Senate Republicans advance Ukraine probe aimed at Biden despite foreign interference concerns

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

One of President Trump’s top supporters in the Senate is pressing ahead with a politically fraught investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and Ukraine, despite warnings from Democrats that he risks laundering Russian disinformation into the United States through the Senate ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is scrutinizing a Ukrainian gas company’s hiring of Biden’s son onto its board and the activities of a lobbying firm it hired in Washington, reviving a thread of the Trump impeachment proceedings that the president’s allies hope could damage Biden.

Johnson has said he is investigating whether Hunter Biden’s involvement with the gas company posed a conflict of interest to then-Vice President Biden’s work on Ukraine policy. His committee has been collecting documents and in recent days interviewed three witnesses, including a top State Department official who testified during the impeachment hearings, according to people familiar with the inquiry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. Johnson told the Hill newspaper that he is planning to publish his report by mid-September, weeks before the Nov. 3 election.

Johnson, who is working with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), has said Democratic objections are a sign that his inquiry is on the right track.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-republicans-advance-ukraine-probe-aimed-at-biden-despite-foreign-interference-concerns/2020/08/05/6eb3718e-d503-11ea-b9b2-1ea733b97910_story.html

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Republicans are all fucking traitors to this country.

[PSPS]

1. This is kind of amazing because there's really no tread left on that tire.

[regnaD kciN]

4. There was nothing left on "Her e-Mails!!!" either...

But the Republicans have learned well from one of their role models, Joseph Goebbels: "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth."

[BlueMTexpat]

7. And Comey's last-minute

announcement was effective.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Gotta think of a good name for this kabucki theater presentation.

Maybe, Benghazi two -, Boogaloo

[SunSeeker]

3. The GOP is desperate and pathetic. Way to remind everyone why Trump was impeached!

[mr_lebowski]

5. The entire Trump Regime is one GIANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST and you f***stains

are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF IT.

Hypocritical little toady assholes, the lot of the Senate GOP.

[elleng]

6. They gonna manufacture a new one how often,

every month/week/day?

WHO is the 'creative genius' in charge???

[TeamPooka]

8. Pelosi and The House needs to open a shitload of investigations on EVERYTHING Trump has done.

NOW!!!!!

[secondwind]

9. Ron Johnson was one of that small group who spent July 4th in Moscow.

Lindsey Graham was another, Grassley, etc. I am curious why this did not make waves at the time...

[raging moderate]

12. Yes. Republicans visited Moscow on July 4th!

Why that particular date? You are right!

[Iliyah]

10. Actually Russia and Ukraine . . .

fake manufactured investigations partly been fueled by Russia, partly fueled by republicans which equals a whole. republicans are bought and paid for.

Instead of tending to the needs of the USA and her citizens during a Pandemic, failed economy, healthcare failures, insane school openings and election interference by USA's adversaries, republican congress rather make up shit on the Democratic opponent so they can keep power any means necessary.

And many Americans truly feel that republican with the help of Russia and other countries interfered in the 2016 EO's by cheating and stealing it. Also, many Americans blame the republican party for allowing shithole to continue to destroy the country. Blame republicans for over 158,000 deaths and a failed economy.

If republicans loved the USA as they constantly claim, we would not be in this situation now. They are the caused of what is happening to this country, and honestly, Americans are pissed, and at this point in time, fake investigations are the LEAST of what concerns Americans.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Republicans investigate pecadillos while ignoring the orange killer. Homeland Security?

Shooting peaceful protesters in the face. Investigate that.

Failing to defend Americans against a killer virus and tens of thousands die? Investigate that.

[Bayard]

13. A bunch of dogs chewing on the same old bone,

Hoping to find some meat on it.

[rkleinberger]

14. Then the Biden campaign needs to be proactive and go on offense over this.

The Biden Campaign and allies need to paint this what this is: a political witch hunt with no legs. The MSM will try to make this a big deal to derail Biden ahead of the election. Have the Dems not learned anything?!