Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial

[demmiblue]

Senate Republicans are privately debating whether they should use an impeachment trial of President Trump to scrutinize former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter as some Trump allies push to call them as witnesses while others dismiss the suggestion as a risky political ploy.

The ongoing discussions are a revealing glimpse into the fault lines in the GOP ahead of a possible trial of Trump in the upper chamber, where there are varying appetites among Senate Republicans for the type of political combat relished by the president and his most hardcore defenders.

Among a group of Trump’s allies inside and outside Congress, there is intense and growing interest in countering the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry with their own scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings in Ukraine and China. Because his father was vice president at the time, these allies believe it could be a way of explaining why Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call to “look into” the Bidens, who have denied any wrongdoing.

That effort gained steam on Capitol Hill last week at a private lunch where Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and John N. Kennedy (La.) raised the idea of summoning Hunter Biden, according to two people familiar with the exchange who, like others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Paul took his private push public at a campaign rally with the president Monday night in Kentucky.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-consider-including-bidens-in-trump-impeachment-trial/2019/11/06/bde22272-fff3-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

[aquamarina]

1. Quoting 44

Please proceed...

[Baked Potato]

2. Bring It!

The Democratic Senators can use their time to allow VP Biden lotsa airtime to campaign against Numbnuts. All VP Biden has to say is his son was earning a living. He can say while his son was working, Trump’s sons were on Safari bagging Zoo animals, just for fun.

He can say we all know when Trump says “Look into” something, he really means lie for me and your bank account will grow.

[librechik]

3. What are they going to do? Bribe somebody?

cuz last I checked the facts on the Bidens are nonexistent.

And of course the Republicans would bribe, kill, steal, etc . to help the Dear Chosen One.

[TryLogic]

4. Impeachment occurs in the House.

[comradebillyboy]

6. The trial for removal occurs in the Senate...

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trumped up charges.

Nothing says 'we're guilty' louder than when republicans resort to whataboutist bullshit.