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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,320 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 01:31 AM Jan 2020

Rand Paul still wants Republicans to call Hunter Biden to testify

Rand Paul Warns Republicans of Electoral Consequences if They Back Dem Witnesses But Refuse to Call Hunter Biden

Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) warned fellow caucus members that voting against subpoenaing President Trump’s preferred witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial would be tantamount t0 “voting to lose your election.”

“If you don’t want to vote and you think you’re going to have to vote against Hunter Biden, you should just vote against witnesses, period,” Paul said, adding that his “first preference” would be a trial with no witnesses.

“. . . If they insist on having people like Bolton coming forward, my insistence will be not just one witness. But that the president should be able to call any witnesses that he deems necessary to his defense,” Paul stated.


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Last week, McConnell signaled that Republicans, who hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, had secured the minimum 51 votes required to move forward with a trial mirroring that of former president Bill Clinton, in which a vote to call witnesses took place after opening arguments. But a vote to allow witnesses to be called seems likely, after GOP leadership suggested Republicans “generally are not interested in the motion to dismiss.”

https://news.yahoo.com/rand-paul-warns-republicans-electoral-133351658.html
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Rand Paul still wants Republicans to call Hunter Biden to testify (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 OP
He's horrendous. NCLefty Jan 2020 #1
Rand greytdemocrat Jan 2020 #2
He needs to watch Rachael and Anderson's DURHAM D Jan 2020 #3
Call a shit ton a witnesses and let them fook themselves. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #4
About what??? Moscow's Mitch is trying to mount a circus and Paul wants a side show??? marble falls Jan 2020 #5
Maybe Hunter Biden should be called. mwooldri Jan 2020 #6
Awesome! Then let h.biden's lawyers say they need 3 weeks to prepare their briefs unblock Jan 2020 #8
I kind of get why his neighbor beat him up. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #7
well, I think it was ok CatWoman Jan 2020 #15
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause you just might get it. Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2020 #9
Hunter Biden is a victim of the impeachment worthy crime Mersky Jan 2020 #10
Has putin bribed these Senators ? duforsure Jan 2020 #11
Maybe Rand wants to make sure he is the senior senator from Kentucky Buckeyeblue Jan 2020 #12
and many more? scarytomcat Jan 2020 #13
Russian Repug Rand Paul continues carrying PUtin & drumpf water. lark Jan 2020 #14
I want a meteorite to fall on his head. LiberalFighter Jan 2020 #16

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
6. Maybe Hunter Biden should be called.
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 01:44 AM
Jan 2020

And Mr. H. Biden refuse to show up. And for good measure file a lawsuit questioning the subpoena.

What's good for the goose....

Mersky

(4,986 posts)
10. Hunter Biden is a victim of the impeachment worthy crime
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 02:18 AM
Jan 2020

To call him as a witness is to perpetuate the very crime.

paul damn well knows this, and he ought to be ashamed of himself.

Eta: If Hunter did appear, he’d probably make the republicons look very bad. But paul’s gonna talk this up to leave lingering questions in the minds of fox news viewers, as Hunter probably won’t be called, and to skew away from the real matters of the pResident having diverted congressional funds to benefit his re-election campaign by leveraging a foreign govt. Duh, I just have to state what an obvious ruse this Hunter Biden as witness tactic is.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
11. Has putin bribed these Senators ?
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 07:22 AM
Jan 2020

By funneling money for their re-election campaigns , and with hackers help them win? I suspect that is very likely sad to say.

Buckeyeblue

(5,504 posts)
12. Maybe Rand wants to make sure he is the senior senator from Kentucky
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jan 2020

But he come by his crazy notions honestly,. His dad is totally nuts.

lark

(23,179 posts)
14. Russian Repug Rand Paul continues carrying PUtin & drumpf water.
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 11:26 AM
Jan 2020

He's a disgusting, amoral, lying, greed pig, Russian Repug who cares nothing about America, it;s laws or it's people - but only cares for power and $$ and will do anything PUtin says to get it.

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