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Graham: Senate will have enough v**es to call Bidens at impeachment trial
January 29, 2020 by Ben Marquis

Following the conclusion of opening arguments from President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team on Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stopped to speak with reporters for a few moments about what he had heard thus far and how he thought the remainder of the trial would play out.

On the hot topic of calling additional witnesses to testify, Graham offered a prediction that his fellow Republicans had the 51 v**es necessary to issue subpoenas for former Vice President Joe Biden, his son H****r, the so-called “whistleblower,” and even a Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer alleged to have coordinated anti-Trump efforts with Ukrainian officials in the 2016 e******n, the Washington Examiner reported.
Graham’s prediction

There has been much discussion prior to and throughout the impeachment proceedings in the Senate about Democrat demands for additional witnesses to be called. While Republicans have been largely resistant to calling any witnesses at all, it has nonetheless been put forward that if Democrats are able to garner the v**es necessary to call the witnesses they want, Republicans will counter by calling witness of their own.

Graham immediately made it clear to reporters that, as far as he was concerned, he had heard enough to proceed to a final v**e on acquittal or conviction without hearing from any additional witnesses, though he noted, “However, if people want witnesses, we’re gonna get a lot of witnesses.”

He went on to suggest that he had heard and seen sufficient evidence of alleged wrongdoing by the Bidens — as well as by a DNC staffer in 2016 — to justify President Trump’s requests to Ukraine for investigations. A moment later, pressed by a reporter, Graham said, “I’ll make a prediction: There’ll be 51 Republican v**es to call H****r B***n, Joe Biden, the whistleblower, and the DNC staffer, at a very minimum.”
Dem double standard

Sen. Graham suggested that, in light of what he’d learned, “it would have been wrong for President Trump not to pursue this issue,” in relation to the Bidens’ lucrative and questionable business dealings in Ukraine with a corrupt energy firm known as Burisma Holdings.

“You have to be willfully blind and say that Democratic misconduct doesn’t matter to you not to believe that the president had a good reason to ask the Ukraine to look into the Biden affair,” Graham said, according to Breitbart. “As much as I like Joe Biden, he needs to answer questions of why he allowed his son to continue to receive millions of dollars from Burisma when he should’ve known it was a conflict of interest.

“If a Republican had been in that same situation, you would be all over all of us wanting to know why we’re not calling these people as witnesses,” he added. “So as much as I like Joe Biden, he has to answer for his time as the leader of anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.”
“Tsunami of evidence”

Prior to all of that, Graham said of the Bidens: “There’s not a scintilla of evidence that the Bidens’ connection to the Ukraine was inappropriate, there’s a tsunami of evidence.

“So the House managers told the Senate ‘this is baseless, it’s been debunked.’ And I think the defense team yesterday made a damning indictment of what H****r B***n and Joe Biden allowed to happen, and it’s not in America’s interest to let this ever happen again in the Ukraine where H****r B***n basically turned it into an ATM machine,” he added.

Sen. Graham made it abundantly clear that he would prefer to move ahead and conclude the impeachment trial without calling any witnesses.

But if the issue of witnesses is nonetheless something that his colleagues choose to pursue, Graham pledged to make certain that witnesses who could bolster the president’s defense — by proving he was justified in seeking investigations — would absolutely be on the roster of those called.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Except for the damage this ridiculous impeachment process is doing to the country of love to see all witnesses called. The Democrats would be devastated.

Liberty Tree

I am still in favor or ending it now with no witnesses.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Yea. Me too. Just because the damage being done to our Republic. This process looks more like a game show than something serious.

Liberty Tree

Agreed, the American people have tuned it out.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Or it may turn into a massive draining of the swamp critters. One guilty will lead to more going down. A huge can of worms.

Kevyn

The republicans have the v**es to call only Bidens and ignore the real fact witnesses like Bolton, let them have at it. Let them call who they want as long as sworn witnesses and evidence is allowed otherwise all you get from Trumps defense team is lies, put them under oath and all bets are off.

Tug484

Bidens campaign people are giving mainstream the stories on what to say to make people believe he isn't guilty of anything.

bahmer

Amen and Amen I am sick and tired of this farce of a trial by the democrats. I turned it off shortly after it began because it was so dishonest and I couldn't stand Schiff (pencil neck).

roy

So now if trump doesnt get relected,then you will have a democrates president that can do anything they want and it want be iegal according to trumps lawerys. So what will you think about that.?

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I think you need to learn how to make sense.

Mikeyavelli

Same as Obama. Valerie Jarrett did everything she wanted and Obama sold it with his jackassy grin and signed it into law, on Christmas Eve no less, which is not a holiday for Barack Hussein Obama.