Hunter Biden’s legal team has been at the center of news coverage this month after it appeared to confirm the authenticity of his laptop in a letter (only to try to backtrack 24 hours later). It was a curious and gratuitous move for Biden and his counsel Abbe Lowell as they called for criminal investigations into his critics, suggested lawsuits against media, and even argued that the tax exempt status of some groups be rescinded by the IRS. Now, however, the team is moving in a far more precarious direction. They seem to be adopting the strategy of Steve Bannon that resulted in his conviction for contempt of Congress. Lowell categorically refused to turn over material to Congress this week, leaving his client open to a subpoena and possible prosecution. The move may have thrilled hardcore Democrats, but it is the Republicans who should be most ecstatic with Hunter’s initial position.
Lowell has declared the oversight investigation in the Biden family’s alleged influence peddling as illegitimate and has refused to turn over records related to its investigation. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Lowell declared “Peddling your own inaccurate and baseless conclusions under the guise of a real investigation, turns the Committee into ‘Wonderland’ and you into the Queen of Hearts shouting, ‘sentence first, verdict afterwords.’”
The move comes after news reports of a Democratic team forming around Hunter to attack potential witnesses and adopt a scorched earth approach in litigation. Even in personal matters, Hunter appears to be dispensing with his prior cultivation of a tragic and besieged figure. Recently, Hunter moved to block one of his daughters from using his surname.
In this latest matter, Lowell appears to be channeling the same strategy of Steve Bannon who was ultimately charged with contempt and convicted. At the time, I said that Bannon was asking for a contempt charge and Biden appears to be replicating this same ill-considered strategy.
Lowell would have been far smarter to turn over some material to the Committee in good faith while seeking to negotiate on the scope of the inquiry. A categorical refusal gives the Committee ample basis to issue a subpoena. Lowell is simply wrong that there is “no legislative purpose” in seeking information on possible influence peddling by the Biden family that could involve the President himself. Such corruption scandals have been part of congressional inquiries from the XYZ Affair to the Teapot Dome scandal to the investigation of Trump family business interests.
Lowell left open the door to Comer convincing him of some “legitimate legislative purpose” in meetings, but the letter went too far in its categorical rejection of the initial demand. Comer is likely to balk at having to convince Hunter Biden of the “legitimacy” of his investigation. A court would likely support the Committee’s right to such evidence for financial and communication records. While the Committee will not necessarily get everything, it is likely to prevail on threshold issue of the right to such evidence.
In the Bannon case, the Democrats spared little time in seeking a contempt order. Just one week after Bannon missed a date to appear, they voted out the contempt sanction of Committee and it was quickly approved by the House as a whole. It was contempt of Congress, as I said at the time. However, Republicans opposed the sanction on the same grounds now being used by Lowell and some Democratic members.
Lowell could tack back on his letter, as he did his earlier letter on the laptop. However, he may have little time to do so. He just laid the foundation for the Oversight Committee to move quickly toward a subpoena and ultimately a contempt sanction, if he maintains this position. Lowell actually expedited the process for the House, shortening the calendar for possible contempt proceedings. If this matter were to go to the courts (either as a criminal contempt matter or an enforcement matter, or both), there is now plenty of time for the Committee to prevail in securing much of this material.
That would place Attorney General Merrick Garland in a tough position. After years of the Justice Department largely ignoring contempt sanctions, Garland moved aggressively to prosecute Trump figures like Bannon. The failure to do so with Hunter Biden would fuel concerns over political bias at the Department.
The bill has come due on the alleged Biden influence peddling operation. While Democrats and pundits have insisted that there is no actual crime raised in such corruption, it is clearly a matter for Congress to investigate. Otherwise, the Democrats will be in a position of arguing that neither the courts nor Congress can pursue allegations of corruption and foreign influence surrounding the President and his family.
That is a fight that the Republicans should relish and Hunter Biden just made it a lot easier.
What’s wrong with this picture? What’s wrong with America?
The invading conquerors like the “free stuff” but they don’t like the Constitution.
“…to OURSELVES and OUR posterity,…”
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posterity
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pos·ter·i·ty pä-ˈster-ə-tē
1: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
2: all future generations
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“We the People of the United States,…secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,….”
– Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations – they meant it)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…”
The elephant in the room is of course the possibility that Moderate Merrick’s DOJ would ever prosecute Hunter the way it prosecuted Bannon. The answer:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
“…Garland moved aggressively to prosecute Trump figures like Bannon. The failure to do so with Hunter Biden would fuel concerns over political bias at the Department.”
The answer: Whaddaya going to do about it, chump?
In all seriousness Mr. Turley, you, as a medium high profile ‘player’ in the establishment, its assumptions have sunk so deeply into you that you don’t completely realize just what’s oging on. “Whaddaya going to do about it, chump?{” has become the DOJ’s default answer to conservative complaints. All the arguments about “due process” and “procedure” and “lawlawlawlawlaw” mean precious little to those in power. Don’t believe me? It’s not only the DOJ that has absorbed this arrogance. The flat failure of the DOBBS leak investigation where the Justices were supposedly questioned but—whaddaya know!_–not under oath is another example.
What are you going to do about it?
You issue subpoenas. No special counsel?
You impeach Garland.
I don’t know if Comer is smart enough to ask Trump for advice on how to deal with this, but if he is, I have a feeling that Trump would take a page out of one of the books he is known to have read, and direct Comer to the wisdom of Sun Tzu:
“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.”
http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
And look, you’ve saved them both the trouble by kindly providing the perfect advice yourself – you have now done your good deed for the day.
Three of them, actually — but who’s counting(?)
Enough. The Fat Lady sang a long time ago.
Are there any Americans left in America?
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
This is all so obvious now, this is the first time in our modern history no one cares, and the trolls are going to troll, but thankfully most of us here are smarter than them and not pushing an agenda or narrative. I care less personally about the indiscretions, which are sadly just expected from people in office (though I do care about them a great deal; to me they simply aren’t a surprise. You aren’t voting for JFK anymore dems and haven’t been for decades, and no, American Conservatives are not the National Front. Stop making comparisons. Nuance seems to be lost on technology-addled brains).
I do not like Trump, but the cover that is being run for this fool’s a** at the highest levels of government is shameful, and every dem in support of it should be ashamed for being too lazy to do their own research. The folks in question will eat crickets with zeal even though ethical farms do no harm. It is exactly backward, and at least 50 % of the country will eat it up with their cricket protein (note: they eat crickets and grasshoppers in very poor countries because they have no other choice. And they are not healthy, they are not ok. Recent immigrants from down south still show up with things like ring worm, which is probably unidentifiable to millennials or younger, if they even know what it is. i guarantee you AOC could not tell you about it. This is what they want to do us, a significantly bigger country that was once very prosperous. Heaven help us, but America GAVE the world smartphones and the WWW). Stop supporting this cr*p in any way shape or form, especially with your dollars, as that is the language they speak.
“The move comes after news reports of a Democratic team forming around Hunter to attack potential witnesses and adopt a scorched earth approach in litigation.”
Lol! It’s exactly what Trump does when faced with an investigation. Turley didn’t seem to pay any attention to these kinds of tactics or criticize them. Hunter’s lawyers are taking a page right out of Trump’s playbook.
Turley probably gets a bonus every time he tries to breathe life into the “Hunter Biden Scandal”, because just claiming the existence of such a “scandal” implies it has merit, something that isn’t proven but very heavily hyped nonstop on alt-right media that doesn’t even bother to couch accusations as “alleged”. Of course, the disciples don’t care that nothing has been proven or that, at best, there is a suggestion of influence peddling, which even Turley has admitted isn’t illegal because lobbyists do it every day. Mark Levin regularly refers to the “Biden Crime Family”, as if they’ve been convicted of crimes or are under indictment. And, the disciples buy it. All of this is, of course, a pathetic effort to offset the actual crimes committed by Trump for the disciples, evidence of which everyone has seen and heard: “I just need to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have”….”Fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”…”frankly, we did win this election”…and the call to Zelenskyy, offering quid pro quo of US aid already appropriated by Congress if he came up with some fake allegations against Biden.
