Graham launches probe of Bidens, Burisma and Ukraine

[crazytown]

Source: Washington Post

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday requesting documents related to former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials, a step seen as a GOP effort to counter the House impeachment investigation of President Trump.

The inquiry by Graham (R-S.C.) is focused on any calls Biden may have had with Petro Poroshenko, then the Ukrainian president, regarding the firing of the country's top prosecutor, as well as any that referenced an investigation of Burisma, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed Biden's son Hunter Biden.

Graham's document request suggests he is seeking to legitimize Trump's accusations that Biden, then vice president, put pressure on Ukraine to fire its lead prosecutor to protect his son, a claim without evidence that has been disputed by officials familiar with the investigation.

Graham, one of Trump's fiercest defenders on Capitol Hill, told The Washington Post in late October that he was under intense pressure to launch an investigation into Biden by Trump and his allies.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/graham-launches-probe-into-bidens-burisma-and-ukraine/2019/11/21/5a5675b4-0ca5-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html

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In October Graham said he would not turn to Senate into a circus. Send in the clowns. Don't bother they're here.

[Historic NY]

1. Hows this whitewash going to work when the senate is only a jury....

There is going to have to be recusals.

[NCjack]

54. Maybe the DEMs can use this hearing to present alternative scenarios and

bring to light Repukian nefarious deeds -- just like the Repukes did in House impeachment hearing.

[Cha]

2. Look at Graham here talking about Joe Biden.. but

he'll go to any depths of hell to preserve the "Criminal in the WH"..

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12717743

[emmaverybo]

3. Thanks, Cha. This clip gives great insight into Graham's character or rather complete lack of.

[Cha]

6. And, how drooling rabid

he is to preserve the status quo of the treasonous, moronic criminal in the WH.

It's totally unreal.. we have been dumped into a series of Twilight Zone episodes.. only it's our real living nightmares.

I think we're doing pretty good for holding onto our sanity.

You're Welcome, emma!

[emmaverybo]

8. Drooling rabid he is. Maybe it is indeed darkest before the light and we will wake from this

deepening nightmare. Here’s to our hold on sanity.

[Cha]

11. I believe that! Like the

metamorphosis of a butterfly.

I was just outside and saw snails sliming along the path.. and thought of Lindsay Graham.

to all our holds on sanity

[badhair77]

18. Please let the light come soon.

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Lindsey is awash in dirty Russian money.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4953225-REPORT-Evidence-Outlining-Senator-Lindsey-Graham.html

Trump probably also has kompromat on Graham from his buddy/boss Putin.

[safeinOhio]

17. You need to read this

It links Senator Grahams link to Russian Oil money.

HE has to go on the attack to protect against investigations of him.

[Ford_Prefect]

23. Isn't one of these guys the same oligarch who funded Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman?

Blavatnik, Deripaska, or some other that I can't recall ATM?

[gab13by13]

34. Firtash funded Rudy's pals.

[True Blue American]

21. Well, well, evidence

Of what we thought all along! Now we know why Lindsey is having hysterical rages, going off in all directions. A rat cornered.

Thanks for that link. Needs to be spread far and wide.

[MBS]

15. Wow, I remember that clip

What do the Russians (or Trump- but perhaps that’s redundant) have on him?

[Hotler]

83. pictures of Linsey touching little boys. nt

[True Blue American]

22. Thank you, Cha

For leading me to this thread. So much going on I missed it.

[Cha]

24. You're Welcome, True Blue American..

I have catching up to do, too.

[True Blue American]

25. Just call me TBA

Save you time!

[Cha]

27. Ok.. thanks.. I didn't mind

writing out True Blue American, though.. I like the sound of it. lol

[True Blue American]

29. That is why I chose it.:)

Take your choice, I am feeling much better about our country after listening to the really dedicated Professionals we have been listening to this week.

Holmes take down of Jordan had me laughing. So far the videos are copyrighted? I hope someone can help me here.

[Cha]

32. Excellent choice!

The twitter thread at this link was really interesting.. I don't know if you need to read a wrap up like this but I sure did.. not having a tv

Michael McFaul gives a synopsis of the impeachment hearing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212717989

[True Blue American]

37. I can always use more:)

Had a busy week,plus trying to catch as much as I can.

I will say,” Thank goodness for Democratic Underground and the facts I read here” Always a big lift for the bright Democratic Posters!

