The phony House impeachment investigation

 Just a reminder, when Trump was impeached each time, it was based on evidence already available and well-known at the start:

• for the first impeachment, he pressured a foreign government to manufacture a political scandal to help his reelection;

• for the second impeachment, he conspired to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 election.

Here are the claims I've seen against Biden:

• The homes that the Bidens own can't be afforded on a congressional or Senate salary;

• It's not normal for family members to receive millions of dollars from overseas interests;

• We have the vice president on record saying that he had a Ukranian prosecutor fired.

Reality check:

• In 1974, Biden bought a home in Greenville for $185,000. Monthly payments on that were maybe a little high for a Senate salary of $44,000, but well within normal. In 1996 he sold the house for $1.2 million and used the money to buy a smaller house in Greenville that was, at the time, easily affordable on a Senate salary of $133,000. Then, a few years ago, using money from speaking fees, he bought a vacation home in Rehoboth Beach for $2.7 million. That's it. Biden currently owns two homes, one that was easily affordable on a Senate salary and a second that was paid for out of post-vice-presidential largesse. There's nothing here;

• "Family members" have indeed received a lot of money doing lobbying for overseas interests. You can decide for yourself what you think of this, but there isn't an atom of evidence that money went to Joe Biden. His tax returns have been public record for years;

• Joe Biden did indeed brag that he had forced Ukraine to fire its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, in 2016. At the time, however, Shokin was not investigating Burisma or any other business related to Hunter Biden. Quite the contrary: Shokin was widely known—both in Europe and the US—to be corrupt and it was Obama administration policy that he should be fired as a condition of aid to Ukraine. There's nothing here.

Look, this "impeachment investigation" is obviously quid pro quo for the two Trump impeachments. McCarthy knows he has to approve the investigation or he'll be deposed by the Freedom Caucus crazies, and he's hoping this red meat will distract them from a gov't shutdown. You don't waste taxpayer money to hold house hearings and demand hours of White House testimony because you're "just askin' qwestions." https://jabberwocking.com/scott-perry-explains-impeachment/