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Schiff: Calling Hunter Biden as impeachment witness would be 'an illegitimate abuse of the trial'
by Caitlin Yilek
 | January 21, 2020 08:46 AM

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asserted it would be an “abuse” of President Trump's Senate impeachment trial if Republicans call Hunter Biden to testify.

"It would certainly be fair for the president and his team to be able to call witnesses that can provide material information on the charges. It would not be appropriate for the president to seek to call witnesses merely to try to perpetuate the same smear campaign that was foiled when his plot was discovered," Schiff, who is one of the impeachment managers, told CBS Evening News.

"Hunter Biden, for example, can't tell us anything about whether the president withheld military aid, whether he withheld that aid to coerce Ukraine to conduct political investigations," he continued saying in a clip from the interview, which is set to air Tuesday evening. "Or why he wouldn't meet with the president of Ukraine."

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By making an issue of Hunter Biden being investigated, House Dems opened up a defense of proving an investigation is warranted.
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Honestly, the better argument is to call Joe Biden.  While Hunter was a private citizen, Joe was not, and that's exactly where you'd have to look if you were interested in exposing corruption, and/or using the power of the U.S. government for individual benefit.

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Both would work for me, though calling one of the "jurors" as a witness would be :pop41: .
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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Honestly, the better argument is to call Joe Biden.  While Hunter was a private citizen, Joe was not, and that's exactly where you'd have to look if you were interested in exposing corruption, and/or using the power of the U.S. government for individual benefit.

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Honestly, the better argument is to call Joe Biden.  While Hunter was a private citizen, Joe was not, and that's exactly where you'd have to look if you were interested in exposing corruption, and/or using the power of the U.S. government for individual benefit.

Actually, I think not.  Hunter is the one who can testify as to what he did for Burisima Holdings.  His father may have used influence to get him the post, or Hunter may have traded on his father's name to get the post without his father doing anything. Either way, it was Hunter who got a sinecure with a corrupt Ukrainian company.  If he was pulling $50k a month for doing jack, and therefore can't tell us anything about the company's activities, that's proof there was corruption that should have been investigated.  Joe may have nothing useful to say, but that wouldn't contribute to the defense that asking for an investigation of Burisima was justified.

The really interesting defense witnesses to call are the former Ukrainian MPs who have averred in interviews that Burisima was used to funnel money from the Ukrainian government to the Clinton campaign.
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