GiGi – shouting “Trump” is not going to be a viable defense for the Biden Crime Family. And Trump was not looking for “fake allegations” against Biden. The real ones are adequate.
edwardmahl: “the real ones (crimes) are adequate.” Which “cirmes”–when was there an indictment and/or conviction? There isn’t either, but you still believe the Biden family is guilty of committing crimes. Don’t you see that your “belief” that Biden has a “crime family” is nothing but hype without any semblance of proof of facts pushed by alt-right mediad?
GiGi, interestingly enough, you don’t seem to require an “indictment and/or conviction” in all your TDS machinations. I’d recommend you read the revelations found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’ll make it easier to keep up with the obvious. I’d recommend you skip all the porn and drug usage to speed things up.
The House oversight committee’s charge is:
“Our mission statement is to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies. We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington – and a voice to the people it serves.
Genuinely good government requires a commitment to expose waste, fraud, and abuse. We ultimately report to hard working taxpayers to ensure their investment in government is spent effectively, efficiently, and transparently.
We identify problems, shine light on the situation, and propose reforms to prevent abuses from being repeated.”
I see nothing in here about Hunter Biden, as he is neither the federal government nor a federal agency. This Committee does not need Hunter’s business records.
You are being obtuse.
@Granny61
Saying Svelaz is being obtuse or lying is like saying water is wet. Svelaz is a resident troll, either retired or paid; I do not know how a regular working person would have the time to be such a pan in the backside.
*pain in the backside. Svelaz is here to disrupt, and quite literally nothing more. Svelaz probably, IRL, does not believe Svelaz.
Svelaz is a resident troll, either retired or paid….
Going on his writing voice(s), my guess is that Svelaz (and his many sock puppets) never graduated from college, is likely under 35 years of age and, like Fred Flintstone in the Hanna Barbera cartoon, wakes in the morning and is paid to report to the quarry, and when the whistle blows he goes home to have a gay ol’ time
😉
Estovir,
LOL!
Thank you for the laugh!
Methinks you stepped on your own foot.
“We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington – and a voice to the people it serves. Genuinely good government requires a commitment to expose waste, fraud, and abuse.”
I didn’t think it was about hunter; -I thought it was about the Biden family selling influence that did- and could- affect “federal government/federal agency” policy???
LOL … too funny.
The Big Guy’s 10%.
That says it all.
People have gone to jail on less evidence.
-G
IMG: You are correct. Also, was there not some communication asking the recipient not to expressly refer to “Joe” but to use some other means of reference? Do you know, did reference to the “Big Guy” follow that earlier guidance?
In the case of Bannon the Democrats demanded transparency. Do these same Democrats now call for transparency concerning Hunter Bidens acceptance if millions of dollars from the Ukrainians and the Chinese? What are they trying to hide? It’s simple. The bank records will confirm the transfer of funds to the Biden cartel. They are fighting tooth and nail because they know that when the bank records are released to the public their political careers will come to an abrupt end. Professor Turley is correct in his assessment but being the gentleman that he his he wont use the common street vernacular. The common man sees this as the cover your ass mode. When all else is lost they tighten up their leather pants. They just don’t want their backsides to be so visible. Joe was correct when he said that his administration would be the most transparent administration in history. Let us shield the eyes of the little children from their exposed derrieres.
Hey Turley – if a partisan Congressional committee asked for all of your business records, would you, as a private citizen, object and refuse? I think you would. That is what is happening here. Maybe all your testimony on behalf of Republicans is because somehow you were getting paid off by the Republicans or have been profiting from it. Shouldn’t Congress be able to rummage through your business records to find out? Shouldn’t they at least get a copy of your laptop and private emails just to make sure? What if your brother ran for office, do you think then you would turn over all of your private business records just so people could make sure you were not getting unfair benefits because of it?
It is not what happened in Bannon’s case.
Big difference.
Hunter is entitled to his privacy and his private business dealings just like any other private citizen.
