By RYAN MILLS
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, testifying during the first House impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, said Thursday that while Washington, D.C., is “awash” with influence peddling, the “size and complexity” of the allegations against Biden and his family are unprecedented.
House leaders, he said, have a “duty” to determine if the president was involved in a pay-to-play scheme.
Turley was one of four witnesses — three Republicans and one Democrat — who testified during the hearing. None of the people who testified were direct fact witnesses to any crimes or to an alleged Biden-family scheme.
Republicans claim that there is a mountain of evidence that Biden’s family members, including his son Hunter and brother James, enriched themselves by selling the “Biden brand,” access to Joe Biden when he was vice president and a candidate for president, to foreigners.
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio called it a “tale as old as time” and the “oldest story in the world.”
Turley, who previously testified in the impeachments of presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, said that comments by Hunter Biden and the “labyrinth of accounts and companies” used by the president’s family members to transfer money make the inquiry credible.
“The question is, did the president know? Did he encourage this type of corruption?” Turley said during questioning by Representative Glenn Grothman (R., Wis.). “You have to begin with the recognition that what Hunter Biden and his associates were doing was corrupt.”
Grothman asked Turley whether there was any precedent for the scale of foreign influence peddling Biden is alleged to have participated in.
“Influence peddling is the favorite form of corruption in Washington, D.C., and this city is awash in it,” Turley responded. “But have I seen anything of this size and complexity? No.”
Grothman also asked if the House is “obligated to have this inquiry.”
“I believe it is your duty to determine if the president is involved in what is a known form of corruption,” Turley said. “I believe many people have accepted this was influence peddling in its rawest form.”
Turley also said that he doesn’t believe that the evidence that exists now supports impeaching Joe Biden, but that the House investigation has uncovered enough to justify the inquiry to address unanswered questions. “The only way you’ll be able to get that information is to follow this evidence,” he said. “What I suggest is you do so without any prejudice, you do so without any assumptions. In fact, I hope that the president will be able to show that there is no such nexis [between his family’s schemes and him]. But you won’t get those answers until you ask these questions.”
Republicans used the hearing to display questionable text message between Hunter and Jim Biden, and complicated organization charts of Biden-family businesses.
Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant and a Republican witness, said the charts show “a very complicated structure of entities that are interrelated and would give me concern.”
The real ones who should be on Trial are both he Clintons Obama, Biden, Soros and Bragg and oh yes Gates and Dr. Fauci
The biden crime family is guilty of treason. Millions upon millions of dollars given to the biden crime family in a pay for play scheme. biden has spent his entire political career grifting from who ever held out a bag of cash.
Democrats are liars. They lie as their default reaction. They would lie if they had a choice between lying and breathing. Worse, they KNOW they are lying and they KNOW they will not be called out by the Ministry of Propaganda.
This statement is already proven a lie. Hunter was getting $1 million a year to be a conduit between Burisma and his VP daddy, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden (note the ALIASES used on government emails in communications with Hunter). Hunter states he had to kick back HALF of that income to “Pop” (aka Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden). When the Ukrainian chief prosecutor, Shokin, was snooping around the corruption within Burisma, Burisma officials told Hunter to do his job; mobilize VP Daddy to put the kibosh on the investigations. Immediately afterwards, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden goes to Ukraine and holds $1 billion over their heads, demanding Shokin is fired. Well, son of a bitch…. that’s exactly what happened. And all the corruption lived happily ever after… until Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden could no longer provide influence.
Meanwhile, according to Hunter, he was paying Pop’s bills, too. So not only was Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden fully aware and a participant in the corrupt operations of the Biden Crime Family, he was a recipient of “benefits” in the way of, at the very least, Hunter paying the bills for Pop.
Can Rat Skin or anyone else tell me the “smoking gun” used to impeach Trump… twice? Those were conducted on the thinnest of premises and almost all formality and procedure was disregarded to expedite the ongoing extension of the coup against Trump.