Disappointed with the mockery they’ve endured since the televised impeachment investigation virtually started with a witness asserting there’s not enough evidence to actually impeach President Joe Biden, House Republicans are considering pulling the investigation from Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and handing the effort to avenge Donald Trump’s embarrassments to Judiciary Chair and sexual abuse misprisioner Jim Jordan, Politico Playbook reports.
While remedial Congress critters Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert griped about how unimpressive the hearing was, more mainstream Republicans are also annoyed with Comer’s production, saying having the first hearing feature legal experts and not fact witnesses was a serious error that disengaged voters. Others complain that Comer’s strategy of exclusively releasing information to Fox’s cable propaganda network and other conservative media was preaching to the choir and ignored the need to convince non-MAGA voters about the seriousness of the charges.
Advocates for dumping Comer say the investigation should be handled by the Judiciary Committee, headed by Jordan, the traditional place for impeachment inquiries to start. The quick-talking Jordan, who himself is not a good interviewee, would be able to doubletalk information into the record without really saying anything, something that might be necessary given the Republicans haven’t released any evidence supporting their claims regarding Joe Biden corruption.