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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Agree with you 100%....I have seen Hunter questioned and the man was honest to qestions like..."do you think you got your job with Burisma because of your father?"...Hunter: "Probably...." Q. "do you know anything about natural gas or energy? Hunter: Not much...."
Pelosi and Schifft are following on this fourth day of repeating again and again and again and again the reworked articles of impeachment is the blueprint of Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels:
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
I agree with you 110%
This circus has to end. Get it into committee where they can drag the stuff out till infinity.
Then remand it over to a special prosecutor and a grand jury.
If they would vote to dismiss, and it ends, then the DOJ can get involved in the committee investigations into it.
Right now, they cant get involved because it will cause a hell of a uproar. It would amount to jury tampering.
Mac taught linda the tv circuit...lots of cash for useless blatherings.
You do understand that once this is dismissed in the senate that the President can direct HIS DOJ to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate no?
Right now the President can not, nor should not, do that.
That would in fact force Graham to toe the line in committee.
Dammit Linda, decide of you are going to have a spine or not and quick screwing around.
Because he is a lying backstabber like most all senators are just think of the supposed conservative senators who have screwed us out of realizing the full potential of the Trump presidency. Sessions, lee, Cruz, McConnell,sasse. Lindsay not even on that supposed conservative set he in the Romney, McCain, Collins set ... Even more worthless. At least Rand Paul is a recent convert against backstabbing well when mowing your lawn but it’s a start. I think only Kenny and Blackburn are online two rising in esteem among the deplorables
West Carolina i meant.
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With a little luck you may eventually get it correct.....
“This impeachment is all about the Biden connection to the Ukraine.”
This impeachment is all about Trump winning.
They are not trying to litigate Biden you Deep State mole. They are trying to uncover evidence.
Gut tells me linda is right on this one
He does support them. He'd allow the dems to call anyone they want and Trump to call anyone the democrats want, but nobody democrats object to.
In my opinion, after this is all over Trump needs to support a primary against Graham. I've had it with his two faced nonsense.
Biden would just take the Fiftfh.
I've had the same thought. Way too many other powerful people are about to be exposed by this mess - just like with Epstein.
Given the rented Hollywood digs, I'm guessing that Hunter has experienced/will soon experience a tragic drug overdose.
It needs to end.
But it won’t until Deep State is dealt with.
Refusing to call witnesses aids Deep State.
He’s as crooked as Biden. Difference is he got caught.
I wonder if the lisping Whitehouse is Graham’s down low boyfriend? I believe that clip was from when Schiff finished late at night. Odd time for Graham to be in the company of a Democrat Senator. DiFi went straight home. Apparently, Graham and Whitehouse were headed for a “night cap.”
Precisely!
Yep, as predicable as the sun rising in the east.
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