Hmmm: Lindsey Graham to demand Biden-Poroshenko records for Ukraine probe – By Ed Morrissey (Hot Air) / Nov 21 2019
I question the timing — not the timing with the impeachment hearings per se, but with rising unhappiness in TrumpWorld with Lindsey Graham over them. Last night, the Senate Judiciary chair told Sean Hannity that he now plans to demand records from the State Department relating to any conversation between Joe Biden and then-president Petro Poroshenko the month before Biden’s demand to have their general prosecutor fired. Graham’s questioning the timing too, saying that the explanations surrounding Viktor Shokin’s firing “don’t add up”:
Sen. Lindsey Graham wants access to phone transcripts between Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s leader in the month before a top prosecutor, who was alleged to have investigated the owner of the natural gas company that employed Biden’s son, was fired. …
In a letter he plans to send to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday, Graham said he will request any records of conversations Biden had with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in February 2016.
“I want to know if there’s any transcript or readouts of the phone calls between the vice president and the president of the Ukraine in February after the raid on the gas company president’s house,” the South Carolina Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
Why is the timing curious? Earlier in the same evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson had blasted Graham for empty threats of holding the bureaucracy accountable for its abuses. In this instance, Graham had spent considerable time on Fox blasting the FBI for tipping off CNN to Roger Stone’s impending arrest and promised to hold the bureau accountable. Carlson noted Graham’s lack of follow-through and called it emblematic of Senate Republicans’ lack of intestinal fortitude:
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