Fmr Senator: If Republicans Subpoena Hunter, Maybe Dems Should Go After Jared & Ivanka’s ‘$2 Billion Saudi Thing’
Heitkamp suggests using Senate subpoena power to fight fire with fire
If House Republicans insist on using their new authority next year in the majority to insistently investigate Hunter Biden and his laptop, across the Capitol Senate Democrats should turn around with hot scrutiny of their own — on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, a former Democratic senator suggested.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky (R-Ky) — the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee — and other top Republicans have vowed to push the investigation into President Biden's son, and his son's laptop, stories which long have been pushed in right-wing media but haven't really been found to have had much substance beyond that.
Even some Republicans don't think that's particularly smart.
“If you look back, we picked up seats in New York, New Jersey, California,” Mike DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive, has been quoted as saying. “These were not voters coming to the polls because they wanted Hunter Biden investigated — far from it. They were coming to the polls because they were upset about inflation. They’re upset about gas prices. They’re upset about what’s going on with the war in Ukraine.”
However, if Republicans insist on going full-bore on Hunter Biden — who has never been a part of his father's administration — one former Democratic senator suggests Democrats fight fire with fire, by going after adult children of Biden's predecessor who were.
Former senator Heidi Heitkamp, who served a single term representing North Dakota before being defeated for reelection in 2018, suggested that the new, stronger Democratic majority over in the Senate could probe Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who served directly in the White House.
Both Ivanka — and particularly Jared — had wide-ranging responsibility during the Trump administration, and Kushner, in particular, received a suspicious and eye-popping $2 billion payout from the Saudi government earlier this year after the couple had left federal service.
Because Sen Raphael Warnock of Georgia won his run-off election, Senate Democrats will have an outright 51-seat majority. That means that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) won't have to negotiate power-sharing with Republicans and will have unilateral subpoena power.
“You heard what Elizabeth Warren is talking about doing, subpoenaing Jared and Ivanka to talk about the $2 billion Saudi thing,” Heitkamp recently said in an on-camera appearance with ABC News, referring to the Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “And that’s a shot across the bow if you’re going to go after, you know, Joe Biden’s son in the House, maybe we ought to look at the deals that were done by -- by Jared and Ivanka when they were in the White House.”
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