Ploy, if the government believed that Professor Turley had committed a crime the would have the right to his financial records. Resistance is not the issue. In the Case of Trump they got his records and up to this point no charges have been made. You on the left screamed bloody murder when Trump resisted but now you say that Hunter’s resistance is somehow justified. One would think that you being so fair minded and all would be calling for the release of Hunter’s bank records instead of making excuses for his actions. Sorry, I misspoke about your fair mindedness thing. There is one thing that we do know. Hunter got his cash for doing nothing. If you have any proof of Hunter’s qualifications for his consultations with the Chinese and the Ukranians now is the time for you to present his bonafides. I do expect your silence,
You are incorrect- the SAR’s involve payments involving Huntwr, James and Joe are incredibly relevant.
“Counsel for Hunter Rebuffs Congressional Demands for Documents”
And why wouldn’t he, there is nothing to see right? If you think so, you are probably a ‘nazi’ or least some conspiracy theory nut.
Actually it comes down to this:
Does it ultimately benefit or hurt a leftist cause?
Sure Hunter is a degenerate whore monger and crack head; and Joe Biden often does not know what is the day of the week but that is not what is important. S@@tlibs believe that Joe Biden and his ‘woke’ minions are leading America to a glorious multicultural leftist future and that is what matters.
At this point I could care less about the traditional “conservative – liberal” spectrum since “conservatives”, conserve very little and being “liberal” doesn’t mean you want to help working class people improve their lives.
I speak for many when I say:
I am tired of my kids being force fed drag queen story hour and if I oppose this I am some kind of horrible bigot.
I am tired of public school teachers surreptitiously encouraging my male children to “come out” and provide them with hormone blockers.
I am tried of my culture and ancestors being mocked as backwards and evil.
I am tired of my borders being overrun with millions of people who will never assimilate and become a burden to the taxpayer and country. If “diversity” were really a “strength” you wouldn’t have to constantly gaslight people in an attempt to convince them.
I am tired of having to indicate my pronouns in my professional email signature since antonio is obviously a male name and if someone cannot determine this or my gender within a millisecond of meeting, I have larger problems.
I am tired of the attempts to spread “freedom and democracy” all over the world. And by the way, I am sorry about what has happened in Ukraine but it IS NOT MY PROBLEM and I am not willing to risk nuclear war. Sorry Russia isn’t some 3rd world country that we can invade and destroy in the name of “democracy”
And here’s the kicker, I could care less whether some s@@tlib invites me to their suburban barbecue or calls me a slur.
I do not want to understand, dialogue or reconcile with these people. I WANT A DIVORCE.
antonio
Hey Everyone, please ignore Svelaz and Anonymous, they are trying to take over this comments section. It is idiots like this that have cause sites as varied as The Hill and The Federalist to abandon Comments sections.
On Turley’s latest column above Svelaz has already commented 10 times out of the first 40 comments. These two are demented little partisans that need to be shunned. Note that I didn’t say banned or censored, I said shunned. The way that people ended up shunning Joseph McCarthy.
HullBobby,
I usually do. Just scroll past.
OT, today is national Pizza Day!
Hullbobby, the blog’s alternate moderator, seems a bit miffed over the fact that this is a free speech forum instead of a private exclusive conservatives only safe space.
“These two are demented little partisans that need to be shunned. Note that I didn’t say banned or censored, I said shunned.”
But you WANT to ban and censor. It’s pretty obvious. You didn’t say it. You clearly imply it thru your petty protestations.
Funny thing is George posts far more than anyone else and there’s not a peep from you. Hypocrite.
Hullbobby, they do seem to consume all the oxygen in the room, don’t they.
It’s very odd that Comer’s letter to Hunter Biden asking him to produce classified documents, any classified documents. It’s pretty obvious Hunter Biden wouldn’t or shouldn’t be able to give classified documents to the committee.
It’s clear from the letter that this is more of a fishing expedition rather than an investigation.
HB shouldn’t have any classified documents. If he does have any, that’s a huge problem for him, and they should be turned over to the FBI.
“In the Bannon case, the Democrats spared little time in seeking a contempt order. Just one week after Bannon missed a date to appear, they voted out the contempt sanction of Committee and it was quickly approved by the House as a whole.”
Ah Turley, still being disingenuous as usual. Bannon didn’t just “miss a date”. He outright refused multiple times. The only time a contempt of congress sanction is issued is when all options have been exhausted. They don’t vote on something that serious if it was “just a missed date”.
