There’s no way the House GOP sees that as relevant, it’s not about the law or what’s just.
The whole point is to ‘normalise’ all the issues with Trump’s presidency so that the public just sees impeachment etc as a normal political process rather than a sign of something being seriously wrong.
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Clinton’s impeachment was over a blow job in office. Bush jr was over lies and a cover up that brought us into a never ending war. Totally the same thing.
I don’t remember Bush being impeached?
He was not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_efforts_to_impeach_presidents_of_the_United_States
There was an attempt, but no house vote to imprach ever happened.
Wow, an actual bOtH sIdEs person in the wild. I thought people like you were a myth.
This is depressing.
They don’t have to find a specific statute to charge him under, but they do have to present some sort of coherent accusation of wrongdoing to avoid looking quite so much like the absolute clowns they are.
They don’t care about looking like absolute clowns. They only care about appeasing Trump and MAGA base. Both say that Biden needs to be impeached. They don’t care why - just impeach him. If anyone says they look like clowns, they’ll just call those people “woke liberal elites working for Soros globalists” or “RINOs” (depending on whether they are Democrats or Republicans).
Then, if they lose their elections due to a blue wave, they’ll parrot Trump, claim voter fraud, and demand that they be installed into office because they won when you subtract all the “fraudulent” (read: Democratic) votes.
Normally I’d agree with everything you said, but the fact that they’re struggling with the impeachment process tells me they do need something more than just saying they don’t like him.
I paid attention to the legal side of things during Trump’s impeachments, so I’m quite sure “high crimes and misdemeanors” is open-ended and not limited to violating laws passed by Congress. It more or less means they can just make up a crime to fit the circumstances.
Why then are they struggling to find an accusation to charge him with? If you have another explanation, I’d love to hear it.
I really don’t seem to be able to accomplish even that. I mean, just look at this shit show.
Wait, what accused action? I thought they didn’t even have an accused action.
Being the second shooter on the grassy knoll.
We all know that was George Santos!!
So close, it was george soros
Pretty sure it was Bernard Montgomery Sanders.
It was JFK himself with a time machine. Read all about it in my latest book, “The truth came out when I went off my meds”
Nah, i’ve seen that doco. He had to go back and kill himself because he got caught up in a mafia scandal and ended up getting jailed, as well as other actions that ended with the earth falling to nuclear war. He was shot at but because of complications the shot didn’t kill him, so he had to go back and finish the job for the betterment of humanity.
I’d read this book.
Finally! The mystery solved! Who was in the Book Depository? Who was behind the Grassy Knoll? The answer is: John F. Kennedy.
They cover this in an episode of the historical show, Red Dwarf.
P sure bidens the guy who killed honest abe
His crime is that big fat D next to his name. Unforgivable!
Not only that, but he beat Trump in 2020. Beating Orange Jesus is heresy and the most illegal thing anyone could ever do!
Into a fine pulp, as I recall. Quite publicly.
Gasp. He did that in office!
I thought that was Lewinsky’s accused action!
Oh, wait, different big fat D.
But he did that in office.
He’s finally going to get what’s coming to him after his hand in the Jade Helm Massacre!
Let’s not forget his involvement in the Bowling Green massacre. So many lives needlessly lost.
Let’s not forget about him and Hilary personally putting out the hits on the Buttery Males with Ben Ghazi.
Well starting World War 2 seems pretty big to me.
Got some checks for loans that are maybe hinky. Maybe. And even then, it’s the sort of thing where literally everyone in Washington is equally guilty.
Got some checks for loans that are maybe hinky.
No, they don’t.
Literally the guy running the impeachment inquiry. Similar checks were revealed to have been written by and to Comer after he said that the checks proved Joe Biden did illegal things.
But for some reason Comer thinks his checks are fine but Biden’s are criminal.
The inquiry is because his son had a job, and they are generally suspicious because of that. And he said hi to his son on the phone once. There’s literally no accusation, they’re trying to find something to accuse him of.
Not trump though. All you need to do is ask him
I don’t know about you all but I’m never voting for Hunter Biden.
Well, I’ve been voting for Hunter Biden for years now.
I haven’t even voted for him once! We must keep Hunter Biden out of office!
Noooooo!
It depends on who Hunter is running against. I can name worse.
The optimist in me wants to say: “yeah, you go girl!”
But the pessimist in me is saying: “cool, so if they’re so bad, who ARE you voting for?”
Out of the options, the lesser of two evils is easier to fight against.
Edit: I don’t actively support Biden. But between the guys who promise to either: A) have made it their purpose to impoverish and delegitimacize everyone but themselves, and the people that, B) are trying to do so without getting caught
I’ll go for the people that don’t want to get caught. They’re at least minimizing the damage they do to the world. 🙄
Extra edit for the dipshits that can’t read properly: I was saying that between the Bidens and the big orange blob and his fanatical cohorts, I’d rather have the Bidens. Y’all think I’m talking shit about the wrong person, and that reading comprehension (or lack thereof) is why I don’t actively support EITHER side because they’re BOTH full of fanatical retards.
I think the most important word in the original post is “Hunter”.
How many times have you voted for Hunter?
I love how you just read whatever you wanted to, and then wrote this scree like we give a fuck what you think, and you’re not even intelligent enough to catch the joke that’s literally one sentence long.
