'Not evidence of anything': Dem lawmaker dismantles 'desperate' GOP impeachment arguments on CNN
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) took to CNN on Friday morning to demolish House Republicans' arguments for impeaching President Joe Biden, which center on unproven allegations that he laundered overseas bribes through the foreign business dealings of his son Hunter Biden.
This comes after the House Oversight Committee's first impeachment hearing, widely regarded as a disaster by observers as their own witnesses failed to put forward any pieces of evidence for their claims.
"Important pieces of context missing," said anchor Poppy Harlow. "One, that does not include any evidence that Joe Biden received any of the money. And two, that Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, says, look, that address, his father's address, the only permanent address he had, because he was living there for some of the time. However, do you think there are questions regarding that, that should be answered for transparency for the American people?"
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"No," said Goldman, himself an attorney who helped oversee former President Donald Trump's first impeachment before being elected to Congress. "I think that's — that in particular is a great example of the desperation that the Republicans have to link Joe Biden to Hunter Biden's activities. The fact that Hunter Biden used his father's address as his own permanent address as he was getting divorced, I think, moving out of his own home in a bad state of affairs, and had it on his driver's license, on many other accounts, shows nothing, nothing at all, about Joe Biden's involvement, and it's just another effort to gaslight the American public into thinking that Joe Biden had something to do with Hunter Biden's business interests. There's no evidence Joe Biden was involved whatsoever in that, that he knew about it, received any of it. The fact of his address being used is not evidence of anything."
All of this, continued Goldman, is "just another example of them misusing information and trying to turn it into something that it's not."
"Another example is all of these emails and texts that they show from 2017, which don't indicate any involvement of Joe Biden, but it's also when Joe Biden was not a president or vice president, or a Department of Justice email from 2020, that was the Trump Justice Department," said Goldman. "So all of these allegations just don't make any sense. The timeline makes no sense. And just the facts make no sense. And I think what really came out yesterday when the rubber had to meet the road, when the facts and the evidence were needed is, it's just not there. And I'm very proud, i'm very proud of the Democrats we have on that committee, because we made that very clear over and over, and especially how preposterous it is barreling us headlong into a shutdown that is of their own making by themselves."
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