Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial

[dajoki]

Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-consider-including-bidens-in-trump-impeachment-trial/2019/11/06/bde22272-fff3-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html#comments-wrapper

Senate Republicans are privately debating whether they should use an impeachment trial of President Trump to scrutinize former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter as some Trump allies push to call them as witnesses while others dismiss the suggestion as a risky political ploy.

The ongoing discussions are a revealing glimpse into the fault lines in the GOP ahead of a possible trial of Trump in the upper chamber, where there are varying appetites among Senate Republicans for the type of political combat relished by the president and his most hardcore defenders.

Among a group of Trump’s allies inside and outside Congress, there is intense and growing interest in countering the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry with their own scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings in Ukraine and China. Because his father was vice president at the time, these allies believe it could be a way of explaining why Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call to “look into” the Bidens, who have denied any wrongdoing.

That effort gained steam on Capitol Hill last week at a private lunch where Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and John N. Kennedy (La.) raised the idea of summoning Hunter Biden, according to two people familiar with the exchange who, like others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Paul took his private push public at a campaign rally with the president Monday night in Kentucky.

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[underpants]

1. OFFS

[gratuitous]

2. Okay . . .

Since the Senate will not be receiving an impeachment referral from the House on the Bidens, and since the Bidens do not presently hold any office, it will be rather difficult to look into the Bidens. It would be such a nakedly partisan ploy that even some media outlets might notice and voice mild concern about it.

But isn't it nice of the Post to give some air to this trial balloon?

[C_U_L8R]

3. They have an incredible knack

for shooting themselves in the foot. You know, we can see you. Would y'all stop acting like guilty co-conspirators for once? Geez.

[spanone]

4. Our republican senators couldn't care less what trump does to the republic.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Just Do It

That'll open up the investigations into the trumpery kiddos.


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