[riversedge]

52. the video makes lindsey look like a human for a minute. thanks for post

[Cha]

71. Right.. and then the zombies took over.

rivers

[Historic NY]

67. What a POS he turned out to be.....

he should just come clean.

[Cha]

72. Exactly, Historic NY!

[Grammy23]

78. What a weasel.

The depth of my loathing continues to grow. I despise this scumdog. I hope he is haunted in his sleep by McCain.

[EarlG]

4. As of right now I don't think this is necessarily a big deal

Look at it this way: they were going to do this to the Bidens no matter what. Trump was just a couple of days away from getting the Ukrainians to announce investigations which would have sent the media into speculation overdrive. Even if ultimately there was no “there” there — like Benghazi — the GOP would go into full bore smear mode, with the media playing along.

But now, that plan now completely blown up in their faces. A majority of the country thinks that Trump’s illegitimate attempt to investigate the Bidens was impeachable. In the minds of the public, the idea of an investigation into the Bidens is directly linked to wrong-doing on the part of Trump.

So Graham can have his investigation, but given everything that’s happened it’s going to be a lot harder now to convince the public that what he’s doing isn’t just another partisan smear job.

[catbyte]

5. You're right, but it's just so sleazy that it makes me want to take a shower.

[emmaverybo]

9. Good reasoning.And if not this, something else, and if not Biden, someone else Trump is advised

could beat him. Of course, anyone Obama presidency-related gets special treatment.

[Cha]

12. Timing is Everything.. and it's on our

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side now!

Exactly.. an investigation into the Bidens is directly linked to trump's Impeachment hearings.. now.

It's like shutting the barn door after the horses escaped.. wild and free!

Poor Graham and the rest of the traitors..

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. They need something to give the base in 2020 elections

The worse the impeachment looks, the more it will drive Democratic turnout, and turn true independents to the Democrats this time; so Republican senators need something to shore up their vote, after they've voted to ignore evidence and let Trump off. Because their base and most potential Republican voters are stupid and negligent, it doesn't have to be anything with real substance; they just need a new "but her emails" that they can chant on TV.

[True Blue American]

30. Bunch of little rats

Running in all directions.

[Jakes Progress]

7. Another Russian agent in the Senate.

[sop]

10. Graham "was under intense pressure to launch an investigation into Biden by Trump and his allies"

Just what sort of "intense pressure" are we talking about, Lyndsey? Videos of underage boys? Farm animals? And who are these Trump allies?

[Scarsdale]

45. Or, heavens to Betsy,

Lindsey with a WOMAN? There goes his rep. with his buddies. Well, the little guy needs something to do (since he appears to be unemployed) when golf season is ended, so why not? How do his constituents tolerate this little weasel?

[IcyPeas]

14. another Benghazi

it's just tit for tat

[JohnnyRingo]

16. And they'll end it the month after...

...either Biden drops out or after the election.

Just like Benghazi.

[sop]

46. Or they'll devote the next four years to Ukrainegate after Joe's elected.

[Mike Nelson]

20. They have to do this...

... they think the Dem nom is going to be Biden and this is their email/Benghazi story. Very transparent. There will be something dredged up for the Dem, no matter who wins the nomination.

[wiley]

26. THe same State Department that would not release

a single document for the impeachment hearings? Hope someone calls the little hypocrite on that.

[True Blue American]

31. I want Barr

Taken down.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

75. Yeah, about 6' down.

Another old, over-weight white male with poor diet and not fond of exercise.

[True Blue American]

80. Bloat seems to be the name

Of Republicans.

Trump, Barr, Nunes is fast getting there. Pompeo.

[greymattermom]

51. Don't these documents overlap?

Won't this investigation result in release of documents that include information they don't want to see?

[DeminPennswoods]

28. What documents would Pompeo even have to turn over?

Biden's and his staff are the ones with all the knowledge and records.

[duforsure]

33. Graham is compromised from corruption by putin and trump.

This is exactly how putin has done in russia. trump and graham are russian assets and they will be fully exposed for working for putin.

[gab13by13]

35. The problem is that AG Barr will be helping.

Barr is much more dangerous to our democracy right now than Trump or Graham.

[duforsure]

36. trump, graham, barr and the GOP

Are arrogantly showing contempt for the rule of law, and the truth, but justice will prevail, and those that side with them will be justly dealt with when their time comes, and it will sooner than they think. Graham will regret doing this , and his putin tactics doing this will haunt him forever. They're working for putin now. They will be fully exposed.

