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GOP ‘Circling The Drain’ As Biden Impeachment Crashes And Burns: Former Prosecutor

The Thursday indictment of an FBI source by the U.S. Department of Justice who provided House Republicans with information used as part of an ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden not only means that impeachment is now off the table, but it also signals that Republicans are “circling the drain” as the 2024 election draws closer, according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.

Kirschner was a guest on MSNBC Friday morning, and he labeled House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and his cohorts in the GOP as “irretrievably incompetent.”

Alexander Smirnov was hit with two counts of allegedly giving the FBI false information about the president and his son, Hunter Biden, during the 2020 presidential campaign, which led Kirschner to note, “Any time you’re dealing with a source, the three most important words are corroboration, corroboration, and corroboration. The fact that the Republicans would rely on somebody like this, who has now been criminally indicted for providing false information about Hunter Biden and potentially, by extension, President Biden, the fact that Republican members of Congress would rely on this raises the question, you know, are they sort of irretrievably incompetent, or do they just turn a blind eye to the credibility of the evidence that they’re using in what is one of the most consequential moves: an impeachment hearing against a president of the United States.”

Kirschner added, “You know, it just shows that the Republican Party, or at least certain factions, continue to circle the drain. You have to wonder, is there anybody in the Republican Party that’s willing to do the hard work of pulling them out from this nosedive?”

“This is beyond embarrassing, it is just not governance. It is, you know, inexcusable”

The Republican Party cannot govern. They’re too busy trying to create smokescreens in a desperate attempt to distract from the 91 felony counts their likely presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is facing. And now their subservience to the Donald is coming back to bite them squarely on the ass.

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Republicans Furious With James Comer For His Biden Impeachment Inquiry: ‘A Jumbled Mess’

House Republicans thought they had the perfect way to counter the seemingly endless legal problems confronting former president Donald Trump: Open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and pursue removal from office as the 2024 election draws closer by the day.

Now, however, two months after the inquiry began, many in the GOP are calling the investigation “a jumbled mess” and blaming House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who is leading the effort, according to CNN.

“The prospect of their inquiry not culminating in impeachment has prompted some internal frustration among Republicans, with finger-pointing already underway in GOP circles about what went wrong — and who is to blame — even as the Republican-led committees continue to push on with their probe.”

“Some of the ire has been directed at House Oversight Chairman James Comer, who has spearheaded the investigation into Biden family business records.”

The House Republican caucus currently has a narrow margin of two votes, which means they would need unanimity from their members if and when a vote for impeachment goes to the floor.

Some in the GOP, however, are already suggesting they won’t vote to impeach Biden given the scant “evidence” that’s been assembled by Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), a member of the right-wing Freedom Caucus who was also involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, noted, “I don’t know that the case has been made adequately to the American people” to impeach Biden. And a GOP insider echoed those remarks, commenting, “You’d be hard-pressed to say it’s going well. It’s a jumbled mess.”

The crux of the so-called case against President Biden is that he allegedly accepted bribes from foreign countries that did business with his son, Hunter Biden. But there hasn’t been a shred of credible evidence presented to prove such an allegation.

All of this begs the question as to whether or not the real goal of Republicans is to keep issuing subpoenas in the hope the White House will accidentally fail to release every document requested which would then serve as the pretext for charging the president with obstruction of justice regarding a crimes that have yet to be proven.

In other words, it’s just election-year politics, but the waste of time and taxpayer money could wind up backfiring badly on the GOP and costing them control of both houses of Congress while also reelecting Biden for a second term.

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MT Greene Called Out For Fundraising Off Her Latest ‘Sham Impeachment’ Push

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got called out during a committee hearing today for fundraising off her efforts to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

The dressing down of Greene came from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Thompson began by suggesting that Republicans are only pursuing the impeachment of Mayorkas to gain political advantage in the November election.

“Republican members of Congress sworn to support and defend the Constitution are rejecting the framers’ clear intent and over two centuries of precedent in favor of a sham impeachment,” Thompson said. “The sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is a baseless political stunt by extreme MAGA Republicans.”

He then added:

“Chairman Greene, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others have pushed for and even fundraised based on this pre-planned, predetermined scapegoating of the Secretary.”

“In a process akin to throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, Republicans have cooked up vague, unprecedented grounds to impeach Secretary Mayorkas, refusal to follow the law, and a breach of public trust.”

Congressman Thompson is absolutely right. Republicans are backing a multiply-indicted man, Donald Trump, who is facing financial ruin and may also be convicted of stealing classified documents from the White House before ballots are cast later this year. They can feel themselves on the verge of losing worse than they did in 2020 and they’re going scorched earth in a desperate attempt to distract from that reality.

Vote the GOP out. Every damn one of them.

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House Democrat Reveals How She Plans To Derail Biden Impeachment Hearings

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has a message for her Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives who voted this week to open a formal impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden: You’re going to regret that decision.

Appearing on MSNBC, Crockett told host Jonathan Capehart that she will be dragging failed former president Donald Trump’s crimes into the hearings and hinted that she may also go after Republicans who sit on the House Oversight Committee.

Capehart asked the Texas Democrat, “As a member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, what role do you expect to play in this impeachment inquiry process?”

“Yes, absolutely,” Crockett replied. “We are going to be the truth-tellers. We are the ones who cut through the noise and make sure that the American people know that this is nothing more than political theater and games. We are also going to try to juxtapose what it would look like if we had the adults in the room who were running this committee.”

“We will make sure that we juxtapose what it looks like when this committee runs the way that it is supposed to as well as we will bringing out the hypocrisy which exists.”

Crockett then elaborated on how she will contrast Trump with Biden.

“We have Trump on one hand and Biden on the other. We have all of these insurrectionists, congresspersons, and then we’ve got Hunter Biden, you know. We will make sure that the American people and know that this is just not the tree that they want to bark up on.”

When the dust settles, don’t be surprised if the GOP impeachment gambit winds up backfiring on them in a major way and costs them the 2024 election. The only reason they’re doing it is to appease Trump, and that’s not likely to sit well with most voters.

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GOP Senator Tells House Colleagues Their Charges Against Biden ‘May Not Be Impeachable’

A Republican senator is warning his colleagues in the House of Representatives who are moving ahead with an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden that their flimsy charges “may not be impeachable” and wind up accomplishing nothing but embarrassing the party in the midst of the 2024 election.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said on Newsmax that the House should only pursue impeachment if their case is incredibly strong and based on indisputable evidence.

“Send us a case, make sure it’s convictable,” Mullin advised. “And the bar is real high, there’s no question, it’s got to be a misdemeanor, a high crime, or treason. And the other bar is it has to be committed while [Biden] was in office, the current office he holds. So what he did as a vice president, what he did in between the two, may not be impeachable.”

What exactly are House Republicans basing their impeachment inquiry on? Two items, both of which have been fully explained and debunked.

Republicans allege that when Biden was vice president, he demanded that Ukraine fire a government prosecutor who was suspected by the United States and its allies of dragging his heels on fighting corruption in the country, which is allied with the West.

But Biden was merely following the policy of President Barack Obama and top officials in the Obama administration.

At the time the prosecutor was under suspicion, Biden’s son, Hunter, was serving on the board Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.

The other allegation against Biden is that while he was a private citizen, he accepted repayment of a truck loan from Hunter, though such a move is not and never has been illegal in any U.S. jurisdiction.

Simply put, House Republicans are pursuing their bogus “inquiry” for one reason and one reason only: To provide a smokescreen for their likely 2024 presidential nominee, Donald Trump, who has been indicted on 91 criminal charges and may have shared classified intelligence with our adversaries.