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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:18 PM Sep 2020

GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims

For a year, Senate Republicans have teased a bombshell investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden that could rock the former vice president’s campaign for the White House.

But an interim report, issued by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) AKA Rojo the clown and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) less than six weeks before the presidential election and released publicly on Wednesday, is largely a compilation of previously public information — some of it rehashed anew by witnesses who already testified during the House’s impeachment inquiry last year — as well as news articles and strongly worded insinuations with little evidence to back them up.

The report, titled “Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption,” reprises these year-old claims and adds little new to a discussion first raised by President Donald Trump’s defense team in his impeachment trial before the Senate earlier this year, when the president was acquitted by GOP senators on charges of abusing his power by seeking to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. The report does little to substantiate allegations against the Democratic presidential nominee, which have been fueled in part by foreign actors linked to the Kremlin whom U.S. officials have said are attempting to interfere in the 2020 election.

The report relies on vague assessments already revealed publicly — namely, from top State Department official George Kent, who said Hunter Biden’s role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company was “very awkward” for U.S. officials who were carrying out an anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. Kent made a similar remark during his impeachment testimony last fall.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-anti-biden-report-115344612.html

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GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Carnak! "Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption," dchill Sep 2020 #1
I like that world wide wally Sep 2020 #2
These Senators are pretty much traitors in my book. Nt BootinUp Sep 2020 #3
Best response is to ignore it. marybourg Sep 2020 #4
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