House GOP vows to investigate Biden for campaigning on Amtrak

[turbinetree]

Published 1 min ago on October 21, 2020
By Brad Reed




Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden earlier this month took an Amtrak train ride to campaign in key Rust Belt states — and Republicans are vowing to get to the bottom of it.

Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Wednesday sent a letter to Amtrak CEO William Flynn asking him for information on Biden’s train trips, which they implied without evidence caused delays in the delivery of needed medical equipment during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“We are concerned that the Biden campaign’s use of Amtrak’s charter train redirected Amtrak’s scarce resources during a time of record losses, employee layoffs, and service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Republicans wrote. “We question whether the Biden campaign’s use of Amtrak caused delays of freight trains at a time when supplies are crucial.”

The Republicans then requested that Flynn provide the total cost to Amtrak of hosting the Biden campaign, and also “whether the Biden campaign’s charter train delayed any Amtrak trains or disrupted any Amtrak services.”

The GOP lawmakers also requested “a written response on how the Biden campaign charter train remained in compliance with Amtrak guidance and procedures on COVID-19.”

Read the whole letter here (PDF).

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/house-gop-vows-to-investigate-biden-for-campaigning-on-amtrak/

I just wonder if these four assholes remember how the corrupt team leading his party had a fucking campaign rally on the white house grounds................you know in violation of the Hatch Act.................fuck them

[kwolf68]

1. Good god...

Republicans working on those important items still.

[The_Counsel]

2. Lemme Guess: The Hatch Act, Right?

Are they SURE they wanna ride this train?

And hell yeah, that pun/analogy was definitely intended...

[Sherman A1]

6. Well Played Sir

Well Played!

A good pun should never be wasted.

[Mossfern]

27. Joe's not an elected official

nor employed by the government, so the Hatch wouldn't apply to him.

[TwilightZone]

3. That's one of the dumbest letters I've ever read.

It is monumentally stupid. I would have been embarrassed to be associated with it.

[PatSeg]

4. Oh for f*ck's sake

These people are worse than worthless. They really have nothing better to do? Like maybe the job they were hired to do?

[maxsolomon]

12. They have ceded all legislating to the Dems.

Their only goal is to obstruct and fabricate scandals. They'll come back next congress and do it again.

And again and again.

[PatSeg]

17. Exactly

They are perpetually running for office and as you say, obstructing Democrats and fabricating scandals. For the most part, they don't really believe in government, but they sure believe in self-promotion. Its a game for them and their primary objective is to win, regardless of the consequences. In the process, they'll pay lip service to quaint concepts like democracy, the constitution, and liberty, but that is all just performance art. They truly are despicable human beings who sold their soul a long time ago.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. They are just jealous they didn't think of it...after all they have AF1..prop..

Can we talk assh...s...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. At first I thought this must be from The Onion.

What next? Are they going to investigate Biden's use of motor vehicles to travel on public highways (possibly disrupting local traffic, which the presidential motorcade never ever does), or when traveling by air, using airports and the national air traffic control system?

[Orangepeel]

10. I really expected Borowitz

[PatSeg]

18. Honestly, that is what I thought

the article was at first.

[PA Democrat]

8. Trump's campaign super spreader events disrupt flights/ traffic everywhere he goes

But lets look for something related to Biden to manufacture fake outrage.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Huh?

Seriously? From the party that is busting their a**es to confirm a SCOTUS nominee instead of working on a new stimulus bill to help people bc of the pandemic?!

[maxsolomon]

15. GOP House Reps didn't do jack about Barrett.

They should be busy trying to keep their seats in the coming landslide.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Just speaking of the GOP in general

[Roland99]

11. major poutrage!

[sinkingfeeling]

13. What a joke.

[Aristus]

14. Oh YEAH? Well...well...well... MY Dad's gonna sue YOUR Dad!

[MagickMuffin]

16. Hey dudes: You can't only care about the coronavirus when it suits you to use it as a weapon/tool

You don't care about the virus. You have proved that over and over and over again.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Exactly

[jeffreyi]

21. Thought it was the Onion.

[demmiblue]

22. Biden campaign response:

Link to tweet

This is so ridiculous.

[Nevilledog]

23. Perfect!

[tanyev]

25. Yes! I was just trying to formulate my reply along those lines.

Funny how they assume Amtrak lost money on this. Trump's been campaigning on the taxpayer's dime and stiffing vendors for so long, Republicans have forgotten that not everyone does it that way.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

24. This is how you know they're losing BADLY

they’re throwing all sorts of shit at the wall; unfortunately for them, it’s old, dried up feces and it ain’t sticking.

[Vinca]

26. I wonder if "Rose Garden" rings a bell for these assholes.

That was one of the most blatant violations of the Hatch Act to date.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Fishing expedition

Hope they have plenty of pearls to clutch