On Wednesday, the Republican Occasion tried, as soon as once more, to slander President Joe Biden. Utilizing their management over the Home Oversight Committee to carry yet one more stunt listening to, ostensibly of their investigation of the president for doable impeachment. The listening to went so poorly that many are calling the evidence-free impeachment shenanigans formally lifeless.
The truth that Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz wore a Vladimir Putin Halloween masks to the committee listening to, in a playful little bit of political theater, illustrated how absurd this farce has develop into. Media Issues’ Matthew Gertz identified that even Fox Information’ Sean Hannity, Donald Trump’s bestest buddy, selected to bury the listening to on his nightly present. For those who can’t get the identical bozos who ran your evidence-free propaganda to run it anymore … them’s the breaks.
Rep. Eric Swalwell used his time to pronounce the sham inquiry “Dunzo. Bye bye. Rigor mortis. Lights out. Curtain drop. Mic drop. Peace. Adios. Sayonara. Au revoir. Or a language that you simply all perceive, ‘Do svidaniya.’”
Swalwell even put a time on the demise of the impeachment!
Like earlier Republican-led hearings on the matter, this newest listening to was one Democratic representatives pulled no punches. Rep. Jasmine Crockett took her time to remind everybody that Hunter Biden testified for hours, and the GOP bought nothing out of it. Crockett identified that the one individual Republicans appear to be unwilling to subpoena is the one that generated the “proof” they declare they’re investigating: Rudy Giuliani.
“However, you realize, form of like once we have been making an attempt to get his cellphone, they shut it down, proper?” Crockett mentioned. “Like, they do not need the info.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin allowed former Trump aide Lev Parnas to give a few of the most damning testimony, casting absolute doubt on Giuliani’s “fact-finding” mission in Ukraine, and highlighting the complicity of right-wing propaganda operators like Sean Hannity in spreading misinformation.
The GOP “case” in opposition to the Biden household has consisted of disappointing “bombshell” proof and star witnesses who contradict the Republican narrative. Final week, the Republican-led Home Judiciary Committee introduced in former particular counsel Robert Hur in an try and characterize the president as mentally unfit for workplace. It went poorly. Democratic members of Congress put collectively not one, not two, however three supercuts displaying how weird Donald Trump is, as soon as once more making Biden’s competency as a world chief that rather more placing.
Ideas and prayers.
The president of the Middle for American Progress, Patrick Gaspard, joins us to present his ideas on what the Republican Occasion’s precise message is.