[Mr. Sparkle]

38. The house should open an investigation into Lindsey Graham.

[SharonClark]

82. Agree.

[Sloumeau]

39. So, I guess this will be yet another Benghazi!

Let's investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden endlessly! Then we'll make up what we find, or imply that they did something wrong, or both!

[tiptonic]

40. Just wondering

Just wondering, how much Russian money he got. Or what Putin has on him. Maybe pictures.

[NurseJackie]

42. Possibly photos, but not photos of adultery since he's not married.

Maybe pictures.

Possibly photos, but not photos of adultery since he's not married. But yeah, I tend to agree that someone has something on him that's sexual in nature. Something embarrassing for him, or something that he'd prefer to keep private. I can only imagine what it might be.

[mjvpi]

68. Rumors abound that he is gay

Someone should tell him that there is a political party, in the United States, where people don’t care.

[NurseJackie]

69. I think there's more to it than that. If the rumors you mentioned were true...

... then we'd all have a "told-ya-so" and "I-knew-it-all-along" moments, and life would go on. So, I think he fears having something revealed about himself that could have more than just political consequences.

[mjvpi]

70. I totally agree. He comes off as really desperate in his efforts to please someone for some reason.

[duforsure]

41. This shows this was a long planned attack on Biden and his son

For political gain , just like the Hillary's attacks and accusations were. This also shows they've conspired using OUR government by abuse of power to go after political opposition, again. Graham and others when Democrats gain full control will become exposed, with everyone else, and they were working for putin. Republicans have to know this will all be exposed against them all that's involved. Just more putin tactics used by trump and the GOP that'll show they were treasonous and corrupt all along. Redirect attention away from trump by accusing his opposition using a corrupted GOP in Congress. No rule of law, no truth is now what they want for trump and themselves.

[modrepub]

43. Rodent Fornication

That's all this is. Generate an appearance of impropriety to rile up the base and cast doubt amongst the independents. You only need to start an investigation and keep it going as long as possible to do damage. I say the house should open investigations on McConnell's wife for directing federal monies for KY road projects or any other high profile "targets" they can come up with.

Like I've said before, the Dems would do good investigating all the state's which receive more federal money than they pay in and set up some type of austerity bill making any future cuts in government programs fall more proportionally on states that receive more federal money than they pay in (I'd even include SS).

[kentuck]

44. Why did you wait so long, Lindsey?

You could have done this in 2017 or 2018?

[cstanleytech]

47. Clearly am effort to cloud the minds of Trump voters with

the intent of hopefully not losing to many seats to the blue tsunami he sees coming.

[Lonestarblue]

48. It's time to recognize that most of the Republican Party is a criminal enterprise.

They care only about their power and how that power can make them wealthy. I’m convinced that at least some in Congress have sold out to Russia (Ron Johnson, Graham, Nunes, McConnell, probably more) and are being traitors to this country. It’s been said here before, but I feel as though we’re on the edge of an abyss. Are we losing the communication message when impeachment support seems to be declining? As Dr. Hill said yesterday, Russia is already meddling in the 2020 election and it will get worse. How do we as average citizens counter that? I am donating and will work to register voters and encourage people to vote, but somehow it feels as though we are Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill right now.

[SWBTATTReg]

49. This is so obviously political, it's sickening and already tainted by the corruption written all ...

over it. Nothing else. Disgusting. LG should be the one going to jail for abusing his powers of being in the Senate. Disgusting moron.

[in2herbs]

50. If Pompeo furnishes the requested docs to Graham, what is that going to do to the State

Department's refusal to comply with the subpoenaes from the IC as presented to the court?

[rpannier]

53. Lindsey Nunez-Graham

His hearing will be called Bidenghazi
He'll spend millions of dollars and come up with zip in the way of crimes
Graham can go grazing with devin

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Then it should be open season on Trump's kids n/t

[flibbitygiblets]

60. THANK YOU! their corruption and grifting is going on in plain sight, and yet everyone shrugs

If Hunter Biden is "suspect" and the thought is he'd influence his father as president,

Why

Not

Trump's

Children?

