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On the recordDecember 13, 2023
The reason mysteries are called whodunits is because they start with a crime, and then you have to try to figure out who did it. The Biden impeachment investigation isn't a whodunit, it is a what is it. It is like an Agatha Christie novel where the mystery is: What is the crime? That gets very tedious very fast. After 11 months of this, no one can tell us what President Biden's crime was, much less where it happened, when it happened, what the motive was, who the perpetrators were, or who the victims were. Maybe the funniest thing I have ever seen in Congress was yesterday in the Rules Committee when Congressman Neguse kept asking Congressman Reschenthaler what the crime was? Congressman Reschenthaler--who is not on the Oversight and Reform Committee and is apparently just waking up to the joke--kept saying that he didn't know what it was, but that is why we need an impeachment investigation, to find out. Congressman Neguse kept asking him: But what will the impeachment investigation be looking for? Finally, Congressman Reschenthaler said: A high crime or misdemeanor. And Congressman Neguse said: Yes, but which one? Now Congressman Neguse, of course, was involved in a real impeachment investigation of a real Presidential offense: the incitement of a violent political insurrection against this Congress, against the Vice President of the United States, against the Constitution, and against the election of 2020.…
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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