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red dog 1

(33,261 posts)
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 03:00 PM Dec 2023

Who's really behind the drive to impeach Joe Biden?

By Robert Reich
December 12, 2023


Republicans hailed the indictment handed down by Special Counsel David C. Weiss last Thursday against Hunter Biden on tax evasion as a validation of their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

But Republicans have still failed to link Joe Biden to any impeachment offense -- or to any offenses at all.
The 56-page indictment never mentions President Biden and provides zero evidence linking the misdeeds of the son to the father.

Nevertheless, House Republicans are pushing ahead this week with their plans for a vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry.


More:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/impeaching-biden

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Who's really behind the drive to impeach Joe Biden? (Original Post) red dog 1 Dec 2023 OP
Putin gab13by13 Dec 2023 #1
Payback and revenge for Trump TwilightZone Dec 2023 #2
The Slobfather malaise Dec 2023 #3
Dump claudette Dec 2023 #4
The Orange victim wanting to Emile Dec 2023 #5
"because we feel like it"?? barbtries Dec 2023 #6
Vladimir Putin, with the aide of Fox News and Sean Hannity. Initech Dec 2023 #7
The Republicans went after Bill Clinton as an act of revenge for Richard Nixon. Staph Dec 2023 #8
I think it is Trump's retribution - He was impeached so he wants Biden to be impeached. Bev54 Dec 2023 #9

gab13by13

(32,489 posts)
1. Putin
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 03:03 PM
Dec 2023

The Republican party is aligned with Putin. They are meeting right now with Hungarian allies of Putin, organized by that terrorist organization, the Heritage Foundation.

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
2. Payback and revenge for Trump
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 03:05 PM
Dec 2023

It's really not any more complicated than that. Trump is pissy and wants Biden impeached.

Initech

(108,949 posts)
7. Vladimir Putin, with the aide of Fox News and Sean Hannity.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 03:46 PM
Dec 2023

Hell Hannity just gave his minions in Congress a pep talk like he was their regional manager or something. Fox News thinks they are entitled to run the government. They are not. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that foreign news networks that spew hate and lies 24 hours a day has absolute power over the will of the people.

Staph

(6,470 posts)
8. The Republicans went after Bill Clinton as an act of revenge for Richard Nixon.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 04:36 PM
Dec 2023

They couldn't go after Jimmy Carter - he was (and still is!) too squeaky clean. They had to wait for the next Democratic president.

Bill Clinton was a basically decent human being who couldn't keep it in his pants. Ken Starr spent four years investigating Clinton and his administration for the suicide of Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments. The only thing that they could find to charge Clinton with was lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Twenty years later, Donald Trump breaks the law. Over and over and over again. The Democratic House of Representatives impeaches him twice, but there aren't enough votes in the Senate to remove him from office.

So, the Republican response is not to find a more honest and patriotic candidate(s). They double down and attempt to impeach the next Democratic president. Like Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden is squeaky clean, but that's no obstacle to the radical Republicans.


Bev54

(13,465 posts)
9. I think it is Trump's retribution - He was impeached so he wants Biden to be impeached.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 06:13 PM
Dec 2023

If he could he would try and impeach Obama as well.

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