Anonymous at least gives you the full story and the links to the full letters. After. Turley’s embarrassing testimony yesterday he sure went full deflection mode by posting multiple columns, more than usual, to distract from that poor performance.
Svelaz: It is fairly disingenuous to use the word “disingenuous” in virtually every one of your posts criticizing the professor.
I just hate when someone learns a new word and then just can’t stop using it! Can you think up your own alternative synonym? The d,i,s,n,g,u,o letters must be worn out on your keypad!
LOL that you have such a bee in your bonnet about someone using the word “disingenuous.” This is at least the second time you’ve complained about it.
I love bees, have an historic bee population over 100 years old in back of my property. Thank you for confirming that a bee sting hurts much less than a verbal sting that hits home.
Thanks for confirming that you’ll gladly lie about me when you have no truthful answer.
Lin,
As always, with one or two sentences, you own them. And with such wit!
Very nice!
p.s., this is precisely, very precisely, the second time I mentioned it, –the first time being a while back. This tells us how carefully you read and remember my comments. Thank you.
(addressed to anonymous at 10:52)
Like some others here on the good professor’s blog, I look for your comments, and when in response to all the various anonymous is when I might actually read theirs for context to your response.
In other words, you can’t admit that you lied, so you deflect.
How do you, the biggest liar on the blog accuse anyone of lying. Does that mean she tells the truth?
It sounds like ATS might have a similar problem.
Lin, posting partial information and half truths is the definition of disingenuousness. It’s appropriate to call out disingenuous behavior when it’s obvious as it is in Turley’s columns. Plus he’s disingenuous the majority of the time. It’s only fair to keep pointing it out.
I remember using that word to him and ATS. Suddenly he uses it with vigor. If you check out his phrases you will see a lot of cut and paste from other posters. He puts things together used in different circumstances and therefore make little sense. Such actions makes him look like a fool.
One should be wary harboring so much contempt for Professor Turley that it leaves them to become prickly and tragic. When their antipathy becomes so jaded as to characterize Turley’s testimony yesterday as “embarrassing”, their credibility for much of anything is called into question. Anyone objective and attuned would agree that Turley shared nothing yesterday that was embarrassing. Quite too the contrary, it was those who so feebly tried and failed to discredit him who humiliated and shamed themselves.
Ron A. Hoffman, Turley is not immune from his own faults when his partisan biases show up.
It’s not contempt, it’s criticism and as the professor is well aware it’s part of the free speech principles he holds dear. As a free speech absolutist he should know such criticism and mockery come with it.
He does shows his ‘contempt’ towards twitter and facebook every day. Why would it be a surprise that his own views and opinions are fair game for similar ‘contempt’?
To continue with your own rationalization it is not “contempt” Turley has for Twitter, et.al., but rather “criticism”, if by “criticism” it is meant, as it should be, to mean reasoned judgement about their negative qualities and not simply mockery. I hope you may come to mock him less and to be fairly critical of his negative qualities more.
As for “partisan biases”, it should not be lost on any of Turley’s detractors that his foremost appeal to most persons who follow his blog is that he is far less inclined toward it than any other equally regarded personality today, and just how consciously he guards himself against it. The respect for his objectiveness cuts across ideological divisions and is so widespread that his disparagers need to be wary against coming off as carpers.
Remember Jordan and others did not respond to subpoenas
It certainly appears that Democrats will refuse just about anything a Republican House Committee requests claiming some sort of vague constitutional “misinformation” argument. Anything. As for Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland and little Chrissy Wray are hard in-the-paint loyalists who will effectively run cover for the Bidens per usual. This will last for the next two years. Thank you, Jonathan, for an excellent article.
…”A categorical refusal gives the Committee ample basis to issue a subpoena”…
Yeah but will …”the Oversight Committee to move quickly toward a subpoena and ultimately a contempt sanction”… [?]
Time-will-Tell if we are getting honest Congressional Govenment.
If the Committee does make a move on it, then a charge of ‘Contempt of Congress’ has teeth.
If the Committee does not make a move on it, then a charge of ‘Contempt of Congress’ is irrelevant,
and We are just here for another J-6th DOg & Pony Show.
