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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Agreed. They will make the corrupt Biden’s into victims.
“...I want someone to look at this when this is done,
Sure Lindsey, “someone” will get right on it.
Probably first thing right after they finish looking at the attempted coup engineered by Hillary and her fellow traveller cohorts in the CIA, NSA, State Dept. and FBI.
Oh, there might be a slight delay as they may or may not look into the sale of our URANIUM to a “hostile foreign power” engineered by Hillary also.
Then Lindsey I am sure you wanted someone to look into the sweetheart deal that obama and Hillary engineered deceiving Congress and the Port Authority in Port Canaveral Florida which granted a 35 year no bid contract to operate the ports container terminal to Gulftainer ran by Dr. Jafar. Dr. Jafar oversaw procurement operations for Iraqs vast nuclear, biological, and chemical WMD programs. Dr.Jafar was on the terrorist wanted list and has ties to the KGB and North Korea.
I suppose you also wanted someone to look into this too right Lindsey?
Has ANYTHING come from all this looking?
NO, it’s East Carolina.
Like he followed up with the hearings he promised after Kavanaugh?
Exactly. US Senate Judiciary Chairman Graham has had over 3 months to gather facts on Hunter Biden. Has he? Nope. That’s all you need to know right there. The GOP has no interest in supporting POTUS against the Deep State coupist assaults. Not now. Not ever.
Because he is as vile and corrupt and is probably neck deep in it.
“Why has he been lying on Hannity about supporting subpoenas?”
He’s a snake. (Snakes thrive in swamps, dontcha know?) Most roads will lead to McCain and, therefore, to Graham. He never does the right thing when the rubber hits the road.
What does Graham have to hide?
He has attacked Guiliani because he doesnt want to see what he has.
Without seeing it, he calls it Russian Propaganda
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Why did it always look like traitor McShame had acorns in his mouth?
No surprise here. The GOP is spineless and treacherous.
What are you hiding Grahmensty?
Were you in on the loop of the money laundered tax payer dollars that were funneled through your friend's son?
HAHA, never happen
There is also the fact that Joe Biden threaten him on TV. Lindsey always fashions himself as a hawk but this is like turning himself into a chicken sh*t.
The Senate GOP is violating their Oaths. Every single one of them, including Linda. To hell with the lot of them.
WELL no Hunter NO Bolton PERIOD, Grahamis up to his scummy little eyeballs in this Ukraine BS!!!
He is correct on this. Much to my disagreement, but the Senate is NOT the place to do the work that was supposed to be done in the House.
Linda wants to aggressively investigate this just like his gung ho investigation of the Kavanaugh smear. Linda is terrified that if Slo Joe goes down here, Biden will expose Grahams shady dealings in the Ukraine.
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