https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-warns-trump-impeachment-opened-door-gop-impeach-biden-over-ukraine-if-he-1485321
In an interview with Bloomberg News,
Ernst cautioned Biden to be "careful," before revealing that
Republicans may immediately move to impeach the former vice president if
he wins the 2020 election.
"I think this door of impeachable
whatever has been opened," the senator said. "Joe Biden should be very
careful what he's asking for because, you know, we can have a situation
where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people,
right the day after he would be elected would be saying, 'Well, we're
going to impeach him.'"
Biden can be impeached "for being assigned
to take on Ukrainian corruption yet turning a blind eye to Burisma
because his son was on the board making over a million dollars a year,"
Ernst explained.
Lock him up! Lock him up!! It's like the last election all over again. The fun never stops. Can't wait to vote for Ivanka in five years.
ReplyDeleteThis was the danger that the Democrats, in their Trump Derangement Syndrome zeal, never thought would happen. That one of their own, a leading candidate, might be involved in similar hanky panky and therefore vulnerable, probably escaped their notice.
ReplyDeleteBut let's say Biden wins in the fall. The real answer as to whether or not the GOP returns the favour is: do they control the HoR and the Senate? They need both and if they do then he's going to go on trial for the crime of winning the election.
rather nonsensical
ReplyDeletetrump committed a clear crime with ample evidence - no one has discovered a crime done by the Bidens
With all due respect, which authority determined he comitted a crime. The GAO? That's a joke. It's the Justice Dept. that prosecutes crimes. The Senate, overseen by the Chief Justice, failed to convict. So where's the crime? The crime is in the mind of those who think he committed a crime. But from a judicial perspective, Donald Trump is clean.
ReplyDeletethat is less joke as attorney general barr declaring trump exonerated
ReplyDeletewhat trial allows the defendant to block all evidence - documents and eye witnesses?
ReplyDeleteDid not the House call plenty of witnesses? Did not the President release the transcript of the call?
ReplyDeletePlenty of trials never get very far because the prosecutor's case is poor. In fact, it's my understanding that defense attorneys routinely ask the judge to dismiss cases before sending them to the jury, and sometimes the judge will grant the motion to dismiss.
If the people who wrote the Constitution wanted impeachment to be like a criminal trial, they would have written that into the Constitution! They knew an impeachment trial would be politicized when they made the Senate the jury.
All I can say is that I would like to live in the country that has an ideal government as the Rav would like set up in America.
ReplyDeleteso you agree with the democrats except you don't think the extortion constitutes a significant abuse of power?!
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Pelosi said the witnesses before her committees are enough to convict, no additional witnesses needed.
ReplyDeleteBUT THE REPUBLICANS SAID THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE DIRECT WITNESSES E.G. BOLTON - BUT TE PRESIDENT HAS BLOCKED THEM WITH GOP APPROVAL
ReplyDeleteThe Dems had a good argument for impeachment, yes. The problem is that it wasn't strong enough. It wasn't a slam dunk. Impeachment should be for slam dunks.
ReplyDeleteNo president serves more that four years, anyway. So even a President abusing power loses that power by the next election. Then, if it's his second term, he's out of power. And if it's his first term, the voters get to decide things, which is what a democracy is all about.
So to answer the question directly: it was not significant abuse. The Ukrainians got the aid without doing any investigation.
Now, for someone who wants their elected officials to be pure as driven snow, it was significant abuse. But I'm not like that, otherwise I would not participate in politics at all. Otherwise I'd just be perpetually aggravated.