You Will Anyway: No shame

Friday, May 5, 2023

No shame

Senator Chuck Grassley has again relayed uncertainty as to allegations he and fellow Republican, Representative James Comer have made against President Joe Biden.

The two lawmakers on Wednesday issued a joint statement Wednesday alleging "a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national," in turn requesting compliance from the FBI for the production of an unclassified record which they claim could provide insight into any purported illegality.

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In a new interview with Newsmax's Greta Van Susteren, Grassley seemed to imply that proof behind the allegations made about Biden's past and any communications with foreign nationals remains lacking.

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The senator replied, "It is a very serious allegation. I wish I could say that I knew it was true or untrue."

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Grassley had made similar comments about the uncertainty of the allegations after they initially went public. He reportedly told Chad Pergram, a senior congressional correspondent for Fox News, that he couldn't verify "whether or not it's really criminal activity."

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Like Rudy Giuliani on tape saying he didn't have any proof of the Big Lie. Jesus, these people.

The senator added having faith in whistleblowers that the requested FBI document known as FD-1023 does exist and that he and Comer "have a rough idea" of its contents.

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Ian Sams, a White House spokesman for oversight and investigations, [...] previously told Newsweek that the new allegations are a continuation of five years of the GOP "lobbing unfounded, unproven, politically-motivated attacks against the president and his family without offering evidence for their claims or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. interests."

"That's because they prefer floating anonymous innuendo, amplified by the megaphone of their allies in right-wing media, to get attention and try to distract and deflect from their own unpopular ideas and lack of solutions to the issues the American people actually care about," Sams said.

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Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has introduced multiple unsuccessful articles of impeachment against Biden that never reached the House of Representatives, claims the whistleblower revealed "very credible" information that would allegedly tie the president to "foreign nationals in an alleged pay-for-play scheme to influence policy decisions."

Okay, fine. Let's see the proof.

Republican Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has scaled back threats of impeachment against the president. He has instead focused on officials within Biden's administration.

"You think about [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas, he certainly warrants impeachment, but that's a decision we have to make as a conference...And relative to the president, of course, that's a decision that's going to be made by the full Republican Conference and the speaker, and no one's really focused on that now," Jordan recently told Punchbowl News.

Bunch of yahoos. Put up or shut up.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 05/07/2023:

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