• BigFig
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    1069 months ago

    Imagine not knowing what your own witness is going to say

    • TechyDad
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      759 months ago

      I’m not a lawyer, but even I know that in court (or hearings like this one) you never ask a person a question if you don’t know what they are going to say.

      So either the Republicans missed Legal Questioning 101 (and have never watched a Legal Eagle video) or their “evidence” is so flimsy that “there isn’t enough to impeach” was their best opening.

  • @Nails@lemm.ee
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    259 months ago

    They know they can’t have Biden removed, it doesn’t matter. They’ve already succeeded in convincing their base and any who would swing their way that Biden is a criminal. Better vote Trump just to be safe…

    • Vanon
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      19 months ago

      But their base already believed that, with no evidence. This is all just because they need to act like they’re doing “something”, and it’s much easier than actually governing and helping people (while simultaneously pleasing their corpo masters). The distilled base of angry, miserable, irrational, moron cultists enables it.

  • @Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    149 months ago

    There’s barely enough to get Hunter in a court room. And they’ve probably created more legally actionable offenses trying to pursue it than actionable offenses exist against the president (actually almost certainly add the second number is almost certainly 0), but nobody will pursue those crimes because it might look like it’s politically motivated, just ignore the accusations from the right when you read the previous statement.

    • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Nah, per the latest gun ruling they don’t even have that. Shall not be infringed is the only part of gun law that matters anymore.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    59 months ago

    I love how they are so desperate for narrative, then they are willing to admit that they don’t have one they just want him punished

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    49 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Jonathan Turley, a go-to witness for conservatives in Congress, at one point told lawmakers some of the details they’d gathered “really do gravitate in favor of the president.”

    “But I also believe that the House has passed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Biden.”

    “The key here that the committee has to drill down on is whether they can establish a linkage with the influence peddling, which is a form of corruption, and the President whether he had knowledge, whether he participated, whether he encouraged it.

    “But without that type of nexus, then no, I don’t,” he added in response to whether he would back a vote to impeach President Biden.

    Later in the hearing, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) repeated portions of Turley’s testimony, saying, “Boy, that’s awkward.”

    There’s no reason why we should be talking about actual articles of impeachment until this investigation moves forward,” he added.


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