Looking for dirt against Biden when Donald Trump throws his own dirt down almost everyday?
American political campaign often live on the negative …
Looks like this one will also…
But as with Donald Trump?
Negative attention often counts JUST as attention and doesn’t hurt a politician’s base in the end….
Republicans in going after Biden will be highlighting Donald Trump’s negatives less than. 6 months from Election Day…
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., directly accused Biden of spying on the incoming Trump administration, floating an unfounded allegation that Biden directed the unmasking. And he vowed that the issue will not go away, pledging to investigate Biden in his Homeland Security subcommittee.
“This is incredibly troubling and shocking that the previous administration under President Obama under Vice President Biden’s specific instruction was eavesdropping on an American, and an American adviser to the next President,” Paul said at a hastily convened news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York questioned the Republicans’ intent.
“What alternative universe do they live in, spending their time on discredited conspiracy theories against Obama, against Biden, instead of dealing with the greatest crisis we have had in America in decades and decades and decades? What universe are they in? What is in their heads?” Schumer said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Wednesday.
Separately, Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is advancing a second investigation that stems from the impeachment of Trump…
Trump seems to have leaned HARD on Graham who said no to the below…
Not something I thought could happen…
I think this is NOT go good for either Graham or Trump…
It IS NOT what we do in this country…
As I mentioned earlier,Graham wasn’t being a hero here.
He was trying to protect Trump from himself.
If you’re going to subpoena Obama about things that happened in his administration?
Then House Democrats could subpoena Trump.
Agreed Jack….
Trump thinks he’s gonna have the WH forever….
He won’t….
Graham is looking to for possible Q & A’s for former Obama OFFICALS….
NOT Obama or Biden themselves….
In addition ?
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has asked the Trump administration to fully declassify an unusual email former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sent herself regarding Michael Flynn on the eve of her departure, Politico reports.
Through a spokesperson, Rice said she welcomes the release of the email…
Politicalwire…
The Trump/Republican negative ‘scorched earth’ campaign is beginning…
McConnell joins Graham in a possible Obama admin fishing expedition….
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled on Tuesday that he is backing efforts to subpoena Obama-era officials.
McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, referenced Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) announcement that he will schedule a vote for a wide-ranging subpoena on June 4.
“Senate Republicans are taking steps to issue new subpoenas to a wide variety of Obama administration officials. … The American people deserve answers about how such abuses could happen. And we intend to get those answers,” he said….
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