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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on January 20, 2020, 04:19:05 PM

Title: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Lucifer on January 20, 2020, 04:19:05 PM
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/01/20/nadler-hunter-biden-must-not-be-called/

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I have been writing on the obvious relevance of Hunter Biden  as a defense witness and the equally obvious hypocrisy of some Democrats in demanding their own witnesses while refusing to consider key White House witnesses.  Now. House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has suggested that, if a trade is needed to secure House witnesses, the managers will not agree to any witnesses if Hunter Biden is part of the deal.   If true, is the House prepared to give up on proving its case to protect the Bidens from the ignoble moment of answering questions about the Ukraine contract?  That is a considerable price to pay to protect Joe Biden.  It is also another reason why the decision to rush the impeachment vote was such a historic blunder by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If they had waited a couple months as I called for in my testimony, they could have called these witnesses and not handed over control to the Senate. Instead, they impeached by Christmas and then waited a month.

Nadler insisted on Face the Nation that all “relevant witnesses must be heard” — meaning their witnesses.  Yet, if allowing witnesses meant Hunter Biden being called, he suggested that they would reject any deal — and any witnesses.   He dismissed any negotiation as a cover up:  “Any Republican senator who says there should be no witnesses, or even that witnesses should be negotiated, is part of the cover-up.”

As I previously noted, under Federal Rule of Evidence 401, courts will often review possible testimony under the standard of whether “it has a tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”  Even before the adoption of the Bill of Rights, Congress enacted a statute reaffirming the right of the “defense to make any proof that he can produce by lawful witnesses” in cases of treason and capitol cases.  This right to present a defense has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the Supreme Court including in the 1967 opinion in Washington v. Texas, where the Court ruled that “the right to offer the testimony of witnesses and to compel their attendance, if necessary, is in plain terms the right to present the defense, the right to present the defendant’s version of the facts  . . . Just as an accused has the right to confront the prosecution’s witnesses for the purpose of challenging their testimony, he has the right to present his own witnesses to establish a defense.” 
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Number7 on January 20, 2020, 04:38:33 PM
The communist party (democrats) have played this dishonest game so long, the6 actually think they have the right to dictate what facts are legal to discuss.

Think about that.
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Steingar on January 20, 2020, 07:37:45 PM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Number7 on January 20, 2020, 07:45:11 PM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!

I'm sorry that you are so pathetically low information that you can;t tell the difference between bribe taking and work.
It's not surprising, but you are one sorry joke.
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Anthony on January 20, 2020, 07:47:12 PM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!

The Trump kids are all experienced and successful private sector business EXECUTIVES, and well educated at that.  What has Hunter Biden done, but be a colossal embarrassment and failure? 

The country is doing GREAT with Trump as President.  You're just all butt hurt over his unprecedented (Obama's favorite word lol!) SUCCESS. 
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Lucifer on January 20, 2020, 07:50:25 PM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!

 Too bad you're too ignorant to understand what's going on in current events.

 Back to that little protective bubble you live in.
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Number7 on January 20, 2020, 08:37:24 PM
Too bad you're too ignorant to understand what's going on in current events.

 Back to that little protective bubble you live in.

I’m sure he’s enjoying his delusions of mediocrity...
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: President in Exile YOLT on January 20, 2020, 11:29:07 PM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!
Once again you show yourself to be a complete fool. The only child of President Trump who has an official capacity at the White House (Ivanka) is as an adviser to the president. It's not a "do nothing" job . She takes no salary. She was very accomplished in business before Mr Trump won the election.

Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on January 21, 2020, 05:51:12 AM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!

TDS is strong with this one
Title: Re: Nadler: Hunter Biden Must Not Be Called
Post by: Little Joe on January 21, 2020, 06:36:43 AM
Your guys butthurt over Biden is pretty funny, seeing how the current officeholder installed his own entirely unqualified children into the halls of power. But that was OK because, er, ummm, Trump!
So you think that working to help your Father and your country is the same as selling your Father's influence to a foreign country for huge personal gain?  I disagree.