Posted on 12/17/2023 6:11:17 AM PST by lowbridge
President Biden on Wednesday ripped House Republicans for formalizing an impeachment inquiry against him, bemoaning that GOP lawmakers are wasting time on a “baseless political stunt” rather than focusing on what matters to most Americans.
“I wake up every day focused on the issues facing the American people – real issues that impact their lives, and the strength and security of our country and the world. Unfortunately, House Republicans are not joining me,” Biden said in a lengthy statement issued minutes after the House voted along party lines to formalize the inquiry.
“Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’ lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies,” Biden continued. “Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.”
“The American people deserve better,” Biden added. “I know what I am going to remain focused on. I would invite Republicans in Congress to join me.”
Biden drew a sharp comparison between the actions of House Republicans and his own work in recent days. He cited his Tuesday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to push for additional funding for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, his focus on Israel’s fight with Hamas and his work to address the economy and find a compromise on border policy.
“There is a lot of work to be done,” Biden said. “But after wasting weeks trying to find a new Speaker of the House and having to expel their own members, Republicans in Congress are leaving for a month without doing anything to address these pressing challenges.”
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I wonder who the real author is.
Probably a lie.
Russia Collusion was baseless. You all went ahead with it anyway.
Joe said as he stuffed more one hundred dollar bills from China in his pockets.
Every word out of Joe’s trashmouth is a lie, except when he says, “I’m going get in trouble.”
And let’s not forget the 2016 Russian Collusion smear, cooked up and financed by Hillary.
BACKSTORY Ukraine Tried to Tip the 2016 Trump/Hillary Election in Clinton’s Favor
Evidence reveals Ukraine intervened to tilt the election in favor of its own national interests
observer.com, By Michael Sainato, 01/12/17
EDITED—Politico reported the Ukrainian Government dedicatedly worked to aid Hillary Clinton’s
2016 presidential bid. The actions taken by Ukranian government officials included
<><>disseminating false documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>first announcing they were investigating the matter,
<><>then nervously backing away after Trump defeated Hillary
<><>helping Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
The supposedly incriminating government documents Ukraine brought forth implicated Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who once worked as an adviser for now-ousted Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych.
However, the concerns that the Ukranian documents raised weren’t over any quasi-Russian ties the partisan MSM rigorously reported, pushing this narrative 24/7. Rather, the dubious documents raised question about “declared income” that only the Ukraine government was ostensibly privy to WRT Manafort.
The Podesta Group, a notorious lobbying firm co-founded by Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta, also conducted work for the Ukranian president Yanukovych but was studiously ignored. The Ukranian narrative not only painted Trump as pro-Russian, but also provided the Clinton campaign with a wholly invented “Trump smear campaign” which helpfully reaffirmed Ukraine’s stance “against Russia” and which earned Ukraine billions in US tax dollars.
It was in Ukraine’s best interest to tilt the election in support of Clinton, b/c she strongly advocated for providing Ukraine with billions of US tax dollars in military aid and financial support in order “to fight” Russian separatists then-operating in the Ukraine. Which presents the more recent US financed “Russian invasion of Ukraine” in an entirely new light.
Politico noted that Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American working as a consultant for DNC, met with top Ukrainian Officials in Washington D.C. about “forcing” Manafort’s resignation with the goal of cementing the Ukraine/Hillary narrative that Trump was “connected” to Russia.
Manafort was subsequently jailed and slapped into solitary confinement due to Ukranian efforts.
Both Ukranians, Chalupa, and her sister Andrea, have strongly pushed the anti-Russian narrative on social media.
Shockingly, the Ukranian sisters also advocated that the state electors of “the US electoral college defect from Trump.” The Chalupas’ outrageous elector gambit was ignored but Trump was said to have an “elector scheme.”
The report added, “Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the Trump/Hillary 2016 race strains diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.”
In addition to the Chalupas, the co-founder and CTO of Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that the DNC hired to investigate the alleged hacks, Dmitri Alperovitch, also serves as a senior fellow to the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, which is an openly anti-Russian organization.
