly what the FF were looking for. What a Joek.
Romney doesn’t want his own involvement in the ubiquitous foreign aid kickback schemes to be brought into view.
“He’s trading it for cover since he had an adviser sitting on the same board. He’s knee deep this sh*t and knows that Trump knows it too. so will be interesting to see how it’s navigated.”
Mitt Romney’s top adviser, Joseph Cofer Black, joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm, Burisma, while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board. Hunter Biden was taking a salary of $83,000 per month from Burisma, and was simultaneously engaged in a relationship with John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, and mobster Whitey Bulger’s nephew, in a private equity firm, that allegedly appeared to be laundering millions of dollars in foreign money from China & the Ukraine, through Latvia, and back to the US.
Romney had to know about his advisor taking a position on the Burisma board and who else was on the board or doing business with them of such notoriety. So he’s as dirty as the rest.
rwood
Romney’s guilty as sin.
Explain yourself to Utah!!!!!
The GOP is the most useless bunch of people..
They want Trump gone as much as the democrats...
They do nothing for Trump..zero
Why should they? We keep voting them back regardless.
Nothing will change until the GOP as an institution is held accountable by the GOP voters for aiding and abetting Mueller’s police state thuggery and the ongoing coup against a GOP POTUS.
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