What does TiT call it?
Doublestandarstan?
Hey Upstate, that is mine (TM). But thanks for citing it!
HullBobby,
Oops! My bust!
Sorry!
Turley links to an incomplete article in The Hill rather than to Comer’s full letter requesting (not subpoenaing) documents and Lowell’s full letter in response.
The article in The Hill also says that Lowell “offered to sit down with House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and committee staff to see whether Hunter Biden has any information ‘that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose.’”
For both reasons, that’s not analogous to Bannon, who was subpoenaed and blew off the J6 Committee entirely.
Here’s the letter that Comer sent: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NL4pJ_scaruSru11gSP3A11sg-2NEzl_/view
Here’s a full copy of Lowell’s response: https://twitter.com/WardDPatrick/status/1623712418634276865/photo/1
Hey hey, it’s jamie raskin’s fan club again today.
Please continue, we’re dying to know what ole Jamie has been told to say by people that share a common lack of ethics and consideration for their common man, but at least have a few brain cells.
jamie raskin…lolol. What, sally jesse rafeal is too busy to tell you what to think?
As Sam noted elsewhere today, “When you can’t pound the facts, pound the witness — a sure sign of a losing case and of a vacuous mind.”
Right, so stop pounding jamie raskin, he is a terrible witness and evidence of your poor choice-making.
We all know who tells raskin what to think and by extension, you.
Anonymous – Turley’s article did not say that the Oversight Committee had issued a subpoena. He said that Lowell’s response was “leaving his client open to a subpoena and possible prosecution.” Turley did not ignore, but rather ridiculed, the offer of Lowell to meet with the committee heads to let them convince him that Biden has relevant records. The Oversight Committee has already made that determination. Imagine a member of the Mafia demanding to be convinced that they should be forced to appear before the Kefauver Committee. They probably would have been difficult to convince.
“Turley’s article did not say that the Oversight Committee had issued a subpoena.”
I know!
I pointed out that it’s one way in which this situation is not analogous to Bannon.
Let them subpoena the docs and see whether it’s challenged, and if so, what the court rules.
This will not end well for Biden and his legal council.
The argument Trump raised was that getting his tax returns was for political show. That once they had them… they would release them.
The courts said no, because there was a political reason… as weak as it was…. So Trump’s tax returns became fodder for Congress.
Here you have Congressional oversight over the executive branch were an alleged crime may have occurred.
This could lead to an impeachment of Biden. Jail time for Hunter and Biden’s brother.
On the upside its vindication of Trump. He was right and the irony is that the impeachment trial of Trump over the phone call was all political with no illegal activity on the part of Trump… just a poor choice of words.
-G
The House should stop negotiating and just issue subpoenas whenever they want information or testimony. They are just wasting time. They should also consider using the sergeant at arms to detain those who refuse to comply, when they have the authority to do so. The DOJ under Biden will do nothing to enforce against his family or allies.
@Daniel,
Unfortunately this is part of the dance.
Did you read Comer’s letter? Lowell will challenge a subpoena, and I’m not so sure that the court would agree to everything in that letter.
But I agree that the Committee is foolish to wait, just as the J6 Committee was foolish to wait in subpoenaing Trump (done too late) and Pence (never done). Pence is going to have a hard time challenging Jack Smith’s subpoena, given what Pence has already publicly stated re: J6.
Unfortunately the Republicans are incompetent. Not only are they incapable of issuing carefully drawn subpoenas, but they are also unable to question witnesses effectively, as evidenced by their letting the Twitter execs wriggle away time and time again. These hearings should be conducted by investigative counsel, with follow up by reps only after they are finished. It would then be possible for someone who is well briefed to follow a line of questioning to its end.
@Anon,
Of course they would challenge the subpoena.
SOP.
The point is that they will lose and they will get hauled in front of the committee.
Things have to play out as part of this dance.
You can’t just dive in and expect to get to the answers.
-G
At the end of life the only thing that will truly matter to those such a s Hunter is if one is found in the “book of life” that will determine one’s eternal destiny:
https://sumofthyword.com/2013/03/06/book-of-life/