The Atlantic Council is funded by Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who is one of the most prolific donors to the Clinton Foundation. The DNC denied multiple requests from the FBI to access their servers, effectively forcing the FBI to rely on CrowdStrike’s assessment of the hacks.
The Ukranian-centered Atlantic Council has propagated anti-Russian sentiment and advocated for bolstering NATO forces in anticipation of a Ukranian military conflict with Russia long before Wikileaks released emails from the DNC and Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta.
In 2013, the Atlantic Council awarded Hillary Clinton its Distinguished International Leadership Award. In 2014, the Ukranian-biased Atlantic Council hosted one of several events with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who took over after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych’s 2014 removal.
In August 2015, Politico was apparently cued to report that “Donald Trump’s favorable rhetoric to Russia was concerning to Ukraine.” The article stated, “Russia wants Trump for U.S. president; Ukraine is terrified by Trump and prefers Hillary Clinton.”
In response to their preferred candidate losing the election, Ukrainian officials were now scrambling to revert from their lobbying for Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
<><>Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko rushed to sign a $50,000-a-month contract with a US lobbying firm to set up meetings with US officials in the new Trump administration.
<><>Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who paid Hillary to come to Ukraine for a speech, now sang a different tune and wrote an WSJ op-ed Dec 29 in which he argued that Ukraine needs “to make compromises” to establish peace with Russia.
<><>Post-election, Ukranian Pinchuk donated to Trump’s charity to try to gain the same favor and access that his donations to the “Clinton Foundation” afforded him.
<><>“The sole reason the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has reached out to President-elect Trump—as well as other world leaders—has been to promote strengthened and enduring ties between Ukraine and the West,” a spokeswoman for the Pinchuk foundation told ABC News with a straight face.
While past elections in Ukraine have been viewed as proxy battles between the US and Russia, it appears that the 2016 US presidential election faced influence from Ukraine—a beneficiary of billions of US tax dollars—attempting to influence an election outcome biased for Ukraine’s national interests, and its hungering after US foreign aid from 2016 up to and including the “Russian invasion, and into its 2023 beg-a-thons for US dollars.
Russia collusion AND Jan 6th...were both baseless...one might call them “stunts”.
As long as the media backs up this charade the idiot population will believe it
” He cited his Tuesday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to push for additional funding for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, his focus on Israel’s fight with Hamas and his work to address the economy and find a compromise on border policy.”
1). Meeting with Voldymr Zelensky - Giving tax dollars away to a corrupt nation and government where his crackhead son made millions. How about an audit of the billions Biden has already given Ukraine since the Russian invasion?
2). Israel and Hamas - Another giveaway of billions of US tax dollars to both sides of a conflict.
3). The economy - Choking the US business sector with regulations, climate change edicts, woke social justice mandates while creating the highest in inflation in 40 years through trillions of deficit spending with printed money.
4). Compromise on the boarder - What compromise? Do your job as president and strictly enforce the immigration laws on the books.
What matters most to Americans is for Biden to get out of the White House.
Jo Jo! You’re a friggin’ crook. Look up “baseless”. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
The POTATUS is right.
It IS a stunt.
If Congress were serious, they’d be going after the cabal that steals elections and installed the POTATUS.
If we don’t restore our republic, it doesn’t matter which Deep State stooge is president.
JB will not be impeached. The Republicans are spineless cowards.
Jo Jo! You should know. You’re the king of stunts, bubba.
“I wake up every day focused on the issues facing the American people – real issues that impact their lives, and the strength and security of our country and the world.”
Is this the BB?
The same impeachment inquiry he demanded they start, saying he'd only turn over additional documents under a formal inquiry becuase was under no obligation to turn over anything else.
And the lying liberal lamestream media conveniently leaves that fact out.
Yeah, a stunt. The Dems know all about impeachment stunts. They’ve developed it into an art form - kabuki theater!
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