Ready to vote yes for an impeachment inquiry. republicans believe newly discovered emails from when then vice president biden used a pseudonym and copied hunter biden could provide a smoking gun and bolster their impeachment push. then vice president biden was trying to hide his identity, which would make you think that he is involved in something he shouldn t be involved with. one email copied to hunter noted that mr. biden had a phone call with then ukrainian leader petro poroshenko, that s when hunter biden was on the board of ukrainian energy firm burisma. republicans may lack the votes needed to launch a formal impeachment inquiry, so they are, instead, framing it as a mid inquiry that does not guarantee impeachment of the president. isn t that kind of a rhetorical slight of hand because the right hears impeachment, the average joe hears impeachment, and they think oh this is exactly what we wanted? it satisfies no one who wants impeachment but it does satisfy those who
On that phone call with raffensperger. he s been ordered to testify, but hasn t yet. that seems to me a significant break in the dam when it happens. it is. you try very hard to get out of testifying, and the supreme court in his home state said the states to supreme court that he had to testify. we also don t know, because it s still a bit of a black box, what the justice department is doing. we know they re looking at the fake electors scheme and other things like that. but he was adjacent to if not part of. so the georgia stuff is in farm or public because there s been a fight over whether he ll testify or not, but he could be on the hook, as well, with some of these justice department inquiries. i think he probably is. but what s interesting to me and the jacks mid inquiry in terms of the grand juries that had been empanel in the sea, in the sort of twin parallel inquiries, is that as far as we know we haven t got before them, which is notable given how central he is. if he s i
Part of. so the georgia stuff is in farm or public because there s been a fight over whether he ll testify or not, but he could be on the hook, as well, with some of these justice department inquiries. i think he probably is. but what s interesting to me and the jacks mid inquiry in terms of the grand juries that had been empanel in the sea, in the sort of twin parallel inquiries, is that as far as we know we haven t got before them, which is notable given how central he is. if he s if peered before, somebody would ve caught him doing it. most likely. he would be essentially. remember, the chief of staff is the guy that everything is supposed to go through en route to the president. doesn t always happen that way at the trump white house, but it did in a lot of these issues in terms of overthrowing the election. he was there, it was also there in january six was great testimony on the committee about what he did and more importantly what he didn t or wouldn t do on january 6th as t