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usaf-vet

(6,092 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 08:55 AM Mar 2020

Senate GOP chairman abruptly shifts course on subpoena targeting Bidens.

The decision by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, comes as Democrats have attacked the probe as politically motivated, especially as Biden surges in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and the chance to face President Trump. Some have warned it could play into Russian efforts to spread disinformation ahead of the presidential election in November.

In a message Wednesday to members of the panel, sent roughly an hour before a planned vote, Johnson said he would indefinitely postpone the subpoena for documents and testimony from Andrii Telizhenko, a Ukrainian national who worked for a U.S. lobbying firm that acted on behalf of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden as a board member.

Johnson said he was doing so “[o]ut of an abundance of caution and to allow time for [senators] to receive additional briefings.”

But Johnson indicated that the investigation would continue. He said in an interview Wednesday that he would instead seek to directly subpoena the lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies.

“My concern is they have not been cooperative,” he said. “If we can get all the records, get all the answers, that’s great. If not, we’re going to have to continue and use other measures.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-gop-chairman-abruptly-shifts-course-on-subpoena-targeting-bidens/ar-BB113hXx

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Senate GOP chairman abruptly shifts course on subpoena targeting Bidens. (Original Post) usaf-vet Mar 2020 OP
Get us test kits or get out of the way. C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #1
I hate that guy, the only person in the world that's made Chuck dewsgirl Mar 2020 #2
Johnson backed Biden in his removal of the prosecutor superpatriotman Mar 2020 #3
he is waiting for more info and more arm twisting, beachbumbob Mar 2020 #4
No trust with Republicans . . . . Iliyah Mar 2020 #5
My guess is the Trump kids are going to have some bright lights focused on them and their grifting. usaf-vet Mar 2020 #6
I think I may have heard that Bloomberg wasn't going to be afraid PRETZEL Mar 2020 #7
GOP leaders are sane enough to prefer Biden in the WH? n/t Laelth Mar 2020 #8
Keyword: Bloomberg dalton99a Mar 2020 #9
Agreed. Release the Kraken! Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #10
+1 n/t Laelth Mar 2020 #11
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
4. he is waiting for more info and more arm twisting,
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:01 AM
Mar 2020

subpoenas will still happen, or be attempted to be issued

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
5. No trust with Republicans . . . .
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:10 AM
Mar 2020

Plus many of these Republicans have had personal quid pro quo dealings with shithole over Ukraine and the Bidens. They are guilty just like that jerk in the WH.

usaf-vet

(6,092 posts)
6. My guess is the Trump kids are going to have some bright lights focused on them and their grifting.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:27 AM
Mar 2020

Bloomberg and The Lincoln Project might be two sources of ads focusing on them.

It can't happen soon enough as far as I am concerned.

Here's hoping!

PRETZEL

(3,245 posts)
7. I think I may have heard that Bloomberg wasn't going to be afraid
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:30 AM
Mar 2020

to shine those bright lights on the spawn's grifting.

As to the Johnson subpoena, I really don't think he really had any intention of issuing any subpoena's.

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
10. Agreed. Release the Kraken!
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 10:45 AM
Mar 2020


Actually, Bloomy should time and target Trump ads as the election season progresses.

You, know, timed release, kind of like emails only true.
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