Former vice president and Democratic 2020 hopeful Joe Biden began to backtrack his recent announcement that he would refuse to comply with a subpoena should the Senate issue one forcing his testimony in the impeachment hearing. Big man that he thinks he is, Biden often says things out of turn that ends up getting him into hot water.
Biden made his original remarks in a recent interview with the Des Moines Register because some Senate Republican lawmakers are saying they want Biden and his son Hunter to testify in the impeachment trial, that is, if Nancy Pelosi, now the most corrupt Speaker of the House in our nation’s history, ever turns over the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Biden took to social media to say, “I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests,” Biden tweeted Saturday morning. “But I am just not going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony in the impeachment trial. That is the point I was making yesterday, and I reiterate: this impeachment is about Trump’s conduct, not mine.”
I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 28, 2019
The whole phony impeachment of President Donald Trump was based on the lie that president strong-armed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and Biden’s son. No legal basis whatsoever? #EyeRoll
First of all, Biden is still not a political rival. There hasn’t yet been a single Democrat primary vote cast, so there is no rival, yet that never stops the Fake News media from reporting it that way.
Biden went on to say that the Senate should subpoena White House officials who were witnesses to “Trump’s shaking down the Ukraine government.”
This guy isn’t the brightest bulb in the box. That lie about the president shaking down the Ukrainian government is the entire reason why Biden and his son must testify.
President Trump asked Zelensky to investigate both of the Bidens as well as Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company that Hunter Biden sat on the board for and was paid $83,000 a month, and an additional $83,000 a month in consulting fees, totaling a whopping $166,000 a month when he had no experience in the gas industry, the energy industry, or Ukraine.
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From the Washington Examiner:
Biden, in the Des Moines Register interview, claimed that if he were to testify, it would detract from the president’s alleged misconduct.
“What are you going to cover?” Biden said to Register Executive Editor Carol Hunter. “You guys are going to cover for three weeks anything that I said. And (Trump’s) going to get away. You guys buy into it all the time. Not a joke … Think what it’s about. It’s all about what he does all the time, his entire career. Take the focus off. This guy violated the Constitution.”
Democrats are urging Senate Republicans to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial; however, the Bidens are two individuals whom the Republicans have wanted to testify, while Democrats don’t support forcing their testimony. The former vice president has previously said that he has no intention of testifying.
