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Bobbing along

By: Scott Johnson — March 22nd 2024 at 08:43
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In his opening statement to the House Oversight Committee earlier this week, the glorious Mr. Tony Bobulinski torched Reps. Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin:

We keep hearing from certain corners that our “democracy is at risk” and that “democracy is on the ballot in 2024,” yet the same people preaching this mantra, who know better, continue to lie directly to the American people without hesitation or remorse. Representatives Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both lawyers, and Mr. Goldman a former prosecutor with the Southern District of New York, will continue to lie today in this hearing and then go straight to the media to tell more lies.

Mr. B., long may you run.

Professor Jonathan Turley takes it from there in the (highly recommended) Fox News column that he has now posted at his personal site: “The Dripping Away of the Democratic Party: Sir Thomas More and the Biden Corruption Scandal.” In the introduction to the column posted on his site, Professor Turley writes (links omitted): “Various members misrepresented my earlier testimony during the hearing on the basis for the impeachment inquiry. Members like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) stated that I joined other witnesses in saying that there was nothing that could remotely be impeachable in these allegations. That is demonstrably untrue. My testimony stated the opposite.”

What about Goldman? You can’t leave him out:

Rep. Dan Goldman, D., N.Y., captured the problem for Democrats in even addressing any of the mounting evidence contradicting the president. Yet, Goldman has long shown a willingness to rush in where angels fear to tread.

In previous attacks, Goldman repeatedly hit the Bidens with friendly fire when eliciting damaging answers from witnesses. Goldman has a habit of raising the worst evidence that his colleagues have avoided. In one hearing, he stumbled badly in raising the WhatsApp message where Hunter told a Chinese businessman that his father was sitting next to him and would not be pleased unless he sent him money. On another occasion, he prompted an IRS whistleblower to note that an email Goldman read into the record was actually a direct contradiction of the denials of the president.

In the latest misstep, Goldman pressed former Biden partner Tony Bobulinski on a proposal shared with Hunter and others to reserve 10% for “the Big Guy.” In other emails, Bobulinski was told to use such codes to avoid mentioning Joe Biden’s name. He was expressly identified as “the Big Guy.” Video

Goldman snapped at Bobulinski, “Did anyone ever respond to that email?”

Bobulinski responded “Yes, they did numerous times. Hunter himself did.”

Goldman blurted out “you’re right” before angrily reclaiming his time to cut him off.

The video below excerpts Bobulinski’s anticipation of the Raskin/Goldman defense of the Biden family business.

House Oversight Committee hearing goes off the rails when Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski calls out Reps. Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman for lying on behalf of the Biden Crime Family. pic.twitter.com/Xny4VTbhVc

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 20, 2024

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Watch: House Republicans Present Impeachment Charges Against Alejandro Mayorkas to Senate

By: Neil Munro · Neil Munro — April 16th 2024 at 15:01

Republican House members have delivered their articles of impeachment against pro-migration DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.

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Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno Slams Sherrod Brown for Calling Mayorkas Trial a 'Distraction'

By: Elizabeth Weibel · Elizabeth Weibel — April 16th 2024 at 18:45

Trump-backed Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno criticized his opponent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) for describing the impeachment of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas as a "distraction."

The post Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno Slams Sherrod Brown for Calling Mayorkas Trial a ‘Distraction’ appeared first on Breitbart.

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Watch: Senate Shutters Mayorkas Impeachment Trial

By: Neil Munro · Neil Munro — April 17th 2024 at 12:00

The Senate begins the trial of President Joe Biden's impeached border chief Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern — but Democrats are expected to shut down the process to minimize public recognition of the many harms caused by Mayorkas's pro-migration actions.

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Democrats Shut Down Senate Trial for Mayorkas Impeachment Charges

By: Neil Munro · Neil Munro — April 17th 2024 at 14:55

Senate Democrats voted unanimously to shut down the Senate trial of Biden's impeached homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas. 

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GOP Impeachment Manager: Mayorkas Has Killed Thousands of Migrants, Aided Drug Cartels

By: Neil Munro · Neil Munro — April 17th 2024 at 15:46

Biden's border chief has killed thousands of migrants and rewarded Mexico's cartels with many billions of dollars, a GOP impeachment manager said.

The post GOP Impeachment Manager: Mayorkas Has Killed Thousands of Migrants, Aided Drug Cartels appeared first on Breitbart.

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— April 18th 2024 at 05:00

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Vulnerable Dem who demanded 'fair' Trump Senate trial changes tune on Mayorkas impeachment

By: Emma Colton — April 22nd 2024 at 11:45
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., voted against holding an impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but was once vocal about the importance of trying President Trump.

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Report: Biden Withholding Weapons from Israel; Dems Impeached Trump over Ukraine Aid

By: Joel B. Pollak · Joel B. Pollak — May 7th 2024 at 11:34

A new report appears to confirm earlier claims that the Biden administration has been withholding arms from Israel in an attempt to send a message of disapproval about Israel's policy of entering Rafah to finish off Hamas terrorists.

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How the Left Tried to Use Stormy Daniels to Impeach Trump

By: Fred Lucas — May 8th 2024 at 17:16

Years before the prosecution called the former porn star to testify Tuesday in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in Manhattan, Democrats viewed Stormy Daniels as an avenue for impeaching Trump when he was president. 

My 2020 book “Abuse of Power” details the origins of Left’s lawfare against Trump, which began immediately after his 2016 election to the presidency.  

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, led the first criminal case against Trump, followed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and two federal prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith.

Indicted in four separate criminal cases for a total of 91 counts, Trump got some good news Tuesday when a federal judge in Florida postponed indefinitely his trial in the classified documents case, one of Smith’s.

