Lindsey Graham Warns GOP Will Investigate Whistleblower, Biden After Impeachment Trial

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Lindsey Graham Warns GOP Will Investigate Whistleblower, Biden After Impeachment Trial

By DANIEL POLITI at Slate

FEB 02, 20204:26 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/lindsey-graham-warns-investigations-whistleblower-biden-impeachment-trial.html

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Republicans are getting ready to flip the tables and launch their own investigations after the Senate acquits President Donald Trump. Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that the Senate Intelligence Committee will call the whistleblower whose complaint ended up launching the impeachment inquiry against Trump while the Foreign Relations Committee will investigate Joe Biden.

“The Senate Intel committee under Richard Burr has told us that we will call the whistleblower,” Graham said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Why is it important? I want to know how all this crap started.” Graham went on to say that he wants to know what ties the whistleblower who first raised a red flag regarding Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has with Democrats. “If the whistleblower is a former employee of, associate of, Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year and a half ago, I think that would be important. If the Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again,” Graham said.

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Graham said that in addition to the investigation into the whistleblower, the Foreign Relations Committee will be looking into Biden’s alleged conflicts of interest because of his son’s work on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. “I’m gonna bring in State Department officials and ask them, ‘Why didn’t you do something about the obvious conflict of interest Joe Biden had?’” Graham said. “Joe Biden’s effort to combat corruption in the Ukraine became a joke.” The senator from South Carolina assured that he “can prove beyond any doubt that Joe Biden’s effort in the Ukraine to root out corruption was undercut because he let his son sit on the board of the most corrupt company in the Ukraine and we’re not gonna give him a pass on that.”

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Under Graham’s telling three committees will be launching investigations after the impeachment trial is over. “Senate Intel will deal with the whistleblower, Foreign Relations committee will deal with Joe Biden’s conflict of interest, the Judiciary Committee will deal with all things FISA,” he said.


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This sounds Trumpian. I wonder if the Senate will actually do this.

[2naSalit]

1. I think they're bluffing.

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They now underestimate our anger and it's going to really hurt when it hits them, Lindsey in particular.

[Roland99]

17. Ayup. Fodder for their brain dead cultist followers

They won’t do shit

[sheshe2]

2. LG didn't want any questions answered at the Impeachment trial.

Now he demands answers...

I want to know how all this crap started.

Well dear, the Dems were trying to give you those answers and you refused witnesses and documents.

Now you want to spend millions investigating what was already investigated. Just not to your liking.

FUGG THE HELL OFF!

[Midnight Writer]

3. So since the whistle blower is protected by Federal Law and is presumably a government employee,

will he be represented by Government lawyers? At taxpayer expense?

And won't these lawyers, as employees of Trump and Barr, advise the whistle blower to refuse to cooperate, withhold all evidence, and fight them in a series of Federal Court cases that could take years?

[JDC]

4. Think Benghazi in a condensed timeframe

It's all about smashing your opponent with a false narrative. Fox will push it 24/7.

Chants of "lock him up" coming to a rally near you very soon. No doubt in my mind.

[mitch96]

16. !! BENGAHAZI !! nt

[2naSalit]

20. I think this could be a new defense term.

From now on, when RWers start throwing conspiracy theory shit at me, I think I'll just start saying stuff that includes Benghazi in nearly every sentence, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[mitch96]

24. Just like "swift boating" came into our lexicon... nt

[Hekate]

5. Drop dead, Lindsay, you spineless worm

[OneMoreCupOfCoffee]

6. Is there a lower life form?

I think not.

[Zolorp]

7. Everybody should refuse to appear

If Trumpites don't have to appear, nobody does.

[SCantiGOP]

8. And if you don't control the White House,Senate or House

Your prissy little investigation isn’t going to mean much, is it you miserable excuse for a human.
Very appropriate that he holds Strom Thurmond’s old seat.

[dweller]

9. looks like somebody has

his knickers in a gordian knot ... parnas may have more to reveal

✌🏼

[keithbvadu2]

10. So their requests/demands for people/documents can be ignored?

So their requests/demands for people/documents can be ignored?

