They’re Making This Too Easy

Hannity: What should the penalty be for people that purposely lie, mislead, propagandize.. pic.twitter.com/2g9JiGdNkw

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 9, 2023

Really?

Jim Jordan seems to have forgotten, like so many Republicans are wont to do, that the Trump administration was "the government" in 2020 and the FBI director was handpicked by Trump pic.twitter.com/vVFzt6uv61

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 9, 2023

racking my brains to remember who the president was in 2020 and who picked the FBI director pic.twitter.com/5mb1i3XKWL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 9, 2023

Ya gotta love the caption describing the SOTU without playing a moment of the audio (there weren’t three seconds of “mumbling” the entire night). And not only was Trump President during these terrible times Vance bemoans (Trump colluded to defeat himself!), but where is this “evidence” he speaks of? Not a wisp of it was presented in the House today, though the witnesses were threatened with prosecution for “election interference.”

As the GOP committee members were reminded, statements by members is not testimony. Which this guy found out the hard way:

How can a US congressional representative be so unprepared for a hearing? How? How does he not know that the now famous 5 tweets that the Biden campaign asked Twitter to take down in 2020 were nude photos of Hunter Biden?

Or does he think Twitter should have left them up? https://t.co/r6BB1mIJwb

— Hutch (@hutchinson) February 9, 2023

The hearsay rule also doesn’t apply in Congress (attorney/client privilege does), so the witness can testify as to what he’s read in the media, not just his personal knowledge. The questions are NOT testimony, which is why the member fails so badly. It’s bad enough this representative was so clueless about basic facts; but what was the committee expecting from these witnesses? The House GOP is so incompetent they can’t manage their own conspiracy theories.

This is going to be fun.