The October surprise: Graham says he would like to issue a committee report by October

[OregonBlue]

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/867688291/senate-republicans-launch-committee-investigations-involving-joe-biden

This is from June 2, but I am sure this is going to be the big October Surprise. Barr keeps making subtle references to this investigation and they are planning on making a huge splash with it. Will the media all fall for it? Of course. They really are scandal hounds. I sure hope the Dems and the Lincoln Project people, etc., are on top of this.

Senate Republicans Set Summer Of Investigations Involving Biden

Senate Republicans have launched politically loaded investigations into the Obama administration and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that are expected to carry on into the fall.

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins the first of a planned series of hearings on the origins of the FBI's 2016 Russia investigation into possible ties with the Trump campaign. Republicans are particularly interested in the decision-making inside the Obama-Biden administration.

"The public deserves to know how a guy who was vice president of the U.S. who is currently trying to be president got away with using the U.S. government to force a foreign country to stop investigating a company that was paying his son over $80,000 a month," said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. As vulnerable House Democrats experienced during impeachment, high-profile partisan inquiries can spark political backlash when voters have more urgent concerns — like the pandemic, the economy and social unrest.

Democratic strategist Scott Mulhauser is a former Biden aide, and a former Senate aide. He said Senate Republicans — who are fighting to hold their majority this November — could be making a political blunder. "It's an overreach here, an overplay of your hand with these hearings. Taking your eye off the ball is a mistake that could cost careers."

Graham says he would like to issue a committee report by October, ahead of Election Day.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I expect to see a report from Barr and Durham on Obama and the Russher hoax as well.

[OregonBlue]

5. It's all going to be a big bunch of bs that they claim was an "investigation" of Obama and Biden.

Graham, Grassley, Ron Johnson, all in.

[agingdem]

9. this isn't 2016..

Graham and his master Trump can plot and plan and spew their "report" in October but it will not have the destructive impact of the Comey/Hillary's email non story...

[lagomorph777]

2. An October yawn. People are struggling to survive long enough to expel Trump.

Nobody gives a flying fuck about Leningrad Lindsey's Q-Anon cray-cray bullshit.

[Doodley]

3. They do anything but deal with America's worst health crisis for a century.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Go right ahead lady g...it won't work this time...it's not 2016

[OregonBlue]

7. I'm not so sure. They are going to have a very formal report of their supposed "investigation"

with lots of big names. Given what scandal whores the press is, it will get a lot of play. I don't believe the GOP is down and out yet. Look what they did to Hillary. They have something going or they wouldn't be so smug.

[bigtree]

6. not exactly a brilliant strategy

...to put Trump's Russia scandal in front of the American people right before they vote.

No one is going to think any differently about the scandal because of this. It's going to be shelved in the conspiracy bin, and likely disproved before it hits the airwaves.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. I can't imagine anything in the report that would overshadow COVID

And I bet Don Winslow will time the release of his “Lady G” bombshell to overshadow the release of Graham’s “report”.