[Hassler]

11. Biden should tell lying Leningrad Lindseed to piss off.

Chump has set the precident to ignore all subpoenas.

[madaboutharry]

12. This is a bluff.

Lindsey Graham has been implicated in this scandal. He is trying to look innocent and deflect. He is a fraud.

[moondust]

13. Like the Clintons?

A four-year partisan witch hunt by Starr that very likely would have continued indefinitely until he found something/anything?

Or the endless Hillary email and Benghazi witch hunts that were all about smearing her ahead of, during, and after her Presidential run that Bozo the White House Clown and his circus are still using to smear her despite exoneration?

Lindsey and the gang are going to severely abuse their power again to conduct yet more endless partisan witch hunts of not just the Bidens but whomever they want to try to weaken politically because...when you're a Republican hack, it's what you do.

[EndlessWire]

33. This is why

we need to impeach a second time. Occupy them with their own troubles. Maybe impeach some of them.

Notice how he said that they would do this when Trump's impeachment is over. Well, let his impeachment start over.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. And none need to show up even if subpoenaed.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Another waste of taxpayer dollars--if they actually go through with it.

And, like all of their other "investigations", they'll come up empty-handed. Benghazi, anyone?

Hey, asshole! We already know how "all this crap" started. It started because your dear leader tried to extort the President of Ukraine into making an announcement about a phony investigation into the Bidens. Even your own colleagues admit that he did it. So, fuck off.

[Bettie]

18. At that time they will also

investigate Ivanka and all those patents suddenly given after various visits by Twittler with heads of state, right?

[2naSalit]

21. Especially her voting machine empire....nt

[tavernier]

19. Trials and subpoenas aren't a thing anymore.

You’ve set a precedent.

We are all just governing ourselves in this new America, ruled by a monarch who looks like a cheese doodle and loves the great state of Kansas because they are football winners.

We’re all a little like Dorothy and Totto this morning, wondering exactly where the yellow brick road will take us.
But the last thing we want to see are his flying monkeys, so buzz off Lindsey.

[spanone]

22. The House should investigate Lindsey Graham

[crickets]

34. +1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. They are always quick to attack the accusers

they don't seem to care much what they're accusing the real perps of.

[Hotler]

25. Hey Lindsey, have you stopped touching little boys yet? nt

[riversedge]

26. ha ha. conflict of interest?? Then bring in Trumps adult kids--and Jared.

..........Graham said that in addition to the investigation into the whistleblower, the Foreign Relations Committee will be looking into Biden’s alleged conflicts of interest because of his son’s work on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. “I’m gonna bring in State Department officials and ask them, ‘Why didn’t you do something about the obvious conflict of interest Joe Biden had?’” Graham said. “Joe Biden’s effort to combat corruption in the Ukraine became a joke.” The senator from South Carolina assured that he “can prove beyond any doubt that Joe Biden’s effort in the Ukraine to root out corruption was undercut because he let his son sit on the board of the most corrupt company in the Ukraine and we’re not gonna give him a pass on that.”

[CousinIT]

27. "we want to know how all this crap started". Easy: Trump bribed Ukraine.

That's it.

Impugning the whistleblower is just shooting the messenger while letting the criminal off scot-free. Biden had nothing to do w/ it as has been well-explained numerous times:

[Mike Nelson]

28. Maybe they should investigate...

... Lindsay? Seriously, if this were the House, investigations into Biden would have already started. Not sure about the Senate, but it's possible. More likely Barr will start something... it's a given.

[Ilsa]

31. Yep. I don't think he is really LG. He's an imposter.

The real one is either locked up in a gulag, or his balls are.

Rs that used to fight back are all milquetoast now. Stepford pols.

[Vogon_Glory]

29. When I think of Lindsey Graham these days

I’m reminded of the fact that the 1860 South Carolina senatorial delegation were more aware of what they were doing to the country.

[kentuck]

30. Trump and his regime are trying to intimidate the Democrats into stopping all investigations.

That is their goal, imo.

[Johonny]

32. But by not impeaching Trump, the senate declared their calls to testify powerless

why would anyone show up to talk to him? If the presidents men are above the law, there is no rule of law.