This has become one of these "have you no shame" sort of situations. Apparently something like this is no longer even needed to be hidden. The Administration expects not only that the media should take their "side" but that people will no longer care that our government is telling the media what to write?
How does this work when our courts have chastised the relationship between our Government and social media and told everyone involved that such influence is unconstitutional and illegal? So instead of demanding social media censor certain information and push other information, they are demanding that the legacy media do it instead.
The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime.
“It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the letter, according to a draft copy obtained by CNN.
The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” will be sent to executives helming the nation’s largest news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News, and others, a White House official familiar with the matter said.
Well I believe that 130 suspicious activity reports, 19 shell corporations, 20 million dollars, evidence from the FBI of a 5 million dollar bribe, whistle blowers who have come forth who have first hand experience with being stopped from investigating Hunter Biden, as well as other bits of evidence of corruption is enough to start an investigation. Most importantly we know that felony charges had been recommended and that the DOJ ignored the recommendations and no explanation to why has been provided. The so called sweetheart deal was the sad culmination of all of this corruption and exposed the obvious corrupt intent to protect the President's son and family from scrutiny.
In other words, this impeachment will start with more actual evidence than probably any impeachment probe we ever had. Moreover, the idea of the impeachment probe is to look "into" allegations. It does not require that you already have proof, even as it is obvious that they do in this case (have evidence of crimes).
The only point I would concede is that the known crimes were committed largely before Biden was President. The investigation should focus as much on why these crimes have not been investigated or prosecuted. Furthermore the Biden team will argue that the evidence of his direct involvement in any crimes is not as strong as the evidence against Hunter. That being said, does anyone really believe that Hunter earned 20 million dollars and provided it to 9 different Biden family members without any input or assistance from "the big guy"?
Seriously, not enough to investigate? Eventually even the media must shut this sort of nonsense down for some sake of honesty. They eventually will have to address the problems they have with credibility. Towing the Biden Administration line by request will do everything to further erode what little credibility they have left.
As we have learned (especially in politics) many times it is not the crime, but the coverup. This probe needs to dive into what exactly David Weiss has been doing, who is directing him, and how much actual influence has the White House used to keep this under wraps. Ironically, by sending a letter to the media demanding that they follow the Party line on this subject, they are proving the underlying assertion that the Administration is working overtime to squelch the investigation and make sure it goes away. It is a stupid move that screams desperation.
I forget.
Who is roger?
Roger sees a lot of people with Alzheimer's where he lives and states as much. Based on his massive amount of experience with it... he knows that it is apparently directly tied to believing Joe or Hunter Biden might have committed a crime...
Sane people without Alzheimer's will take Democrats, Biden, and CNN at their word. As everyone should!
Psych ward/nursing home alky must be frothing at the mouth today...
Next the White House spokesperson (did you know she was the first LBTQabcd+++ woman of color in this position? historic) will say this is a lie sourced to Republicans. or Russian disinformation. And 51 news organizations will agree and write a letter. Backed by the FBI and CIA and teachers union. "Democracy" is in peril.