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House Republicans have been trying to impeach President Joe Biden since his first full day in office. On Wednesday, supported by Speaker Mike Johnson, they are expected to vote on legislation to open a formal impeachment inquiry, despite having made public no proof of any impeachable offenses.

Given the years they have spent on filing articles of impeachment against President Biden in his first two years, followed by a nearly-full year of three congressional committees investigating the President, if he had committed high crimes or misdemeanors, Republicans should be readily able to explain those offenses when asked. On Tuesday, in front of C-SPAN cameras as the House Rules Committee was drafting the impeachment inquiry legislation, and even on Fox News, Republicans seemed challenged to offer legitimate reasons why they need to formalize their impeachment inquiry, or to offer actual evidence of a crime.

“When you ask them, they cannot confirm that evidence exists,” reported CNN’s Lauren Fox on Tuesday, which the Biden campaign was only too happy to post on social media.

For example, take three-term U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), who serves in House GOP Leadership as the Chief Deputy Whip, and previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. An award-winning attorney, Rep. Reschenthaler is also a former member of the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG), served in Iraq, also served as an elected judge, and co-hosted a right-wing radio show.

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Congressman Reschenthaler has tremendous experience in law, politics, and public speaking, so he should have little difficulty explaining why he supports opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, and what high crimes and misdemeanors the President has committed.

Listen to this exchange between Congressman Reschenthaler and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO).

“What is the specific constitutional crime that you’re investigating?” Rep. Neguse asked.

“Well we’re having an inquiry, so we can do an investigation, and compel the production of witnesses and documents,” Congressman Reschenthaler replied.

“And what is the crime you’re investigating,” Neguse was forced to ask again.

“High crimes, misdemeanors, and bribery,” said Reschenthaler, again not answering the question.

“What high crimes and misdemeanors are you investigating?” Neguse asked for the third time.

“Look,” replied Reschenthaler. “I will, once I get time I will explain what we’re looking at and I will make the equivalency –

Also on Tuesday, this exchange between U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA).

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“You’ve got a president, Joe Biden, that’s cognitively gone,” declared Norman, who called for then-President Donald Trump to “declare marshall [sic] law” to stay in office after he lost the 2020 election. “I would wager a good bit of money, you get him with five doctors, they would tell you the man’s not there.”

“Those are the concerns,” Congressman Norman declared during Tuesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing.

“I do disageee vehemently with what you’ve said,” Rep. Scanlon replied. “Have you spent any time with Mr. Biden, with the President?”

“Good God, no,” Congressman Norman replied.

“Good God no,” Scanlon retorted. “You’ve been watching a little too much Fox News.”

Or, U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX), who, when asked by Fox News to name “the most significant two or three things you believe could prove a tie between these business dealings [of Hunter Biden] in lots of different countries, most of which are adversarial to the United States…and knowledge or action or receipt of funds received by his father,” his response is, “Joe Biden has been very soft on China.”

Claiming President Biden has made some “inexplicable” decisions on China, Fallon pointed to rescinding the Trump ban on TikTok, which has faced court challenges. President Biden instead ordered a wider national security review of foreign apps.

Congressman Fallon then dove into the GOP’s false claims about then-Vice President Biden, Ukraine, and Burisma. In late September of 2020, just weeks before Joe Biden was elected President, Senate Republicans published their report on Biden, Ukraine, and Burisma, concluding there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by the former Vice President. (Fact checks here, here, and here.)

Watch the videos above or at this link.

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Rogan on Epstein Files: ‘Looks Terrible’ for Trump

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Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan warned that the handling of the Epstein files “looks terrible” for President Donald Trump and his administration.

“During Tuesday and Thursday’s episodes, Rogan criticized redactions the Department of Justice made from the files,” The Hill reported.

“Who knows what f — — happens with all this Epstein files s — —,” he said, according to video of his streaming show. “It just keeps getting crazier and crazier and crazier and deeper and deeper.”

