Posted on 12/28/2019 8:06:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After facing substantial criticism for his recent vow not to comply with any Senate subpoena during an impeachment trial, Joe Bidens now kind-of-sort-of backtracking on that vow.
"I want to clarify something I said yesterday," Biden tweeted on Saturday. "In my 40 years in public life, 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."
"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 Trumps conduct, not mine."
Except that wasn't the point he was trying to make. He said on multiple occasions that he would not comply with a subpoena, which sounds a lot like obstruction of Congress to me. Biden is trying to pretend there's no legitimate reason why he'd be called as a witness.
While he previously argued that if he testified it would be a distraction from Trump, now he's trying to say there's no "legal basis" for him to testify. "I am just not going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony in the impeachment trial," he said. "That is the point I was making yesterday and I reiterate: this impeachment is about Trumps conduct, not mine."
Except he's wrong. The issue at hand here is whether there was any justification for Trump to suggest Biden's conduct merits an investigation. It has already been established that Trump has every legal right to request the assistance of a foreign government in an investigation.
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joe,you are pushing 50 years in public office,c’mon man.
All Congressional subpoenas have the same legal basis, Joe Burisma.
If you’d like to say that Congressional subpoenas are garbage, just a joke, we might have something we can agree on. :)
Ain’t the first VP to claim, “No controlling legal authority.”
Keep talking Joe.
You have confessed to your crime in public.
Next comes the grand jury.
beat me to it.
A safe rule of thumb is that everything that Joe Biden says is 180 degrees removed from the truth.
Yyyyeahhhh. I don’t think targets of subpoenas get to decide their validity.
It is the right of a defendant to describe and support with evidence an alternate theory of the case.
Really joe? Billions of American taxpayer money disappeared in Ukraine,you and your family
are right in the middle of it,President Trump would be irresponsible for not investigating that.
If not for the corrupt media you would already have been indicted
We got the video , jack!
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