On Friday morning, Americans woke up to the news that over 6,000 Americans have died from covid-19; unemployment numbers were shockingly high for March and are expected to be even higher in April; and the country’s medical professionals on the frontlines of the covid-19 pandemic are still forced to reuse old masks and other protective gear, if they have gear at all. On top of that, non-existent rent suspensions and days of busy signals at the state unemployment office have left countless people frayed, broke, and stressed over what’s to come. Luckily, the Republican-controlled Senate had these struggling citizens in mind and they decided to give what the American people really want: A full-fledged investigation into Hunter Biden.
Politico reports that the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee is moving forward with a probe against Joe Biden’s son, who was on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma and is accused of being a useful idiot for the State Department during the Obama era. And now the Dems and Republicans are beefin’.
From Politico:
The probe, which Democrats vigorously oppose, has fueled tension among the Senate’s ranks, even breaking out into a rare and previously unreported verbal altercation between senators during a classified briefing.
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“While the chairman is primarily focused on the once-in-a-generation crisis we’re experiencing, our oversight staff is continuing to push ahead with their work. Nothing has changed in our long-term plans for our investigations,” said Austin Altenburg, a spokesman for the committee’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).
In fact, a Senate staffer working on the probe explicitly told one witness’ legal team several weeks ago — just before the wave of lockdowns — that the coronavirus pandemic would not impede the committee’s probe, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Biden controversy was the basis of the Trump-Ukraine impeachment clusterfuck, which was a political loss for the Democrats and did little to hinder the Republicans’ craven obsession with making Democratic Presidential nominees the center of federal probes during election years. While Hunter’s position at Burisma reeks of nepotism, any reasonable person would agree that this shit should at the bottom of any elected official’s priorities at the moment.
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