At impeachment trial, Democrats address Biden corruption allegations as Graham promises more developments by jonward11
“The allegations [against Biden] are groundless,” Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, said during her presentation in the afternoon session.
Garcia went through the evidence that she said knocks the Republican allegations down, including the fact that Shokin was widely reputed to be corrupt. But as she began to address the topic of the Bidens, a Cheshire Cat grin spread across the face of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “I know a lot about the Trump family and their dealings in Russia. I don’t know anything about the Biden connection to the Ukraine, so when the managers tell me that this has been looked at and debunked — by who?” Graham said.
Bloomberg News reported last year that the Ukrainian government had opened its own investigation into Burisma after the British government’s action to freeze Zlochevsky’s assets, and that the case had been assigned to Shokin, who was a deputy prosecutor at the time, but that he let the case wither. Shokin became the top prosecutor early in 2015, and throughout that year nothing happened in the Zlochevsky case, according to the Bloomberg report.
As Garcia recited quotes from Voker and others, Graham and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., quietly mocked the Democrats’ argument. Graham rapped Barrasso’s right arm with the back of his left hand, and the two smiled, raised their eyebrows, and gestured as if to say, “If they said it, it must be true.”
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