Morning Joe mocks GOP 'incompetence' for calling impeachment witnesses who 'undermine' their case
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed the first Republican-led impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden.
GOP lawmakers struggled to make their case that the president benefitted from his son Hunter Biden's business dealings during the six-hour hearing, and the "Morning Joe" host was amazed that three witnesses Republicans called were unable to offer direct knowledge of any wrongdoing and made clear there was no impeachable evidence.
"It's really incredible and we've been talking about for some time about how this has been the gang that couldn't shoot straight," Scarborough said. "They've been promising one thing after another, nothing has happened. The fact that you would actually get people on that have actually been on Donald Trump's side through most of his presidency, you know, constitutional scholars who say, you got nothing here."
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Scarborough singled out House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) for calling such a disorganized hearing.
"You wonder the degree of incompetence that would have a chairman of any committee calling somebody who, again, is going to actually undermine your case," Scarborough said. "Well, here's a history of that chairman saying doesn't really have a whole lot there."
The experts Comer called agreed there was no constitutional basis for impeachment, and Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany said she was unable to find anyone credible who believed Biden should be.
"A slate of historians and constitutional experts I spoke to said there is absolutely no constitutional basis for this," Alemany said. "It's anathema to what the framers had in mind when they envisioned the impeachment lever, the glass box being broken to help in a time of crisis to hold the president accountable to and this is not that. This is the first time we are trying to, Republicans are trying to impeach someone for the crimes of a presidential relative and actions that were taken by a presidential relative before Joe Biden was even in the Oval Office."
Comer himself has been unable to say which policies Biden traded for cash and cannot even provide evidence that he got any foreign money, although he insists there's enough "smoke" to suggest the allegations were true.
"It would be funny if -- wait, it is funny," Scarborough said. "It's ridiculous, they're making fools of themselves. You don't think the Biden White House is loving watching this? This is just, and they keep doing it. My favorite part where a certain [Fox News] host goes wait a second, wait a second, you're telling me your informant has gone missing? No, this guy is covered in Iranian oil, hugging members of the Chinese communist party. Everything they're doing -- it's a clown show."
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