Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Sunday that according to lawyers hired by Congress, "at this point, there's not a specific crime that's been committed" by President Joe Biden in the impeachment probe against him.
They want to imprint on the minds of their "poorly educated" base that Biden has some sort of connection to some sort of crime. Go down the list of dirty tricks - Republicans are using all of them.
In case you need to be reminded, the point here is diluting the impact of conversations about "charges" so that they can say things like, "Biden charges didn't mean anything just like trump charges don't, America isn't interested in wasting time on this, let's move on"
I would say they still failed significantly, they wanted to at least get an impeachment in to be able to say that even trumps impeachments didnt really mean much either.
They may still be able to pivot as you indicated, but the fact that the impeachment process hasn't been minimized is a win for our country in my opinion.
The GOP will continue dragging out this investigation anyway, until they either find some actual dirt or create an artificial precedent that all presidents are under continuous investigation, thus discrediting any future impeachment procedure against their guy. Either way, It's a win.
It's not "revenge" for impeaching Trump, it's revenge for Nixon. The Whitewater investigation didn't find anything until Monica Lewinsky. She actually wasn't even working at the White House when the investigation started.
The investigation wasn't even about her, it was about real estate I believe. They just wanted whatever they could get on him and he made the mistake of lying about something embarrassing which then became the issue... Not to defend him, lying is lying especially if there are laws against it in those situations.
So naturally the Republicans now go to "purgery trap! Purgery trap!" When impeachment is aimed at them because they know what they would do...
Clinton was impeached for perjury, which is a bit different. I don't think he should have been impeached, but Clinton did actually lie under oath about the affair.
Trump's crimes are significantly more serious, and numerous, and the GOP will forever be responsible for refusing to vote to convict.
Clinton did actually lie under oath about the affair.
He didn't, though. They asked if he had sex, he asked them what sex was, they told him, and he hadn't had sex based on that definition. They purposely equivocated on their definition of sex so that they could accuse him of lying.
Look you have known knowns and known unknowns - that is, things that you know that you don't know - but then you have unknown unknowns - things that you don't know that you don't know.
If you ask plato's socrates, there's also things that you don't know that you know. I think, at least. Philosophy class was hard, but this just unlocked a memory lol.
They could not find any crimes on Trump, either. And that is out of 80+ charges that various legal agencies found. Republicans are neither the Law nor the Order party.
Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Sunday that according to lawyers hired by Congress, "at this point, there's not a specific crime that's been committed" by President Joe Biden in the impeachment probe against him.
The White House has repeatedly denied these claims, with President Biden saying that the impeachment inquiry against him is a "baseless political stunt."
Bacon told Welker on Meet the Press: "When I talked to the lawyers on the committee staff, they say at this point there's not a specific crime that's been committed."
"Why continue to waste millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money if we're going to impeach because you believe you've shown he's committed a high crime or misdemeanor.
Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Ian Sams called the invitation for the president to testify a "sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment."
Meanwhile, Biden, the Democratic incumbent, is leading a reelection campaign against former President Donald Trump, who is the presumed 2024 Republican Presidential nominee.
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It made things snap together and finally understand why conservatives are the way they are.
Relevant to this news story, they assume that libs and lefties are just like them and are doing the same things they are: pulling every dirty trick in the book to ensure the superiority of their guys and the screwing over everyone different.
Why is the biggest piece of Nazi scaremongering the alleged "fact" that white people are becoming a weak minority? Because they think the black folk will do exactly what they've been up to.