According to a Tuesday letter addressed to committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Biden agreed to testify before the committee on Dec. 13 — as long as the hearing was public. In the letter, Biden’s attorneys quoted Comer’s own demand, issued in November, that given Biden’s “willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.”
The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”
Republicans would not have it. “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
The letter added that open-door proceedings “would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements.”
And that’s exactly why they aren’t going to allow him to testify publicly.
The best bit was at the end:
“I welcome Hunter Biden finally agreeing to testify,” Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wrote on Tuesday. “It’s long overdue for him to come clean in front of the American people.”
Smith deleted the tweet shortly after he posted it.
Hahahaha. They hadn’t picked their outrage position yet and he was far too neutral 😂😂
Republicans would not have it. “Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Comer wrote in a statement. “That won’t stand with House Republicans.”
Are you fucking kidding me right now?
Republicans bitched and moaned for months about not getting a special council and when they finally got what and who they demanded they shrieked and raged that it was all a Biden conspiracy.
Nothing surprises me out of these losers anymore.
Overt hypocrisy is a display of power. They’re showing that they’re not only above the law, but above rationality itself, they can rule on a whim rather than be consistent.
And this is why pointing out, or calling out, conservatives for their blatant hypocrisy is a waste of time and effort. They do not care. Many of them are even doing it on purpose to get people distracted from actual issues.
They pivot to arguing about semantics and other meaningless bullshit, and it works. So they keep doing it.
If you never actually have goal posts you can’t be guilty of always moving them.
Conservatives don’t operate in good faith. They’ll say whatever will let them pretend the opposition are the ones breaking the rules, and if that contradicts something they said before that’s just a bonus.
Funny how often bullies turn out to be cowards.
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To be fair, you have no way of possibly knowing he’s stayed clean.
Also, from what I understand, the guy is packing a massive dong, so I’m sure that helps too. Much less embarrassing than it could have been for him due to our societal norms or whatever.
Edit: not sure why this comment would be controversial. As a “former” addict myself, I know first hand how well some people can hide their use. Anyone who has ever experienced addiction, and relapsed, would tell you that you really can’t know for sure. You just can’t.
Unless you’re testing hair samples or some shit.
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The size of the guy’s dong is completely irrelevant and ignorant of the point that, big dong or small dong, Hunter Biden’s privacy and dignity was destroyed by a woman who wanted social media points.
Republicans told me he was guilty guilty guilty why don’t they want him testifying in a way that makes it IMPOSSIBLE for him to edit his testimony?
They want to attack someone and make sure the defendant has no way to defend themselves in order to preserve their narrative? How republican of them.
If you call for a dick measuring contest, you don’t let it be in public if you know you’re going to lose.
They’re so transparently corrupt it’s not even surprising anymore. They’ve become like cockroaches that are no longer afraid of the light.
I actively try to avoid killing cockroaches - they’re useful to the ecosystem. Republicans, not so much.
I doubt I’d extend them the same courtesy.
Well put.
Yes, that is exactly right. That started sometime in the summer of 2016: they suddenly stopped apologizing, and haven’t apologized since. I remember that’s when it changed; some R had some new scandal (no surprise) but his response was basically, “So?” and that was kind of a shock. It’s like the fix was in, and of course now we know that it was.
That’s been true since at least 2016.
I get he is President Bidens son, but It often feels to me that the waters get muddied to obfuscate any information about WHY he is having legal problems and simply advertise he is HAVING legal problems. (I understand the article eventually gets to that point, but by then I think a lot of people would have tuned out). It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad. The guy has some problems and I dont think being under the media spotlight all the time is good for his mental health.
It just feels like team red use him as an attack vector to hit President Biden, which is kinda sad.
That’s all it ever was. If a similar investigation were conducted into their family members, I’m pretty sure they’d catch a lot more like him. The difference is that Republicans are trying desperately to prove that Joe Biden was actively participating in his son’s schemes, and so far they’ve been unable to find anything. I doubt a similar inquiry into their own affairs would come back clean.
Maybe the only good thing to come of this is that it also publicized what a good dad Joe Biden is
Benghazi II: gaslight harder
Of course not. Then people might hear the truth.
They don’t want a “have you no sense of decency?” moment.
