Posted on 04/22/2023 9:12:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Democrats are accusing the GOP of selectively using evidence to claim top government officials intentionally misled the public on the Hunter Biden laptop case to help then-candidate Joe Biden win the 2020 election.
GOP leaders on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, citing testimony from a former CIA deputy director that Blinken was the acting force behind the push to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. Democrats pushed back on those allegations, accusing Republicans of using “cherry-picked” excerpts to “sensationalize a three-year-old tabloid story.”
“To be clear, no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morrell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Democrats on the Judiciary Committee wrote in a statement.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) announced on Friday that their panels would be opening investigations into the matter, specifically focusing on a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that shrugged off the Hunter Biden allegations as false. The pair accused Biden’s campaign of playing a role in suppressing the story as a way to prevent voters from “making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election.”
However, Democrats blasted those allegations, pointing to excerpts of Morrell’s testimony that they say prove Blinken and other Biden officials had no part in burying the story.
“At no point during his interview did Mr. Morrell testify that Secretary Blinken directed or asked him to write any letters,” they wrote. “Instead, Mr. Morrell testified that Mr. Blinken sought his advice, as many others have.”
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Evidence is evidence, honkies.
Its sad that we have come to a point where we have no faith in the American justice system. I dare say that greater than 90% believe that there are two systems of justice, one for liberals and another for conservatives. Regardless of being attacked constantly with made up lies of corruption by demoncrats, President Trump had the country well on its way to becoming the great country is once was. All it took was a stolen election, and yes it was stolen despite claims that it wasn’t, and less than two years of Shadow President and Master Puppeteer George Soros to erase the positive gains by President Trump. Sure, Trump can come off a little rough but he is genuine and I prefer that over the fake smiles by professional politicians who have spent their lives learning how to make convincing campaign promises they have no intention of keeping.
From the party that thrives on cherry-picking.
lol that succinctly wraps it up
They certainly do repackage it. It is a useful utility for them, and it works. Dammit.
Nah.
This happens only in the Religion Forum.
Pick those cherries while they’re in season.
I have only expressly gone there a few times. I don’t care for what I see there.
When discourse is civil, it is very nice and informative. When not, it is unpleasant.
I see much the exact same dynamic in the Ukraine threads. I generally avoid them.
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