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NCDem47

(2,252 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 04:58 PM May 2020

This Hunter Biden thing.

Don't give up ANYTHING to the Republicans? Fight tooth-and-nail and tell them to go pound sand and see ya in court? Give them a taste of their own medicine?

-OR-

Go into the belly of the beast and show you have nothing to hide? Look bored as hell going through the motions and let the whole affair reveal a brazen political hit?

Whichever route, Republicans will twist themselves in knots to "prove" something.

I'm conflicted as I see both approaches.

What say you?

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This Hunter Biden thing. (Original Post) NCDem47 May 2020 OP
However Bidens handle it is fine by me. LakeArenal May 2020 #1
I don't care about this two shits. pwb May 2020 #2
Hey...I'm with ya. NCDem47 May 2020 #4
Make them take it to court. Fight subpoenas forever. SoonerPride May 2020 #3
Don't give an inch Rstrstx May 2020 #5
This is projection at an art form genxlib May 2020 #6
I'm sure the Bidens will handle it appropriately, grumpyduck May 2020 #7
At this point in the election calendar leftieNanner May 2020 #8
Well if they go after Hunter, then we'll be going after the Trump kids. sunonmars May 2020 #9
The want the issue/headlines not the facts DVRacer May 2020 #10
Republicans will pettifog it either way Shermann May 2020 #11
What Hunter Biden thing? ibegurpard May 2020 #12
Binary thinking is so lazy. hunter May 2020 #13
Take it to Court. Laelth May 2020 #14

NCDem47

(2,252 posts)
4. Hey...I'm with ya.
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:06 PM
May 2020

Let's hope a majority of voters agree with us.

Doesn't mean Republicans won't take this to the max.

I'd love for it to be a big, fat dud that no one is inetrested in or covering.

Rstrstx

(1,399 posts)
5. Don't give an inch
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:10 PM
May 2020

Maybe agree to something like a hostage exchange where the House gets the people they're asking for in exchange for agreement to testify in the Senate. But once we start letting anyone testify without something in return we're letting them frame the narrative. They should get NOTHING until Barr and Trump allow people to testify before Congress. You have to play hardball with these people, virtue is a weakness to them.

genxlib

(5,546 posts)
6. This is projection at an art form
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:10 PM
May 2020

Express outrage that Obama investigated Trump

Meanwhile

Use the power of the Senate to investigate Biden

grumpyduck

(6,275 posts)
7. I'm sure the Bidens will handle it appropriately,
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:12 PM
May 2020

but I agree that going thru the motions, like just responding to requests and such, and pretty much shrugging it off like there's nothing there, would pan out. If nothing else, the media will focus on this report or that report or this investigation or something else and show that nothing is coming up, instead of focusing on the Bidens refusing to give us material and covering up something. Put the focus on the prosecutors, not on the defendants.

leftieNanner

(15,180 posts)
8. At this point in the election calendar
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:14 PM
May 2020

I say give them NOTHING! Make them take it to court. Drag it out.

If they get anything at all, they will make it sound completely nefarious. Kind of like Comey's BS announcement 11 days before the 2016 election.

FIGHT LIKE THEY DO!

Shermann

(7,458 posts)
11. Republicans will pettifog it either way
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:10 PM
May 2020

There's no way to stop that. It's what they do. The more smoke they can manufacture, the more fire there must be.

They really are the masters of that. In one breath they pull that off, and in the next blow off a 448-page Mueller report as a "nothing-burger". You can't beat them at their own game.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
14. Take it to Court.
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:22 PM
May 2020

Court is boring and slow. Minimize the number of news cycles they can dominate with this nonsense.

I advocate maximum resistance through the judicial system.

-Laelth

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