Another Shady Impeachment Witness Exposes The GOP's Twisted Game

And it's not just the impeachment that's designed to win votes through mass deception

Most credible news coverage of the House GOP’s retaliatory impeachment of Joe Biden will emphasize the baselessness of the proceedings. 

“Lacking support and evidence, the GOP-led impeachment inquiry against President Biden continued to sputter out, even as House Republicans on Wednesday held a hearing that featured witnesses who reiterated thin allegations that members of the Biden family capitalized financially on their father’s name,” wrote Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany after last week’s entry.

These kinds of reports capture the conundrum national political reporters face all too often in the Trump era: spectacles that must be covered, because they invoke official powers or involve powerful leaders, but are at bottom baseless or deceptive. 

For my part, though, the most revelatory moment on Wednesday didn’t have anything to do with questions of evidence or the lack thereof. It came several hours in, when Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) dared oversight committee Republicans to hold a vote on Biden’s impeachment right then and there. 

Moskowitz’s purpose was to prove that Republicans know they don’t have the goods on Biden, and I’d say he accomplished it, but the revealing part was this interruption from Tony Bobulinski—a GOP witness and operative who was once business partners with Hunter Biden, but has been thick as thieves with Donald Trump and the Trump campaign for many years now.