Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) really nails it here:
- What Republicans are doing: “Distract, deflect, dissemble…I think this hearing’s all about ‘look over here, not over there’.”
- And then, sarcastically: “Shouldn’t we be concerned about all those Biden towers all over the world where foreign partnerships were formed and influence was used here in the US? I’ve seen these towers in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in Turkey. I even saw one in Chicago. Shouldn’t that be a source of concern of this committee in terms of influence of foreign and domestic when Biden became president…Well, was there anyone who DID have them…could you tell us…give me the name…ah, thank you [it was Donald Trump].”
- And then even more sarcastically: “When President Biden appointed his son to manage U.S. foreign policy both in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East – by the way, a son who couldn’t qualify for getting a security clearance, but President Biden apparently granted it anyhow – and then after leaving the White House getting a $2 billion deal…shouldn’t that be of concern to us that maybe a sweetheart deal occurred with the blessing of the president, with foreign money, and shouldn’t we look into Hunter Biden for that, given the fact that the handled Middle East peace in the White House…oh crumb, I got that wrong again” (because all of this was really about Donald Trump and Jared Kushner – Connolly was being scathingly sarcastic).
- “Well let’s see, I heard again – I think it was Professor Turley talking about, you know, because he’s not prejudging of course, but he’s just SUGGESTING that maybe we want to look into criminal activity like obstruction, fraud and abuse of power. So let’s take fraud. So shouldn’t we be concerned that a NY judge just found President Biden’s organization committing fraud every year for the last 10 or 15 years and that…that Biden organization is now subject to dismemberment and dismantlement because of the fraudulent activity…Mr. Trump again! And in this case, we’re not speculating, a judge actually made that ruling? Huh…”Shouldn’t we be concerned about the personal – I mean, while we’re at it – behavior behavior of President Trump or President Biden be found guilty of sexual assault and defamation associated with that activity…with Mr. Trump again!”
- “I just think that one of the reasons we’re here is because SOMEBODY has been indicted in four different locales, on four different sets of concerns, with I think 81, 91 actual counts, and has been found guilty in two civil proceedings, one involving sexual behavior and one on actual corporate fraudulent activity. And we don’t want to talk about any of that. We want to speculate about discredited testimony from discredited witnesses…”
Connolly: “Shouldn’t we concerned about all those Biden towers all over the world where foreign partnerships were formed and influence was used here in the US? I’ve seen these towers in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in Turkey. I’ve even seen one in Chicago.” pic.twitter.com/U10K2K5JSQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2023
Brilliant stuff here from Connolly pic.twitter.com/F3rZlBmUe8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2023
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