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2019-11-22 Home Front: Politix
Will Joe Biden Take the Fifth in a Senate Trial?
[AMGREATNESS] Recently, I asked a liberal friend whether Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
would assert his Fifth Amendment rights in an eventual trial before the Senate. "That’s never going to happen," my friend sniffed. He went on to mock the "conspiracy theory" that the Ukrainians interfered in the election and the "debunked" theory that Hunter Biden somehow broke a law by taking money from Burisma.

"Yes it will," I responded. "The whole theory for impeachment hinges on the assumption that the investigation of the Bidens was just a personal political hit job to help in 2020. If Trump can establish a legitimate law enforcement concern in looking into the Bidens and/or Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, the whole thing falls apart."

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And it doesn’t stop there.

As I’ve pointed out, the "whistleblower" and Representative Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation...
(D-Calif.) have also claimed to have access to secret evidence of presidential wrongdoing. Both have smeared the president in the court of public opinion. Thus, it’s only fair that both be asked to show the American people where they got their information.

What’s also relevant is whether there’s any "there" there when it comes to Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election. Politico reported on this meddling as early as January 2017 and the story remains solid. If so, then the president requesting cooperation with that inquiry is likewise legitimate. As Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) notes, this makes former DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa relevant. She obtained dirt on Trump campaign officials from the Ukrainian embassy to help Clinton beat Trump in 2016. Who paid her? Were those payments reported as "campaign expenditures"?

A trial in the Senate would not be refereed by Adam Schiff or the media. For now, they can roll their eyes and dismiss the evidence that President Trump was on to something when he mentioned both issues in the phone call with Ukraine’s president. As NBC recently wrote of Nunes’ requests for witnesses, "Schiff poured cold water on the request, saying the impeachment probe would not serve ’to carry out the same sham investigations into the Bidens or debunked conspiracies about 2016 U.S. election interference’ that Trump asked Ukraine to conduct." While Schiff acts as both prosecutor and trial judge, he can enforce that interpretation. But he won’t have that role in the Senate.

Which brings us back to former Vice President Biden as a presidential defense witness. What a disaster that would be for Democrats. Not only does Biden have a huge problem with accurately retelling stories without embellishment, but he was also inside the Obama Administration’s inner circles. He might know about Crossfire Hurricane. He might know about FISA abuse.

He certainly knows about what he did to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired. Just imagine a Joe Biden searching for explanations for his interest in this particular prosecutor who just happened to be prosecuting his son’s company. And what did Hunter do to justify that outsized salary? Even the media struggles with this explanation. NPR hilariously claimed that “Burisma brought Hunter Biden on board in an effort to look like it was cleaning up its act.”

And while Joe Biden is tied up preparing to testify in next year’s lengthy impeachment trial, Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif), Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Corey Booker (D-N.J.) will be held hostage six days a week for between six and eight weeks during the height of the Democratic primaries.

Biden has never yet had to face any hard questioning about his involvement in Ukraine. The media rarely pushes him on his denials. “There’s not a single solitary thing anyone said that was done wrong,” Biden said last month. “I don’t discuss business with my son. Everybody has looked at that.”

Posted by Fred 2019-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top

#1 Why take the 5th? Just lie his pants off. Tell me someone who has gone to prison for lying to congress other than people who are not part of the Inner Party?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-22 07:01||   2019-11-22 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 What about a fifth grader?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-22 08:14||   2019-11-22 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 If it gets too closely, criminally, expect Slow Joe to claim senility. "I don't remember". It's not far from the troof
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-22 08:20||   2019-11-22 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump knows that this would be the equivalent of the truth being an impenetrable defense against liable.

So if slow Joe and the coup plotters have to testify..............
Posted by AlanC 2019-11-22 08:33||   2019-11-22 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 If it gets too closely, criminally, expect Slow Joe to claim senility. "I don't remember". It's not far from the troof

Worked for Mueller.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-22 12:58||   2019-11-22 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Not 5th, sniff. Joe will take the (hair) Sniff.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-22 16:09||   2019-11-22 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 He'll take a Fifty or any any other denomination he can finagle.
Posted by Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-22 23:55||   2019-11-22 23:55|| Front Page Top

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