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RandySF

(58,899 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:15 AM Jan 2020

GOP Sen Rick Scott airs anti-Biden ad in Iowa amid impeachment trial

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is out with a new ad airing in Iowa going after former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the caucuses on Monday.

The ad opens with Scott, a staunch ally of President Trump's, noting that he is "one of the jurors in the U.S. Senate," referring to the ongoing Senate impeachment trial.

The 30-second ad focuses on allegations Republicans have made during the trial, with Scott declaring, "The real story here is the corruption Joe Biden got away with."

"Vice President Biden threatened a foreign country and forced them to fire a prosecutor, who was investigating a company paying his son $83,000 a month," the senator states.

The ad buy was worth $19,000 and will appear on local cable TV in Des Moines, according to The Wall Street Journal.

News of the ad comes the same day that Trump's legal team wrapped up their opening arguments in the Senate trial, urging a quick end to the impeachment proceedings.

Republicans have argued that Biden acted improperly when as vice president he called on Ukraine to fire a prosecutor while his son served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/480406-gop-senator-airs-anti-biden-ad-in-iowa-amid-impeachment-trial

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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GOP Sen Rick Scott airs anti-Biden ad in Iowa amid impeachment trial (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2020 OP

And there it is nini Jan 2020 #1

FUCKOFF Gaslighitng ASSHOLES Cha Jan 2020 #2

Well, if ANYONE knows corruption, it's Rick Scott. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #3

Yeah PatSeg Jan 2020 #8

He is a jerk. madaboutharry Jan 2020 #4

How much influence does skelator have in Iowa? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #5

well his millions wont effect this election mitch96 Jan 2020 #6

Except Scott is doubling down on a lie promoted by Trump for months... CBHagman Jan 2020 #7

nini

(16,672 posts)

1. And there it is

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:22 AM

Jan 2020

They're already planning on impeaching Biden. God..we need to take the senate back.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Cha

(297,296 posts)

2. FUCKOFF Gaslighitng ASSHOLES

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:23 AM

Jan 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

3. Well, if ANYONE knows corruption, it's Rick Scott.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:24 AM

Jan 2020

The former governor of FL, was once the CEO of Hospital Corp of America (HCA), who was sued by the federal government for perpetrating the BIGGEST MEDICAID FRAUD in US history.

And then there's Pam Bondi. Former FL AG under Rick Scott. Still a lying fraud.

I would like to remind the repubs of these salient facts:

There is NOT ONE SHRED of evidence that Joe Biden committed any crime, foreign or domestic.

Joe Biden was NOT just impeached.

Joe Biden is NOT on trial in the Senate.

Joe Biden is NOT relevant to trumpie's corruption.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

PatSeg

(47,500 posts)

8. Yeah

Reply to Haggis for Breakfast (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:42 AM

Jan 2020

It would seem that the most corrupt are the ones who are quick to accuse others of corruption.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)

4. He is a jerk.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:26 AM

Jan 2020

Wasn’t his hospital system fined for defrauding Medicare?

Oh, and didn’t he take an oath to be an impartial juror?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts)

5. How much influence does skelator have in Iowa?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:31 AM

Jan 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

mitch96

(13,911 posts)

6. well his millions wont effect this election

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:33 AM

Jan 2020

We got the big guns out with BILLIONS not his puny millions....
I hate this man....
m

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

CBHagman

(16,986 posts)

7. Except Scott is doubling down on a lie promoted by Trump for months...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:37 AM

Jan 2020

The Washington Post fact-checker has been all over this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/23/fact-checking-trumps-latest-claims-biden-ukraine/

...there is no equivalency here: We fact-checked these allegations in May and found they did not add up. In fact, Biden’s case has gotten stronger with time.

Trump has claimed that Biden in 2015 pressured the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin, the top Ukrainian prosecutor, because he was investigating a Ukrainian gas producer, Burisma Holdings, that had added Biden’s son Hunter to its board. But it turns out that the investigation had already been shelved when Biden acted and may have even involved a side company, not Burisma. The Ukrainian prosecutor was regarded as a failure, and “Joe Biden’s efforts to oust Shokin were universally praised,” said Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist heavily involved in Eastern European market reforms.

Moreover, Yuri Lutsenko, a former Ukrainian prosecutor general who succeeded the fired prosecutor, told Bloomberg News that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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