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Subject: The House Oversight Committee - Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:28 pm
2-8-2023
Heated feud erupts as Dem blasts GOP chairman over '100 percent false' claims about Hunter Biden.
Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) clashed with House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday over allegations of corruption involving President Joe Biden and his son.
Goldman took aim at a New York Post article highlighted by Comer alleging that Hunter Biden introduced a Ukrainian businessman to his father, who was vice president at the time, and said he learned as House impeachment manager during the first inquiry against Donald Trump that those claims were "categorically false."
"The very first paragraph says Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company," Goldman said. "That is false, 100 percent false."
Comer asked whether he was sure, and Goldman said the impeachment inquiry found the prosecutor in question was fired because he was not investigating corruption in Ukraine, which may or may not have involved the Burisma firm for which the younger Biden had worked in the 2010s.
"The fact that Joe Biden fired, consistent with every U.S. policy and every European country, the prosecutor general in Ukraine because he did not prosecute corruption, including at companies like Burisma, has been proven over and over and over," Goldman said.
"If you want to know who actually prosecuted Burisma, chairman Comer, you should talk to British authorities, because they were the ones who were prosecuting Burisma, and they couldn't get any information from the Ukrainian prosecutor general, so that's why he was fired."
"So, right off the top, this very first paragraph of this so-called bombshell story is completely false," he added.
Goldman said the basis of GOP claims about Biden corruption were centered around the fact that he met with a foreign businessman, which the New York Democrat said was common among elected officials, but he said no evidence had shown they made any illegal or corrupt agreements.
"Chairman Comer, you have said in your opening statement that Joe Biden lied to the American people," Goldman said. "That is all bold, bold accusation, and so far we've seen no actual evidence of any lies or any support for Joe Biden being involved in anything having to do with Ukraine other than promoting U.S. foreign policy,
I hope you are not abusing the power as chairman of this committee and that you are not wasting taxpayer dollars on a fishing expedition into the civilian child of a president for political purposes."
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Subject: Re: The House Oversight Committee - Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:39 pm
2=8-2023
Jamie Raskin drops the hammer on Republicans after their Oversight hearing turns up 'absolutely nothing'.
In a fiery statement concluding today's Twitter testimony at the House Oversight Committee, ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tore apart the entire premise of the hearing and chided Republican members for failing to focus on more serious problems in social media.
The hearing, which included three former Twitter executives, focused on the decision by the company to briefly suppress a New York Post story detailing information about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the election as disinformation — a decision the company has freely admitted was a mistake, as many of the details of the story subsequently proved to be true. Republicans have claimed, without any evidence, that the FBI or the Biden campaign pressured Twitter into suppressing the story.
"I want to start with a simple point," said Raskin. "We have members threatening witnesses with arrest and prosecution for clearly imaginary offenses, or at least offenses that might make sense in their mind, but I don't know what they would be," said Raskin.
"Twitter is a private, First Amendment protected media entity, and you make your own decisions, like Fox News — and I might get kicked off of Fox News or they might not cover me — or the Wall Street Journal or MSNBC. I've got no constitutional right to go there, so I think there is legal fallacy and logical fallacy that pervades most of the questioning today."
"Under our First Amendment, there's state action requirement; there is no state action here," said Raskin. "Now, there's an attempt to, perhaps, jerry-rig some state action by claiming, well, it was really the FBI that committed whatever offense was there, but what do we have in terms of what we found today?
Today's witnesses, each and every one, testified no U.S. governmental official directed any of them to censor, remove, or take down the New York Post story. That was their mistake. Two, today's witnesses testified the Biden campaign did not direct Twitter to take action against the New York Post story.
And three, the whole hearing was predicated on the idea the FBI directed Twitter to take down the New York Post story to protect Biden, but, once again, not a single witness testified the FBI even communicated with Twitter about the New York Post story."
The upshot, said Raskin, is that "this has been a wild cyber goose chase all day. It has turned up absolutely nothing."
"But there was one serious point made by our witness, Ms. Navaroli," continued Raskin. "The violence and the chaos that was wracked upon this institution not far from where we sit today on January 6, the attempt to topple a presidential election and install someone who had not been elected as president, was facilitated by Twitter and other social media entities and, at Twitter at least, the brass specifically rejected the pleas of employees to take seriously all of the signs and clues of coming violence and the insurrectionary action that took place. That's a serious problem that we're going to have to deal with in a serious hearing."
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Subject: Re: The House Oversight Committee - Wed Feb 08, 2023 10:30 pm
*shrug* ... He's not the only one at the hearing with something to say ...and why is he wearing a bandana?
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Subject: Re: The House Oversight Committee - Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:50 pm
Temple, your subject line is very deceiving - the House Oversight Committee is comprised of 20 Democrats, and 25 Republicans.
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