The House Republican impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden fell flat once again in a hearing that wasn't even carried live on Fox News, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough identified the major mistake GOP lawmakers made.
Democrats undercut the credibility of another GOP witness with troubling ties to Russia, while former Rudy Giuliani associate and convicted fraudster Lev Parnas testified that the allegations that formed the basis of the inquiry were manufactured by Russian intelligence officials, and the "Morning Joe" host said Republicans should have let the case play out as a whisper campaign instead of subjecting the evidence to real scrutiny.
"If they had just kept this on Fox News and Newsmax and kept this on podcasts and kept this in the general ether – 'Oh, the Biden crime family,'" Scarborough said. "If you had just kept having Supreme Court justices' wives talking about arresting the Biden crime family and putting them in barges off Gitmo and allowed that to grow, it would have continued to impact the campaign. It has, it impacted the polls. This really hurt Joe Biden in the trustworthiness."
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"But they made a mistake," he added. "They brought the lies out into the sunlight – talk about the best disinfectant, it's withered away in the sun. Isn't that fascinating? When you just trade in rumors the way that Trump and so many of his supporters do, you can get away with it, lies and conspiracy theories. The second you try to prove it, you get your political, like -- you just get knocked to the ground politically."
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