"Truly stunning": Republican admits hyped Biden witness "didn't know anything" about alleged bribe

[Peacetrain]

https://news.yahoo.com/truly-stunning-republican-admits-hyped-124853436.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., acknowledged that the Republicans' widely-hyped witness in their probe of the Biden family's business dealings "didn't know anything" about unverified allegations that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden had accepted millions in bribes.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and fellow Republicans had hyped a closed-door session with former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer as part of their growing Biden probe that has yielded no actual proof."

[yellowcanine]

1. "no actual proof"

In other words, There is no damn evidence of any wrong doing, but we can't say that because it would show that this whole thing is a big fat nothing burger.

[underpants]

2. That's why it was closed door - everyone has their take

Their hearings (Comer and Jordan) are a joke. They know it but it’s for Fox and talk radio and then piling on the rest of the media to cover it.

[Danascot]

3. It's disgusting

The GOP puts out lies and their base accepts it as gospel. We'll be hearing about how "Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden had accepted millions in bribes" for months if not longer.

Even though Stop the Steal, many Fox conspiracies, and other right wing BS have been thoroughly debunked much of the MAGA cult continues to believe and repeat them because their identity is so bound up with them. It's harming our democracy.

[bronxiteforever]

7. +1 so sick of it too.

[brush]

4. Well, they grilled Hillary thru 16 hearing and found nothing...

so than means 15 more to go on the Bidens.

[Jarqui]

5. Unlike Trump, Biden's tax returns were audited by the IRS routinely since he's been in office.

I took the time to look them over and have others look them over. Clean as could be.

If you look at the net worth of members of Congress over the last 50 years, Joe Biden was at or near the bottom his entire career. For example, look at how Mitch McConnell did, who has been there just about as long. Look at the $3 billion Jared & Ivanka got from the Middle East.

The only windfall Biden ever saw looking back years on his tax returns was the multiple book deal he did with Jill - which was smaller than many and speaking engagements after he left the Obama White House.

When Joe's son Beau was dying of cancer, Joe was trying to mortgage his house to pay for the treatments. Barack wanted to loan him the money.

This is a GOP smear campaign to damage one of the most honest men who has been in Congress over the last 50 years. Even the GOP know it.

It is like Hillary and her emails or Benghazi. Damage the candidate with bullshit. It is disgusting.
Once again, the great arbiter for democracy: the media is letting us down. These dishonest GOP assholes should be tarred and feathered.

[erronis]

6. Excellent statement of facts. But "dishonest GOP assholes" is a triple-negative...

If I remember right from some math class, that makes the whole phrase negative - as intended.

[llmart]

11. Once again, the great arbiter for democracy: the media is letting us down.

And therein lies the biggest problem with our democracy at this point in time. 24/7 news cycles on all of our different devices. TV's in public places such as airports spewing propaganda. It's insidious and harmful to democracy.

[machoneman]

13. What? How could Joe be near the bottom? Heck, he got $5 million, no $50 million in bribes, right?

Geez, keep up! The MAGATS have resoundingly proved he got megabucks from China, right? It must be true as Fox News keeps saying this. And they NEVER lie! And I read all that on the Innertubes!

[MyOwnPeace]

20. See, we KNOW you're trying to fool us!

That information is found on the "INNERWEBS" - not the "INNERTUBES!"

[Caliman73]

24. You say that mockingly, and I get it...but

A not insignificant amount of the electorate actually accept and believe the bullshit.

Whether we like it or not, people have a "vague notion" that Joe Biden is crooked. They can't really point to anything, but there is this "feeling", I don't know why...

Same thing with Hillary. While she wasn't my favorite politician, you absolutely CANNOT deny that she was intelligent, compassionate, and well suited for leadership. Yet, there was a sense that she was "unlikeable", that she was corrupt, etc...

We know that she held her own and even schooled the clowns during the Benghazi hearings. The problem is that while she was completely exonerated and the hearings were a farce, they still brought a vague perception that "something was wrong" and that she had something to do with it. Hillary was rightfully and validly guarded and protective. She was the subject of a 30+ year smear campaign and unfortunately, it worked, at least in so much that it allowed enough wiggle room for Trump and the GOP to "dirty trick" their way into power in 2016.

That is their goal here. Try to dirty up Joe Biden. They rely on the complicity of the media in reporting the "smoke" without commenting on how stupid, dishonest, and absurd the whole process and premise is.

[Ligyron]

26. And I wonder why they do this exactly?

Are they given instructions by their superiors?

Don't get me wrong, I know it's done and whatever the process, we know what the result is. I just wish one of them would, when they retire for instance, break ranks and tell us.

[Caliman73]

28. Definitely some do it "as requested" but I think it is deeper than that.

When you grow up with a Conservative political ideology, you are taught that your way is the "right way" the "only way". Most Conservatives literally believe that God has ordained that they be in charge.

To that end, they are able to do whatever needs to be done to fulfill "His plan". The reason they accept Trump even as they espouse morality is that he is a vehicle by which they were able to gain power. They value power over any internal consistency.

They actually serve one master and that master is POWER. People come and go, but POWER is always there and they believe it should rightfully be theirs.

[oswaldactedalone]

30. Caliman73

You nailed it.

[NowISeetheLight]

29. In the End

In the end it'll be like Whitewater. $45m back then and nothing but some illcit sexual encounter. They'll probably find Joe didn't signal a right turn while riding his bike seven years ago on a Delaware Street or something and portray it as "bicyclegate". It'll be like the tan suit "scandal".

[CaptainTruth]

19. +100

[CanonRay]

8. Don't they bother to interview these guys before they trot them out?

Silly question, of course not.

[republianmushroom]

9. Well he was their witness. Tells you something about their credibility to investigate.

Just sham hearings but their base believe and likes them.

[Mz Pip]

10. You've truly lost

when you’ve lost Andy Biggs.

[Dios Mio]

12. I think facts are irrelevant to them.

[MayReasonRule]

14. On Point! Notice How Many Clutch Their Genitals While Proclaiming Their "Closely Held Beliefs"...

[Mopar151]

15. They prefer "beliefs". Facts are tricky things!

And not easily manipulated.....

[pandr32]

16. They've primed their base to believe there is corruption concerning the Biden family

...and will continue to push it, even with no evidence. It should be illegal.

[djacq]

17. Wooshh!

The sound of wasted taxpayers money going down the drain.

Nicely spent.

[spanone]

21. Biggs is an uber magat

[Thunderbeast]

22. Yes....But...They REALLY REALLY REALLY believe the bribery story is true!

[cutroot]

23. Mark Twain once said, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on

It shoes .The cons use this strategy all the time. its all they have.

[oldsoftie]

25. Biggs will now be called a "RINO" & yelled at.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. So, To Sum Up...

...he's corrupt but there's no proof of corruption, which must mean he's brilliantly covered his tracks even though he's a "dumb son of bitch" with dementia.
Ah, got it.
He's a dumb genius! Makes perfect sense. Not.

[Johnny2X2X]

31. FOX News called it "bombshell testimony"

They said it was the smoking gun and they said that’s why Trump was indicted yesterday, to distract.

Just so you know that’s how the other side sees this.

[bluesbassman]

32. Jesse Watters' commentary of Smith's press release was textbook gaslighting.

I’m sure the MAGAts and Faux Faithful loved hearing it, but good gawd it was seriously a case of “don’t believe your lying eyes” for anyone else with a remotely functioning brain. Watters is a complete scum, but Faux allows and encourages him to make such statements. It’s their business model.