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Sep 15 2023
06:49 am
By: bizgrrl
"Longtime Democratic political consultant... James Carville, ... predicted the Democrats on the committee investigating Biden will eat alive the Republicans leading the charge. He mocked two of those Republicans, Reps. James Comer (Ky.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), as “borderline stupid.”
“I can’t tell you how much I want them to do this. This is a very stupid idea,” Carville said of the impeachment inquiry. “I want them to hold hearings. I want to let the American public see how thin, how nonexistent their case is that the president did anything wrong.”
"Carville said he wanted lawyers to “make fools” of the Republicans and argued the hearings would expose how “vapid and useless this entire endeavor is.”
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