Now that they have the open hearings that they demanded despite actually dreading them…never expecting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to relent…the GOP has put up their big tent.
First thing on the program…demand witnesses that add no value to the impeachment inquiry...nor even to their defense of the president.
Republicans on Saturday asked that former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and the whistleblower whose complaint triggered the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump be called to testify in public hearings that begin next week.
Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, included the pair in a list of proposed witnesses that he sent in a letter to the panel’s Democratic chairman, Adam Schiff, published on multiple news websites.
In the letter, Nunes said the Democrats were pursuing a “sham impeachment process” that has mistreated Trump. Nunes also accused Schiff of fabricating evidence in order to cast “in a sinister light” the telephone call at the inquiry’s heart.
This is absolutely pitiful, even by Devin Nunes standards.
The inquiry is about what President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do ‘as a favor’. And yes this first came to the fore via a whistleblower. But we are way past that now. We have first hand corroborating testimony from some of the actual participants. Other than embarrass the whistleblower and put them in harm’s way, nothing will be accomplished calling them before Congress.
And Hunter Biden? Other than to stall the proceedings, play to their base, or placate the president, what Hunter Biden did or didn’t do in Ukraine has no bearing here either. This is total distraction…no value add. It is just putting Rep. Nunes “in a sinister light”…one he apparently enjoys!
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