“Why would your name be redacted if you’re not a victim?” Rogan also asked. “Like, this is what’s crazy about all this. Like, how come you redact some people and you don’t redact other people?”

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“Like, what is this?” the podcaster continued. “This is not good. None of this is good for this administration. It looks f — — terrible. It looks terrible. It looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all a hoax. This is not a hoax. Like, did you not know?”

“Maybe he didn’t know if you want to be charitable? But this is definitely not a hoax. And if you’ve got redacted people’s names, and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victim. So what are you doing?”

“And how come all this s — — is not released?” Rogan asked.

 

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Far Right Extremist Leader Puts Trump on Notice Over Epstein Files

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Far-right extremist livestreamer Nick Fuentes — who leads a “Groyper” following of mostly young men and brands himself “America First” — is putting President Donald Trump on notice ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

“I won’t even consider voting in the midterms unless the Epstein Files are fully unredacted, mass deportations resume, and we don’t go to war with Iran,” wrote Fuentes, who has 1.2 million followers on the X social media platform.

Some of Trump’s MAGA allies were furious this week as Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected numerous questions in a congressional hearing on that very topic.

Even before Bondi’s widely-criticized performance, Fuentes had called for her impeachment.

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“Pam Bondi needs to be impeached,” he said on his February 9 Rumble show, “America First,” as The Daily Beast reported. “You lied about the existence of the files. You lied about unindicted collaborators and accomplices.”

Fuentes has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “white nationalist,” an “admirer of fascists,” and someone who “frequently relies on antisemitic tropes.”

According to the Anti-Defamation League, “Fuentes has used his platforms to make numerous antisemitic, racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments,” and spreads “white supremacist propaganda.”

President Trump “has not condemned Fuentes,” and Vice President JD Vance “has only criticized him for attacking his wife,” The Week reported last month. “But Vance also appears keen to avoid alienating young Fuentes supporters, who could help him secure the GOP presidential nomination in 2028.”

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Trump’s Pardon ‘Blizzard’ Grows With Clemency for Five Former NFL Players

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President Donald Trump issued another batch of pardons on Thursday, granting clemency to five former NFL players — the latest in what the Cato Institute has labeled a “blizzard” of pardons.

Trump’s pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson praised the move, which covers cases including those involving drug-related offenses and perjury convictions, according to The Guardian,

“Today, the President granted pardons to five former NFL players—Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, and the late great Dr. Billy Cannon,” wrote Johnson. “As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation.”

Johnson went on to applaud the president “for his continued commitment to second chances.”

“Mercy changes lives,” she added.

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The Cato Institute on Wednesday had said the scope and magnitude of Trump’s “blizzard” of pardons are “unprecedented.”

Before this latest round of pardons, Trump had issued 166 pardons — plus the mass pardons of about 1,500 people convicted on charges in connection with January 6 — since taking office just over one year ago. By comparison, President Joe Biden in four years issued 80 pardons.

“In other words,” Cato’s Dan Greenberg wrote, “even putting aside the rioters’ collective pardon, Trump is now issuing pardons at eight times the rate Biden did.”

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Greenberg put Trump’s pardons into several categories.

He noted that Biden’s pardons eliminated about $680,000 in penalties owed to victims or the federal government, whereas Trump’s pardons have wiped away about $1.5 billion.

Greenberg also said that “Trump has normalized the pardoning of disgraced politicians, such as former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez (who orchestrated a spree of state-sponsored drug trafficking leading to a 45-year prison term),” and others, such as Nevada legislator Michele Fiore, Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins, Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada, and Arkansas legislator Jeremy Hutchinson.

Other concerns Greenberg noted are that aspects of some of Trump’s pardons “set off alarm bells for self-corruption—either of the president or of his associates.”

Finally, “Trump has increasingly focused on providing pardons to his campaign supporters who stretched or broke the law, such as John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis.”

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