The Guardian: The Biden impeachment hearing was a fishing expedition - no one took the bait

[OKIsItJustMe]

The Biden impeachment hearing was a fishing expedition – no one took the bait

Chris McGreal
With no evidence and their own witnesses admitting to no firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing, GOP members tried to take a commonsense question too far

Thu 28 Sep 2023 18.08 EDT

There was a commonsense question at the heart of Thursday’s congressional hearing on whether to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden that Republicans are counting on Americans to ask themselves. Would any foreign business hire the president’s son, Hunter, if it were not for his father?

Out of that, Republicans on the House of Representatives oversight committee spun a vision of Biden Sr sitting atop a sprawling crime family that would be the envy of the mafia. But, as so often in modern American politics, the spectre of Donald Trump was lurking in the shadows.

This was not an impeachment hearing. It was a hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to merit an impeachment inquiry into the president.

But it was clear from the moment the Republican committee chair James Comer banged his gavel to launch more than six hours of accusation, distraction, attacks on witnesses and grandstanding that, for his party at least, the matter was already settled.

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. to the gaurdian, pure revenge for trump.

[republianmushroom]

2. The impeachment hearing is nothing more than a gym jim circle jerk. Ordered by trump.