Biden’s subpoena silliness shows the joke Dems have made of impeachment
Joe Biden finally backed off his vows to defy any congressional subpoena to testify in the coming impeachment trial, but the sideshow shows yet again how absurd the whole thing’s become.
With Democrats pushing to call witnesses in the Senate trial, some Republicans suggested Biden should testify, too — since President Trump is accused of wrongdoing in pushing for investigations of Joe’s work in Ukraine, and his son Hunter Biden’s profitable dealings there.
Biden was traveling Iowa in his “No Malarkey” campaign bus last Friday when The Des Moines Register asked what he’d do if subpoenaed. The candidate said he’d tell Congress to go whistle — because testifying would mean letting Trump change the subject.
The subpoenas would be “specious” and without “any legal basis,” Biden insisted, ignoring the fact that his fellow Democrats have voted to impeach the president (in part) for his dishonoring of congressional demands for testimony.
For the record, Trump had merely invoked executive privilege. The House (as in all such cases, including past impeachment efforts) could have gone to court in a bid to compel the testimony — but it didn’t want to bother, or slow down its rush to a floor vote.
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Biden has no executive-privilege excuse, so he got hit with a weekend of bipartisan criticism — and reversed himself, saying he would comply if subpoenaed.
To be fair, Ol’ Joe wasn’t being any sillier than Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who’s still threatening to not actually send the articles of impeachment to the Senate unless it settles on trial procedures that meet her approval.
For all their talk of “making history” and “solemn constitutional duties,” Democrats’ impeachment drive remains a frivolous joke.
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