Below is an adapted excerpt from “Abuse of Power”:

It’s funny how “legal experts” who would pop up working for Democrats were talking and writing about Trump’s demise for other reasons months earlier. 

Two lawyers whom the House Judiciary Committee hired for impeachment, Norman Eisen and Barry Berke, wrote a New York Times opinion piece along with Noah Bookbinder, also a lawyer, with the headline: “Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?” 

The lawyers suggested Trump could be taken down for a possible campaign finance violation tied to alleged flings with former porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. 

Or, as the lawyers characterized it in their Times piece, federal prosecutors determined that “Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization, and the campaign were all directly involved in an illegal scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.” 

The lawyers’ op-ed in the Times further says Trump “could be named as an unindicted co-conspirator” or “charged if he leaves office before the statute of limitations runs out (most likely in 2022).”

Still, regarding the hush money [for Daniels and McDougal], even House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi had said after the news of  Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s planned guilty plea that it wasn’t grounds for impeachment, even as some of her members were pushing for that. 

“Impeachment has to spring from something else. If and when the information emerges about that, we’ll see,” Pelosi said in 2018. “It’s not a priority on the agenda going forward unless something else comes forward.”

But impeachment was a priority for members of the House Democratic Caucus, which she led. 

In December 2018, when Cohen pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation for paying hush money to Daniels, the plea agreement referred to “Individual 1” as directing him to do so. It was clear that this individual was Trump. 

Cohen also pleaded guilty to tax evasion and other financial crimes and was sentenced to three years in prison. He later pleaded guilty to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In late 2019, with Democrats in control of the House, many of the hardliners in Pelosi’s caucus were pushing the speaker to go beyond Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as grounds for impeachment.

Democrats in the House Progressive Caucus wanted to include the ambiguous obstruction arguments from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the discredited Trump-Russia claims, the campaign finance allegation in the Stormy Daniels case, the emoluments clause of the Constitution, and potentially other matters. By this point, the House had launched 12 separate investigations into Trump. 

But after initial resistance, Pelosi had already caved once to the members demanding Trump’s impeachment on the Ukrainian phone call. The other matters would only prolong the process. 

Trump admitted he and Zelenskyy talked about Joe Biden. Now, Democrats just had to turn it into an impeachable case. 

Nevertheless, keeping swing district House Democrats in the loop was one reason why, early in the process, leadership had considered progressives’ demands for a “kitchen sink” impeachment involving Russia, Stormy Daniels, emoluments, and anything else they could think of. 

This would allow moderate Democrats to go home and say they had voted against some articles of impeachment while still voting to oust Trump in order to appease the base and avoid a potential primary challenger from the left. In the age of MAGA and #Resistance voters, primary challenges are a forefront concern for incumbents on both sides.

During the impeachment hearing, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee called former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to testify. 

As with other witnesses, Yovanovitch’s legal counsel was steeped in Democratic politics. Lawrence S. Robbins represented both Republican and Democrat clients. 

But in a December 2018 op-ed for Politico, Robbins called for either impeaching or prosecuting Trump for campaign finance violation regarding the Daniels hush money.

Robbins wrote: “The Department of Justice’s description of the role of Individual 1—the president himself—leaves no doubt that career Justice Department prosecutors regard Trump as a full blown co-conspirator. And most serious-minded criminal lawyers agree that, if these allegations are true, the president, but for his day job, would have been sitting in the dock with his long-time fixer.” 

Robbins further wrote that Trump would use his office as president to shield himself from prosecution, so “Congress would surely have no choice but to hold him accountable in the way prescribed by the Constitution.”

That way, of course, was impeachment.

The post How the Left Tried to Use Stormy Daniels to Impeach Trump appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Axelrod: Biden Withholding Weapons for Partially Political Reasons Is Different from Trump Doing It

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — May 9th 2024 at 02:06

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser David Axelrod stated that President Joe Biden threatening to withhold certain weapons sales to Israel if they invade Rafah is different from what 2024 Republican presidential candidate

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Tom Cotton: Impeach Joe Biden for Political Decision to Withhold Bombs from Israel

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 9th 2024 at 10:30

The House must impeach President Joe Biden for withholding ammunition from Israel for political reasons, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested.

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Nolte: Biden Says He 'Will Not Rest’ Until Israeli Hostages Freed -- That's a Lie

By: John Nolte · John Nolte — May 9th 2024 at 11:05

His Fraudulency Joe Biden falsely claimed via Xwitter that, “I will not rest until every hostage … ripped from their families and held by Hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones.”

The post Nolte: Biden Says He ‘Will Not Rest’ Until Israeli Hostages Freed — That’s a Lie appeared first on Breitbart.

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Articles of Impeachment Drawn over Biden's Withholding of Israeli Aid for Political Reasons

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 9th 2024 at 16:50

Articles to impeach President Joe Biden over his decision to withhold aid to Israel for political reasons are under preparation, freshman Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) announced Thursday. 

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Marlow on Kudlow: By Holding Back Weapons to Israel ‘Biden Has Blood on His Hands’… ‘This is Impeachable’

By: Pam Key · Pam Key — May 10th 2024 at 19:05

Breitbart editor-in-chief and New York Times bestselling Breaking Biden author Alex Marlow said Friday on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow" that President Joe Biden announcing he withhold weapons from Israel after Congress appropriated funds for them is impeachable.

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Joe Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Keep Recordings of His Special Counsel Interview from Congress

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 16th 2024 at 08:50

President Joe Biden asserted executive privilege on Thursday over his interview with special counsel Robert Hur to prevent Congress from obtaining his audio recordings.

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