House Republicans are embarrassing themselves as they try to bring Joe Biden’s case to light while questioning Hunter Biden.
Jamie Raskin: House Republicans think speakerphones are the devil’s technology
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said, “What we saw, I think, was a pretty embarrassing spectacle in which Republicans continued to debate completely trivial points. They seem to be obsessively focused on speakerphones and using loudspeakers. I didn’t know that was the devil’s technology, but apparently it is.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin on GOP questioning of Hunter Biden: “They seem to be obsessively focused on loudspeakers and using speakerphones. I didn’t know that was the devil’s technology, but apparently it is. pic.twitter.com/844Nl89toq
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Representative Swalwell told reporters:
But what’s really embarrassing, and I use the word secondhand embarrassment because that’s what we witnessed in there, is that they’re so desperate to humiliate the president that they’ve started asking the president’s son for personal details about a divorce that happened almost ten years ago. That’s what it’s been reduced to.
And they’re doing all this, by the way, when we’re just days away from the government shutdown. We urgently need funding for Ukraine, the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East, increased security and a broader immigration plan in this country. They are wasting their time and wasting the opportunity to do so because they never accepted Joe Biden as president.
And now, in this last Hail Mary attempt, they will try to accomplish something. I promise you, it won’t work after this prologue.
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Swalwell: They’re so desperate to humiliate the president, but they’ve started asking the president’s son for personal details about a divorce that occurred nearly a decade ago. They are doing all this when we are just days away from closing…. pic.twitter.com/eJSS1FMa5H
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 28, 2024
The Republicans in the House are desperate and embarrassing themselves
Chief Trump gave an order to his House MAGA majority. Trump wants President Joe Biden to be impeached. James Comer and Jim Jordan failed to satisfy him, so Comer appears to be even more desperate to find something, anything, that he can use as the basis for a presidential impeachment.
This is why Republicans are obsessed with speakerphones. Comer thinks he can link Biden to his son’s behavior on speakerphone, even though every credible witness who testified said the president was not involved in his son’s business and did not talk about anything related to his son’s activities in the calls.
The country has real problems, and that’s what Republicans are wasting taxpayers’ time and money on. It’s a shame why House Republicans should be sent back to the minority in November.
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