Biden doubles down on refusal to testify if subpoenaed by senate. But senate is signalling "no witness" trial
Last week Joe Biden said that if he's subpoenaed by the senate as a witness in the impeachment trial, he would refuse to appear.
Wait, haven't the Democrats called refusing to testify after being subpoenaed "Obstruction of congress"? Why yes, yes they have.
Sensing he may have blundered, today Biden "clarified" his previous statement:
If the main matter at issue in the impeachment charge against Trump is that he lacked the authority to ask a foreign government to investigate corrupt dealings by a U.S. vice-president, learning if Biden in fact wangled a million-dollar-a-year job for his coke-addicted son, I'd say it's reasonable to find out if Biden did in fact do that, or something similar.
So the absolute best move for Trump would be to "reluctantly" agree to witnesses, and then submit a list of 100 or so, including Biden and his son.
But astonishingly, the lastest news is that Trump and McConnell are about to agree to a trial with no witnesses.
That would be a very stupid move. Very bad. First, getting Biden to refuse to honor a senate subpoena would be a huge PR advantage for Trump.
But even more significant is this: If the senate refuses to hear a single witness, they'll be handing the Democrats a huge weapon that may well cost the GOP their senate majority, because the Lying Mainstream Media will scream bloody murder that the senate is refusing to do their Constitutional duty of being impartial jurors hearing a trial.
Voters will hate this, and may well hand the Dems a senate majority. Which would be a disaster for the GOP.
Source here.
Wait, haven't the Democrats called refusing to testify after being subpoenaed "Obstruction of congress"? Why yes, yes they have.
Sensing he may have blundered, today Biden "clarified" his previous statement:
"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."I'm sorry, what part of that was a "clarification"?
If the main matter at issue in the impeachment charge against Trump is that he lacked the authority to ask a foreign government to investigate corrupt dealings by a U.S. vice-president, learning if Biden in fact wangled a million-dollar-a-year job for his coke-addicted son, I'd say it's reasonable to find out if Biden did in fact do that, or something similar.
So the absolute best move for Trump would be to "reluctantly" agree to witnesses, and then submit a list of 100 or so, including Biden and his son.
But astonishingly, the lastest news is that Trump and McConnell are about to agree to a trial with no witnesses.
That would be a very stupid move. Very bad. First, getting Biden to refuse to honor a senate subpoena would be a huge PR advantage for Trump.
But even more significant is this: If the senate refuses to hear a single witness, they'll be handing the Democrats a huge weapon that may well cost the GOP their senate majority, because the Lying Mainstream Media will scream bloody murder that the senate is refusing to do their Constitutional duty of being impartial jurors hearing a trial.
Voters will hate this, and may well hand the Dems a senate majority. Which would be a disaster for the GOP.
Source here.
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