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Goodheart

(5,318 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 08:37 PM Jan 2020

How does it make sense for the trump defense team to attack Hunter Biden? [View all]

The impeachment charge: trump withheld aide money to Ukraine in order to extort them into investigating the Bidens.

The trump defense: it's fishy that Hunter Biden made a lot of money in Ukraine so he should have been investigated.

That's the defense, and it's utterly stupid because it actually supports the impeachment charge. Of course, the d stupidity of that unintended congruity will be lost on trumpists, who will assert that suspicion of Hunter's income excuses away trump's extortion.... never mind that almost all of their orange hero's lifetime income has been suspicious.

You know, I've served on juries a couple of times... and it's sad to say that throwing irrelevant fogs and smokes and irrelevancies and red herrings and non sequiturs, etc., on a case can be very effective defensively. And to top it off, Republicans are not very bright in the first place.



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Because that's what heinous orange told them to do. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #1
And that's why his followers love him, apparently. Goodheart Jan 2020 #4
Indeed. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #7
It is a diversion. When pukes say look over here? look over there. pwb Jan 2020 #2
Diversion and go on the attack is the go-to tactic when a Republican has nothing to stand on TheRealNorth Jan 2020 #5
It doesn't. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #3
Well Zerlinsky didn't smear him. Somebody's got to! nolabear Jan 2020 #6
Like you said. Just blowing smoke, and trying to claim there was corruption in Obama admin, Hoyt Jan 2020 #8
Yep that's all they have Andy823 Jan 2020 #11
they assume acquittal regardless. They're just using free airtime to smear the likely D-candidate unblock Jan 2020 #9
The term they keep using in the media.. Trumps opponents the Bidens..what a load of horse hockey Peacetrain Jan 2020 #10
The average "only half-way paying ... Whiskeytide Jan 2020 #12
It's what Trump does. It's how he knocked down 16 GOP opponents in 2016... Hekate Jan 2020 #13
IMO you should make this a stand-alone new discussion. Talitha Jan 2020 #14
Thank you, I'll consider that Hekate Jan 2020 #16
When beset by fear and doubt, run in circles, scream and shout...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #15
It doesn't. They don't care though, they're getting paid a lot to make shit up. Claritie Pixie Jan 2020 #17
The goal was/is to bring down Biden tinrobot Jan 2020 #18
They believe the Democrats will protect Joe Biden by not permitting Hunter Biden as a witness... kentuck Jan 2020 #19
Look over there! moondust Jan 2020 #20
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