Thread by @emptywheel

Jamie Raskin shows boxes containing all the documents that James Comer has had no problem getting w/o impeachment, which show no evidence of wrongdoing.

Note, too, the timer showing how long it will be until @SpeakerMcCarthy shuts down the entire government, creating financial crisis for millions of families.

Not sure @jamescomer is having as much fun with impeachment as he thought he'd have.

Jamie Raskin asks to subpoena Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas.

Jim Jordan moves to table it.

Someone tries to get out of subpoenaing them bc they're in jail.

Raskin: Neither Mr. Giuliani nor Mr. Parnas are in jail right now.

Comer is having to keep the vote open bc he doesn't have the votes.

So...minutes into impeachment, Republicans have attempted to REFUSE to subpoena key witnesses, but are having to stall to accomplish this.

Motion to table passes 20-19. (Katie Porter is not present.)

Real enthusiasm for this impeachment.

Turley says the accelerating impeachment should be cause for concern.

It seems the problem is 100% Donald Trump.

Turley says these are facts:
1) Biden has spoken falsely abt these deals (this is not entirely true).
2) Biden was focus of multi-million influence peddling.
3) Biden MAY have benefited from scheme.

So far Eileen O'Connor has made three claims--abt the credibility of Gary Shapley's testimony, abt the timing of his so-called whistblowing, abt why the statutes of limitation "lapsed"--that have been debunked.

She's under oath...

Eileen O'Connor misstates what FBI had found about authenticity.

WHY OH WHY DOESN'T SHE CARE ABOUT FACTS?!?!?!

Bruce Dubinsky says he's going to explain how frauds work.

Let's hope some Dems ask him about Trump's business practices.

Some laughter when Dubinsky says "gone is the day when suitcases of cash or gold bars are moved around the globe."

BREAKING: James Comer says that the Bidens had nothing to sell but Joe's Brand.

That's precisely the argument that Trump gave in the NYS case in which he was just described as a fraud.

HIs property didn't have value, his brand did.

Jason Smith admits that Trump's name has come up as often as Biden's has.

THAT's BECAUSE HE'S A FRAUD!!!

He also misstates James Biden's testimony about Kevin Morris.

O'Connor freezes for a minute, forgetting her lines.

O'Connor misstates the scope of Public Integrity.

BREAKING: @RepJasonSmith establishes that the standard for criminal investigation is WAYYYYYYY below Trump's international exposure and shell companies.

Why does he keep making the case that IRS should have investigated Trump more aggressively?!?!?

Mike Turner makes the availability of stolen classified documents to Jared Kushner fair game, along with the REMOVAL of docs from White House.

BREAKING: REpublicans are objecting to Devin Archer's testimony--their own witness!--to be introduced into Congressional record.

Gerald Connolly is engaged in a stunt, treating Trump's activities as if they were his own, but he did get the Fraud ruling in there.

Connolly: This is what this is about. This isn't about our need to defend Joe Biden. This is about an attempt to get off topic to distract from pending criminal proceedings against Donald Trump.

Comer won't let Dan Goldman ask if the Archer testimony is in as evidence.

Comer says, you keep asking about evidence.

Goldman: I'm trying to introduce evidence. Is it in?

Raskin: Are we not having parliamentary order?

BREAKING: @ByronDonalds says that a real estate company should have real estate.

Yet ANOTHER Republican demanding Republicans impeach Donald Trump.

@ByronDonalds BREAKING: Byron Donald establishes that it's a red flag when ownership moves from one family member to another, as has happened with Donald Trump!!!

BREAKING: Now Byron Donald is introducing texts from the period when Hunter Biden's life was being digitally hijacked, when he was Ketamine treatment.

Here's the unreliable summary of the full text, of which Byron Donalds just introduced half. It's clear he UTTERLY misrepresented the text.

gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…

Nancy Mace says it's hypocrisy to hold James Comer to the standards of Trump's DOJ.

TONY BOBULINSKI!!!

[She's quoting from an interview that Bobulinski did after DIRECTLY COMING from the Trump White House, represented by Stefan Passantino.]

Mace puts up reconstructed texts as if they were direct quotes: They're not. They're unreliable summaries.

BREAKING: Mace has just laid out why Trump hid his tax returns, because he was hiding $17.5 M from a Chinese company AS PRESIDENT.

Turley: The public does not buy into the idea that you can sell your family brand if it's influence peddling.

Someone needs to ask Turley whether there's enough allegations of influence peddling on Trump's comment that the Saudis would pay whatever he asked for real estate.

BREAKING: @replisamcclain says that Trump should be prosecuted for all the assaults of cops on January 6, bc if someone orders violence they're liable.

@RepLisaMcClain BREAKING: Lisa McClain now says that taking $$ from corrupt RUssian oligarchs, like the Agalarovs, is reason for impeachment.

Kwieisi Mfume notes that Rudy worked for the same Romanian as Hunter Biden, which he uses to offer another motion to subpoena Rudy Giuliani.

Honestly, it's two sides of the same coin. Both were targeted by the same corrupt people.

BREAKING: Republicans trying to table motion to subpoena.

Comer sighs audibly after Goldman, Raskin, and Mfume ask for a recorded vote.

[One reason Comer finds this tedious is bc his members aren't sticking around -- there appear to be more Dems on the floor]

Note that Pete Sessions has voted against both of these. Remember he was a witness in the Lev Parnas trial. He was being peddled.

Nancy Mace thinks that Rudy, who worked for the same Romanian SHE JUST RAISED, has nothing to do with this.

Mfume raising his voice raises a sign, Where is Rudy. Claims the GOP is afraid to bring Rudy before the Committee.

Virginia Foxx says this is VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS. Demands that Dems (!!) stop playing games.

AOC goes after Donalds for using fabricated text messages, and submits the full context of the text (the one I called him on--I'm besties w/AOC).

[Fact check, I WISH I were besties with AOC]

AOC: We are wasting our time. ... This is an embarrassment to the country.

Grothman is worried that Americans think that this behavior by the Bidens is normal.

[Maybe it's 4 years of Trump?}

"I don't think it's the way it works."

Grothman keeps raising Menendez. I HOPE someone gets him on the record abt his resignation.

Grothman doesn't appear to know that if BIden were convicted of impeachment a woman named Kamala Harris would be President.

He also looks and sounds drunk.