I think Merrick Garland has reached the point where he realizes that he's ruined his own reputation trying to protect Joe Biden and it's gotten so bad that he's no longer willing to subject himself to the humiliating hearings in front of Congressional investigators where he looks like the biggest doofus on the planet.
You think???? No you don't. You parrot every lie Trump and the Republican leadership tells you, without so much as questioning their stories.
Why would Joe Biden, a man who left office in 2016 with a mortgage on his personal residence and a reputation as the "most honest man in Washington", suddenly decide after he retired, to start soliciting bribes from enemies of the USA, and sell out his country?
And why would any foreign government want to give millions of dollars to a 70+ year old man who was no longer in office, and had shown no interest in returning to public life? Does that make ANY logical sense whatsoever???
I'm a poker player, and the first law of bluffing is that the story you're telling, has to make sense. The story Republicans are telling makes no sense whatsoever.
The prosecutor was fired in 2016. Joe Biden retired in 2017. Why did Burisma keep Hunter Biden on the Board of Directors until he resigned in 2019, just before his father announced his run for President? Hunter Biden had no leverage with the Trump administration, or the Republican leadership in the House or Senate.
Hunter resigned when his father ran for president. If the Biden/Burisma connection was a bribery scheme, why would Biden resign just when his father could actually help the company internationally? Hunter could have leveraged his father's Presidency for some REAL money, yet he quit doing international business entirely.
Last but certainly not least:
But sources ranging from former Obama administration officials to an anti-corruption advocate in Ukraine say the official, Viktor Shokin, was ousted for the opposite reason Trump and his allies claim. It wasn't because Shokin was investigating a natural gas company tied to Biden's son; it was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians, according to a Ukrainian official and four former American officials who specialized in Ukraine and Europe. Shokin's inaction prompted international calls for his ouster and ultimately resulted in his removal by Ukraine's parliament.
