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Biden 'Clarifies' Vow to Obstruct Congress, Claims 'No Legal Basis' to Testify About His Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine
PJ Media ^ | 12/28/2019 | Matt Margolis

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 Biden’s 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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; joebiden; obstruction; ukraine

The question that needs to be answered is whether the conduct of Joe Biden merits such an investigation.


1 posted on 12/28/2019 8:06:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

joe,you are pushing 50 years in public office,c’mon man.


2 posted on 12/28/2019 8:14:42 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: SeekAndFind

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. :)


3 posted on 12/28/2019 8:26:56 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ain’t the first VP to claim, “No controlling legal authority.”


4 posted on 12/28/2019 8:52:01 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep talking Joe.

You have confessed to your crime in public.

Next comes the grand jury.


5 posted on 12/28/2019 8:58:45 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Roccus

beat me to it.


6 posted on 12/28/2019 9:31:53 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A safe rule of thumb is that everything that Joe Biden says is 180 degrees removed from the truth.


7 posted on 12/28/2019 9:51:12 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Yyyyeahhhh. I don’t think targets of subpoenas get to decide their validity.


8 posted on 12/28/2019 9:59:18 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is the right of a defendant to describe and support with evidence an alternate theory of the case.


9 posted on 12/29/2019 3:15:06 AM PST by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


10 posted on 12/29/2019 3:59:58 AM PST by ballplayer (By)
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To: mdittmar

We got the video , jack!


11 posted on 12/29/2019 4:18:52 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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