Where did the Hunter Biden hurt you?
He would also have to have actually done any of the accused actions.
No, if they have the votes they can do a sham impeachment for any reason they want. They can vote to impeach just because they don’t like his stupid ugly face. But I doubt they actually have the votes. This is just revenge for daring to impeach Trump. It won’t succeed but they get to do “investigations”. They hope that will hurt Biden next November.
History says that it won’t. See: The impeachment of Bill Clinton. For the young ones out there, President Clinton was relentlessly attacked by the Republicans. They claimed that he and Hillary killed a guy and also had crooked land deals. (Among other things.) They launched huge investigations which turned up nothing.
Nothing except that Bill was having an affair with an intern and lied about it once to Congress. Got him!
So they impeached him for lying to Congress, though to most of America it sounded like impeaching him for having an affair. Certainly, not a very moral thing to do, but not “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The impeachment passed the House but not the Senate.
The Republicans expected that impeaching President Clinton would neuter his support and they would rise to victory. Instead, the opposite happened. People are angry over the obvious political impeachment and gave the win to the Democrats.
I think that most of the Republicans realize that this will backfire on them. However, Trump is demanding that Biden be impeached and they are too cowardly to say no. So they are hoping against hope that they find something, ANYTHING to actually impeach Biden on while they rocket towards a repeat of Clinton’s impeachment minus the affair.
They hope that will hurt Biden next November.
Like when one badmouthes someone then publicly renounces but everyone will only remember the first part and not the second?
Print the accusation on the front page, print the retraction two weeks later on page 8.
“Well you see, the Dems did TWO sham impeachments so it’s only fair we get to do it too.”
Republicans: This guy is the oldest president in the history of the USA, what do you mean his son isn’t pulling the strings? That is how it works with all elder politicians!
Honestly, it’s kind of amazing that they have spent all this time investigating Biden and haven’t found anything crooked. How is that even possible for a politician at his level?
Well as far as I see it he either is the folksy Grampa that he wants you to believe he is or he is a lizard person protected by dark forces within the world government. I see no other options.
I mean, as far as I can tell they have found a lot of crooked, IE suspicious as hell, stuff. Just nothing actually illegal. Like, it was both legal and crooked for him to get his son on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. Seems like everyone skips over that there is plenty of substance in the nonsense republicans are yelling about, this time. Though tbh I could be wrong, because I have no way of knowing for sure which parts of their yelling are completely made up and which are a twist of the truth.
Did he get his son on the board of Burisma or did his son just get himself on the board by using his father’s name just like he made “hey, what’s up dad?” calls to his father in meetings to make it seem like his father had influence?
Also, I’m not sure that using your influence to put your son on a company’s board is inherently crooked. Maybe unethical, but I wouldn’t put it as far as crooked.
Also, the Republicans are screaming about Hunter Biden using his father’s name to get a job, but are dead silent on Trump’s kids doing the same thing. Ivanka got a bunch of trademarks approved in China while her father was President. She had been trying to get them for years unsuccessfully. Then daddy becomes President and suddenly it goes through.
But that’s fine, apparently, because Trump.
It’s worse than that. Hunter Biden may have benefitted from what most of us would call “privilege” using his name.
Jared Kushner was denied top secret clearance because the intelligence agencies believed he would be too easily leveraged by foreign powers, especially given his finances. Donald Trump hired him into an official White House job, called him a Middle East advisor, reversed the intelligence decision and gave him top secret clearance.
At the end of the administration Qatari money helped buy a 1.2 billion dollar property Kushner could not manage to sell otherwise for years. It was a well timed bailout from a group that never showed interest before trump was president.
6 months after leaving the White House Saudis invested 2 billion in a fund to managed by Kushner despite his lack of experience managing funds that size.
I’ve never heard of anything like that related to Hunter.
This is true, but it’s also whataboutism. It was wrong when both people did it. Presidents shouldn’t be doing it at all
Yeah they’ll sit around and say stupid shit like it has any meaning. The rich have been riding their parents coattails forever. I don’t like it either but it’s not exactly earth-shattering news.
Don’t like it? Eat the rich.
And untalented nepo babies getting to do things that no one who was not in their position would be able to do at their skill level is also really common. See Tom Hanks’ son and Will Smith’s kids.
Exactly, if we’re being honest it’s half the reason (the more honest) people who do work hard and accumulate wealth do it in the first place. So that their kids/grand kids can have better lives. I’m not saying that I think nepotism is a good thing, but that on our list of issues to worry about it’s not very high.
I think it’s hilarious that after years and years of digging the best they found was that a born-rich-ruling-class, already-a-hedge-fund manager got a cushy job at a natural gas company.
It’s so blatantly obvious the GOPs attack on him is all tied to Russias interest in Ukraine.
I don’t know the details, but in general it seems pretty obviously crooked. Like, hunter clearly isn’t qualified for it. It’s entirely possible Joe had nothing to do with it, but if that’s so, why haven’t we seen any evidence against? I get that this would be proving a negative, but I think the onus is on Biden regardless when something so openly suspicious comes out.
Why does there need to be evidence? It’s not illegal to use your connections to get your son a cushy job whether he did it or not.
