Republicans keep issuing statements that expose the political motivations driving the Biden impeachment inquiry.
“THEY DID IT TO US!” Trump claimed in an August post on his struggling Truth Social platform, demanding Republicans impeach Biden or “fade into oblivion.”
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Partisanship in this impeachment was never meant to be a secret, but that does not mean Republicans are exposing their political motivations. This article can’t even describe them, so it’s increasingly unlikely that many voters will see them either.
The point of a Biden impeachment is closely related to the point of the Big Lie. Neither are intended to succeed or to appear thoughtful. They are intended to undermine Americans’ interest in democracy.
The Big Lie is continually deployed by conservatives not to change the election outcome. It’s too late for that, and they know it. It is used to sow doubt and distrust, so that more and more Americans will decide that voting is inherently unreliable, and that it is no longer the best way to select our leaders.
Similarly, a Biden impeachment circus would be used not to remove Biden in a fair process, but to claim that all impeachments are inherently politically motivated and unfair, and that turnabout is fair play whether warranted or not.
This goes hand in hand with Trump’s constant bellyaching about being “politically persecuted,” and his often-stated promises to illegally prosecute Democrats, judges, attorneys, and civil servants if elected. When Trump claims that all charges against politicians like himself are politically motivated, it clears the way for him to open politically motivated prosecutions of his own. When Republicans openly state that their impeachment hearings are politically motivated, they are doing so to claim that Democrats had the same motivation in 2021.
The two impeachments of Trump did hurt him politically, and Republicans know it. Therefore, they’re trying to negate that black mark—not by giving Biden a similar one, as most pundits and press will claim, but by demonstrating that there doesn’t even have to be crimes or corruption to start this sort of proceeding. They are betting that Americans won’t remember just how bad Trump looked before, during, & after those trials occurred, and that this stunt will make the earlier impeachments of Trump look like a circus as well.
They may be right. Especially if a so-called liberal media outlet like MSNBC can’t even connect the dots to see what’s going on.
The Republican impeachment push against President Joe Biden has always rested on the thinnest of evidentiary ice, but with one of their key informants facing criminal charges for lying to federal investigators, the charade is now on the verge of falling apart.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee — one of the three Republican-controlled committees overseeing the Biden impeachment inquiry — held a hearing in an attempt to salvage the effort.
Democrats brought in Lev Parnas, a former Rudy Giuliani crony who was a key figure in the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s first impeachment. During his testimony, Parnas declared that he had found “zero evidence of the Bidens’ corruption in Ukraine” and that “no credible source has ever provided proof of criminal activity […] no respectable Ukrainian official has ever said that the Biden’s did anything illegal.”
“The only information ever pushed on the Biden’s in Ukraine has come from one source, and one source only: Russia and Russian agents,” Parnas said. “The impeachment proceedings that bring us here now are predicated on false information spread by the Kremlin.”
This week, President Joe Biden said his administration would stop the shipment of offensive weapons to Israel if it went ahead with plans to
BEN VAN BLOEM, CHLOE SIMON, and NOAH DOWE at MMFA:
This week, President Joe Biden said his administration would stop the shipment of offensive weapons to Israel if it went ahead with plans to launch a ground invasion of the Palestinian city of Rafah, due to concerns about civilian casualties.
In response, right-wing media have endorsed further military action in Rafah and downplayed the potential human cost, arguing that Israel has “no choice” but to continue with its operation and saying that withdrawing from Rafah “would be like a surgeon leaving part of a tumor after operating.” Some right-wing figures have also attacked Biden over his threat to suspend shipments, and called for his impeachment.
Right-wing media throwing a temper tantrum over President Biden’s announcement to stop the shipment of weapons to Israel.
Republicans amplify dirt about a Democratic presidential nominee that are shown to be produced by Russian intelligence attempting to meddle in US elections! No, it's not 2016 again, they just did it again.
The basic gist of the story is this: A shadowy ex-FBI informant with ties to Russia has been arrested and charged with giving false informat