They're not even going thru the motions of pretending any more

[TXPaganBanker]

Biden is the presumptive nominee*? Pressure a foreign country for an investigation that eventually gets you impeached.
Biden is 4th place? Crickets.
Biden sweeps South Carolina primaries?

"Senate Republicans plan first subpoena in Burisma, Biden probe"

"Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is preparing to subpoena a witness tied to Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, in an escalation of the GOP probe of the firm that comes as former vice president Joe Biden’s fortunes are rising in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary....

Johnson sent the letter one day after Joe Biden was announced the winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, a victory that has resurrected his campaign and shaken up the race for the 2020 nomination.

In an interview Monday night, Johnson denied that Biden’s win sparked his subpoena request, noting that “we’d still be asking for the same information” regardless of Biden’s status as a Democratic presidential candidate."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-plan-first-subpoena-in-burisma-biden-probe/2020/03/02/0111b39a-5cbb-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

(Moved because apparently it was in the wrong forum, even though the intent was to call out Republican behavior, not sway anyone on their choice of candidate.)

Edit: * Presumptive nominee refers to Trump's assumption in 2018 that Biden would be his biggest threat in the 2020 election. https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-fears-biden-losing-pennsylvania-1532514558-e1bf871b-5edb-44e8-baa4-5506e99550fb.html

"Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden" around Dec 1st, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/nunes-vienna-trip-ukrainian-prosecutor-biden/index.html

"Johnson sent the letter one day after Joe Biden was announced the winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, a victory that has resurrected his campaign and shaken up the race for the 2020 nomination." Speaks to the timing, and Biden's change in position from 5th place with 6 delegates to 2nd place with 54 delegates, only 6 behind Sanders.

[HarlanPepper]

1. Hunter Biden leads back to Trumps own impeachment

I’m not sure this is the winning play they think it is.

[TwilightZone]

2. Trump was so concerned about running against Biden that he ended up getting impeached over it.

That's pretty much all we need to know. I think they had (and probably have) internal polling that showed that Trump would get thumped by Biden and that's why he started targeting him so early.

Agree on the timing. They're trying to blunt the momentum, but I think the quickness of it shocked pretty much everyone.

Note on your note: just to clarify for future reference, anything that involves a candidate goes in Primaries, even if it's not directly related to the primaries. It can sometimes be a bit confusing.

[TXPaganBanker]

7. Gotcha, thanks.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Republicans are DESPERATE.....

They see another Blue Tsunami that not only will keep the House in Democratic hands , but chances are looking better for a Senate flip, and the strong showing of Democratic party voters despite their efforts to suppress that vote.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I seem to recall Johnson involved in something shady with Ukraine or Russia.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. Those rats are so scared of Biden they can't function.

[beachbumbob]

6. lol, Hunter biden is not Hillary Clinton which took 2 years of nonstop investigations

Putin interference and Jame Comey defying DOJ guidelines...


nope, it will only keep the corruption of trump in current news cycle right up to Nov 6th

[IcyPeas]

8. they are investigating hillary again:

see this post from yesterday.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142440227

[beachbumbob]

9. lol, more wasted time to keep attention off the imbecile in the whitehouse