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GOP: we've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.
Nothing if not predictable.
They found plenty wrong. Then ignored it.
"Cop didn't see it: I didn't do it", but at a government level. Wild.
That's the furthest they could go. A conga line of witnesses didn't mean jack. Granted nothing is enough when there's zero intention to be objective from the onset.
Not to mention the cowards who did the right thing and voted to proceed with impeachment cowed before the outrage of the idiots in the far-right minority that all the GQP insist on catering to and ignored the actual trial.
It's too bad Republicans don't ignore their fascist shitbags like the Democratic party ignores progressives.
“The weaponization of the impeachment process to settle political differences is not only wrong, it is immoral and corrupt,” he said in a statement. “Now that this shameful process is over, my work to defend our constitutional rights will resume.”
… except when my team does it.
Edit: removed /s as it came off changing the meaning of my comment.
Seriously as his team is seeking to impeach Biden over...checks notes...nothing? The GQP has been investigating Biden and have literally found zero evidence of wrongdoing.
He was reported by his own aides. And some Republicans still voted against him. It wasn't weaponized. He's saying that to try and downplay that there's still a federal investigation into it and that all this means is that he won't be impeached. It doesn't mean he can't be charged and convicted criminally which will have a real jury that isn't just his own party protecting him.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DALLAS (AP) — For years, the powers and protections that come with being Texas’ top lawyer have helped Ken Paxton fend off ethics complains, criminal charges and an FBI investigation.
After being cleared, Paxton, 60, thanked his lawyers for “exposing the absurdity” of the “false allegations” against him, and he promised to resume doing legal battle with the administration of President Joe Biden.
Back in office, Paxton nonetheless still faces serious risk on three fronts: an ongoing a federal investigation into the same allegations that led to his impeachment; a disciplinary proceeding over his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election; and felony securities fraud charges dating to 2015.
THE FEDERAL INVESTIGAITON Paxton came under FBI investigation in 2020 when eight of his top deputies reported him for allegedly breaking the law to help a wealthy donor, Austin real estate developer Nate Paul.
Paxton’s trial has been delayed by legal debate over whether it should be heard in the Dallas area or Houston, changes in which judge would handle it and a protracted battle over how much the special prosecutors should get paid.
In 2020, Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court to, effectively, overturn then-President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat by Joe Biden based on bogus claims of fraud.
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