His goddamn DAUGHTER and SON IN LAW work in the white house FFS

[perspectives]

56. Biden joined the Burisma board in April 2014 a month after Russia annexed Crimea.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-gas-company-burisma-holdings-joe-bidens-son-hunter-explained-2019-9?r=US&IR=T

[FLSurfer]

57. Republicans need to be careful what they wish for.

If Joe Biden gets taken out of the primaries, the Democrats might end up with an actual progressive candidate.
If that happens, the Republicans just might get slaughtered in the next election.

[Alithea]

58. This move is a defensive one, meant to smooth out the dents that Trump's image

has suffered by the impeachment hearings, more than it is a move against Biden.

Priority # 1 for the GOP is to win another presidential term.
- They continue to support 45 because they think he is their best. If we were now in his second term, they'd be all for impeaching 45 and installing Pence. There's no love lost.
- They think Biden has the best shot at defeating 45, because they think like conservatives. I agree with you that 45 might ultimately be at greater risk from a progressive.
- When a progressive takes the lead, they will start attacking him/her.

[Brainfodder]

59. Golf with Trump, become a chump!

Dove off the deep end of an empty pool head first?

Alien abduction?

Vlad controlled robot?

[The Liberal Lion]

61. Gee, I wonder what they are going to do if Biden isn't the nominee

Here's what we know
1. The Senate will do nothing about the real criminal who currently resides in the White House, most likely because they are in on the crime.

2. The Senate will pursue phony allegations against Biden so that in the case of Biden becoming the nominee they can Benghazi him and keep the orange moron in the White House somehow, that is make plausible that the American public is willing to keep trump in office because Biden is so damn corrupt (this of course is the cover story so that Putin can once again do his work on altering vote totals).


It's so fucking transparent I really don't know why anyone with sense even is willing to play this game anymore.

[TheRealNorth]

62. I would have expected the Republicans to have gone over every

Obama admin document already looking for any malfeasnce they could use. So I don't know if they are just trying to distract of if they are planning something more nefarious (like "creating" evidence). I think that is what Igor, Lev, and the Ghoul were up to, with an assist from the FSB/Russian intelligence.

[Bayard]

63. They just want the headline:

The Dem presidential candidate is under investigation, right up to the end. The same thing they did to Hillary and the emails. They are going for the same effect they hoped for if the Ukrainians had done their dirty work for them.

I doubt the Bidens will refuse subpoenas. Nothing will be found, but they will say, See--he was investigated, not that he is being investigated.

And to carry this to their ultimate wet dream conclusion, Joe would drop out of the race to get them off Hunter's back, even though he did nothing wrong.

[lagomorph777]

64. Won't that fall pretty flat now that the whole plot has been exposed?

Leningrad Lindsey really wants to go down with the Trumptanic!

[treestar]

65. Benghazi II

Here we go.

It seems all the Rs have is this kind of thing. Seems they admit the issues won't win anything for them.

[jpak]

66. Fucking Pathetic

yup

[rockfordfile]

73. It shows that they're desperate.

[Linda Ed]

74. Breaking via NYT: IG Horowitz "made no finding of politically biased actions"

The DOJ IG report "debunks a series of conspiracy theories and insinuations about the FBI that Mr. Trump and his allies have put forward." IG Horowitz "made no finding of politically biased actions" by top Comey, McCabe and Strzok.
https://www.nytimes.com/201...
This is certainly not what Fox News has been telling folks! They will lie about anything!

Kinda seems that William Barr might have some 'splainin to do about his prior insinuations of nefarious conduct, including his allegation that there was "spying" going on..Barr should serve time along with Rump.

Lindsey is having a bleeding nose about now. The way he hyper-hype it on Hannity show the other day you would think that his godfather was vindicated. He got so excited that he scheduled a hearing for 11th Dec even before a date was fixed for the report to be released(9th Dec) He said he had a meeting with Barr and the report would be sickening and damning. Did he forget to ask, “for whom?” How long before Trump claims the IG is a Never Trumper?

[Thomas Hurt]

76. tit for tat, and try to stick it to the libs.

another fishing expedition, likely at the behest of the amoral pig in the WH.

The Senate doing scut work for our dictator in waiting.

They won't find anything, but they will make sh*t up.

Watch.

[Maeve]

77. Reminder--announcing an investigation is an end unto itself

Worth a couple of news cycles, later to be dropped due to complete lack of news....like the commission on voter fraud that was disbanded because there was none.

[majdrfrtim]

79. Lindsey Is A Quisling

I wonder how much he owes Vlad . . .

[truthisfreedom]

81. Yawn. Smells like old man clown car.