Posted on 01/24/2020 10:37:11 AM PST by maggief
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he will vote against a motion to subpoena Hunter Biden if a majority of colleagues agree next week that additional witnesses and documents need to be summoned for President Trumps impeachment trial.
If Republican colleagues introduce a motion to subpoena former Vice President Joe Bidens son, Graham said I vote against it.
Grahams opposition essentially kills the threat that Republicans have wielded in recent weeks that if Democrats win a motion to hear from additional witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, they will retaliate by subpoenaing the Bidens.
Republican lawmakers such as Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) have threatened to weaponize the debate over witnesses by forcing the Bidens into the impeachment spotlight.
Paul has argued that Trumps defense team should be allowed to call whatever witnesses they want.
The president gets to call anybody he thinks would be good for his defense, the prosecution can call who they want, but I dont think we should selectively call witnesses that don't like the president, Paul said last week.
Kennedy argued that Trumps lawyers would likely want to cross-examine the Bidens.
I feel pretty confident, though I dont know it for a fact, that the defense team is going to want to call its witnesses, including but not limited to the Bidens, [and] as a fact witness the whistleblower, he said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has also opened the door to subpoenaing Hunter Biden.
When you get to that issue, I cant imagine that only the witnesses that our Democratic colleagues would want to call would be called, he said.
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Trump is the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Justice.
In my opinion, when Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, Trump had a good faith suspicion that Hunter Biden had violated USA law.
This is Alexander Bolton, a DNC operative. One really needs to see if his reporting is true or taken out of context, which is what he usually does.
On this Graham is wrong. By subpoenaing Biden and sons, and potentially Schiff For Brains and even Vidman and Ambassador YankyourfootOffovitch, you can ask questions the just beg to be asked.
ALSO, does anyone know how many anti-tank weapons the Obama regime sent to the Ukraine between 2009 and 2016/Jan2017, as versus how many Trump sent from 1/20/17 to the present day?
Also, when was the heaviest fighting between the Ukrainian forces and Russian tanks - by year, then months? I’ll bet most of it occurred during Obie’s Marxist rule and he didn’t do a damned thing to help “our allies”.
I thought so. Alexander Bolton is a sock puppet for the DNC and a liar.
Which you never do, Senator.
Grahamnesty needs to be primaried before he gets the amnesty and permanent Democrat majority he has spent his career pursuing.
The only way they can get around not calling the witnesses that the democrats want is to request from Roberts that all witnesses that were denied by the democrats in the House Impeachment inquiry be allowed to testify (including the whistleblower and hunter biden.
Graham may be right that the impeachment has to end quickly. However, announcing that he will not support a subpoena for Biden is NOT how that gets done.
Threatening to subpoena Biden(s), Schiff, the whistle blower and anyone else the Democrats do not want on an open microphone is the way to get this shut down.
Graham demonstrates that he does not know how to negotiate with these people.
I just puked...
I agree with Lindsey G. for simple reason. It would create a negative for Trump. The attacks against Trump has attracted more support for him. Bringing Biden’s son into Trump’s fight might backfire. No need to chance it.
Sounds like the Dems have the goods on Little Linda! What and Who is BLACKMAILING you, honey??
Why would linda say this now, at this stage of the trial? Its like I said months ago, they will limit who Trump can call as a witness.
That was my thought, too. The only reason for Graham to gum flap about this is that the issue will never come up. He’s trying to signal to his “good friends” in Democrat party and Fake News how he would have voted.
When the going gets tough, Lindsey Graham folds....nothing like a little pressure to get him to fold like a lawn chair
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In other words he’s your typical Republican.
“Linda” is one of Wash D.C.’s best BULL$HIT artists.
All I think subpoenaing Biden, others does is delay Trump getting this farce behind him.
Just AnOTHER Trey Gowdy .ALL HAT and NO CATTLE!!
Graham is right, let them be investigated by a special investigator after the trial is over so they can end this farce next week.
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Its never going to happen. Biden is “family” to them.
DC doesn’t investigate and expose DC.
The whole place is corrupt.
Like he followed up with the hearings he promised after Kavanaugh?
He already said he loves Joe Biden.
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