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Biden clarifies previous statements about not testifying in Senate impeachment trial
The Hill ^ | 12 28 2019 | Rachel Frazin

Posted on 12/28/2019 9:45:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday clarified a prior statement that he would not comply with a Senate subpoena in President Trump's impeachment trial, saying that the matter concerns "Trump’s conduct, not mine."

"I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests," the former vice president said on Twitter.

"But I am just not going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony in the impeachment trial," he continued. "That is the point I was making yesterday and I reiterate: this impeachment is about Trump’s conduct, not mine."

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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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KEYWORDS: backtrack; biden; handsy; impeachment; kiddiediddler; perv; trump; whoops
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Translation: 'I'll be happy to testify as long as the questions are about Trump and not me and my son'.
1 posted on 12/28/2019 9:45:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Some subpoenas are more equal than others.

See article 2 of impeachment Obstruction of Congress where Democrats impeached Trump for not complying with congressional subpoenas.

In light of Biden’s remark, it isn’t an impeachable offense and should be summarily dismissed.


2 posted on 12/28/2019 9:53:06 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

Comply with a subpoena or go to jail, Joe!

That’s the law.


3 posted on 12/28/2019 9:53:12 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: yesthatjallen

Justice Roberts will decide if a Biden must testify.

Joe might be asked about the prosecutor firing discussed in the phone call.


4 posted on 12/28/2019 9:54:46 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

“I see that you’ve cleverly avoided my actual question in favor of an imaginary one involving President Trump.”


5 posted on 12/28/2019 9:55:26 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Meatspace

Democrats are above the law. We knew that already.

What’s the hullabaloo about Trump’s alleged contempt for congressional subpoenas all about? See my post above.


6 posted on 12/28/2019 9:55:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

So I am doing even worse things that the democrats impeached Trump for...


7 posted on 12/28/2019 9:56:02 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana

And Biden hasn’t even taken a Senate subpoena to court! What a maroon.


8 posted on 12/28/2019 9:57:48 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

...so I said to Joe, I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at Joe and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If you don’t testify in front of the Senate you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He he changed his story.


9 posted on 12/28/2019 9:57:54 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: yesthatjallen

I predict, in the next months we’re about to see yet another underscore about how truly conservative the senate members are. Whether they have any spine or are bought totally.


10 posted on 12/28/2019 9:59:13 AM PST by Bayard
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To: yesthatjallen

Joe is chasing his tail.


11 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:11 AM PST by ptsal ( Media & DNC word game. It wasn't spying, it was just surveillance.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Biden gives double talk a bad name.


12 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:16 AM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Trump gets impeached for asking Ukraine a question he wasn’t supposed to ask in the first place.

But if its been debunked as we have heard repeatedly from the Democrat media, why did the Democrats spend three months on it?

Geez.


13 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:19 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

Right, he now doesn’t have to comply with the orders of the body he served in for 36 years and then as head of that body for an additional 8.

But God forbid anybody defied HIS orders when HE was in the Senate!

Typical oligarch. Rules for thee, but not for me.


14 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:37 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: ptsal

Better his than someone else’s...


15 posted on 12/28/2019 10:03:02 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I knew that he would feeeeeeel the need to walk his idiotic boast back, but that was more of a stagger. And it begs more questions than it answers.

What a dolt!


16 posted on 12/28/2019 10:03:18 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: yesthatjallen

I meant what I think I said, or vice versa.


17 posted on 12/28/2019 10:05:00 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Bayard

RE:how conservative Republican senators are...

I suggest we’ll all be severely disappointed.


18 posted on 12/28/2019 10:05:10 AM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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To: rockrr

Democrat hypocrisy is up the wazoo. Trump is supposed to have complied but not Biden. Got it.


19 posted on 12/28/2019 10:05:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

Geebus the MSM are having a Field Day with this bozo...


20 posted on 12/28/2019 10:05:37 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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