On Friday, Dec. 27, former Vice President Joe Biden said that he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in President Trump’s upcoming Senate impeachment trial.
In an interview with the editorial board of the De Moines Register in Iowa, Biden claimed that if he were issued a subpoena to appear before the Senate, any testimony he would give would only draw attention away from Trump’s alleged wrongdoing and would effectively let the president off the hook.
“What are you going to cover?” Biden said to Register Executive Editor Carol Hunter in response to a question about the possibility of his participation in the trial. “You guys are going to cover for three weeks anything that I said. And (Trump’s) going to get away.”
“You guys buy into it all the time. Not a joke …” he added. “Think what it’s about. It’s all about what he does all the time, his entire career. Take the focus off. This guy violated the Constitution. He said it in the driveway of the White House. He acknowledged he asked for help.”
The Democrat-controlled House impeached Trump earlier this month for “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” related to his dealings with Ukraine. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Biden Forced to Clarify His Statement on Subpoena
However, soon after the former VP made those statements, he was forced to clarify his position – which as stated – meant he would be breaking the law.
By Saturday, Biden was singing a different tune.
“I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests,” he tweeted.
“But I am just not going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony in the impeachment trial. That is the point I was making yesterday and I reiterate: this impeachment is about Trump’s conduct, not mine,” he said.
Later on Saturday, during a town hall in Iowa, Biden said he “would obey any subpoena sent to me.”
“The question is, did Trump do his job,” he added.
ALL MUST OBEY A SUBPOENA! AND SHOW UP AS REQUESTED!!! wHAT IS DISCUSSED DURING SUCH A MEETING IS ANOTHER STORY
EVERYONE MUST OBEY A SUBPOENA AND APPEAR AS REQUIRED. wHAT AND HOW THE MATTERS ARE DISCUSSED IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING.ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A LEGAL EXPERT TO KNOW SUCH A BASIC FACT I AM NOT A LEGAL EXPERT, JUST AN EDUCATED PERSON.
Good for him!!!????
Oh yes, Biden WILL comply, no more specialPrivilege people in America.
Biden has turned punk like. He’s strictly s Citizen like the rest of us. He’s nothing more than that, anymore!!
So Quid pro Joes handlers sat him down and gave him a new script to follow. What the old pedophile fails to realize is that his conduct is the reason that President Z of the Ukraine was asked to look into potential corruption. Using the threat of withholding American taxpayer funding to the Ukraine unless they fire the prosecutor who is investigating your son and the corrupt company that he works for( let’s go to the video tape) is not only the definition of a quid pro quo, it also defines extortion. Hunter Biden even admitted in an interview that he had NO EXPERIENCE and that if he wasn’t the son of the vice president that he would never have been offered that no show job. ( Hopefully Pelosi and her son are next on the corruption exposure chopping block with his no show executive board job that he is not qualified for but one of her major donors gave home anyway).
On the subject of this whole quid pro quo nonsense, I would love to find a politician who has not been involved in some sort of quid pro quo in their “career”. They have all traded this for that— for example: voting for something either in exchange for the other party voting for something you are pushing or in exchange for adding something on to their proposal. They ALL do that ALL THE TIME. They add riders and addendums to each other’s bills and requisitions in exchange for votes and approvals. So if they want to push this angle then I say prosecute every one of them as they have all done the same thing.
I am still waiting for investigations into Congress 99% of them blonde hung from a rope shot in the head or in prison
Trump is still Impeached and now he can’t pardon himself. Fq trump
Biden is a joke. Sad. Both he and his son is guilty.
“Did Trump do his job”, said a leader of 275 democrats, who haven’t done theirs in at least 4 years…
Biden is dancing around one question calling voters fat or too old to vote him he don’t like their votes . He lies after lie
Dumbass- if you’re called to be a witness YOU HAVE TO GO! It’s obvious he does not want to be asked any questions BECAUSE JOEK OBIDEN HAS MUCH TO HIDE !
Crazy Joe,
Did you not durning you time as VP use your influence to get your son Hunter a $50k per month job with an energy company?
Crazy Joe,
Did you during your tenure as VP order amUkraine to fire one of their own investigators who was about to investigate your Son? And threatened to withhold funds from the US?