Nebraska Sen. Ricketts seeks investigation of Hunter Biden attorneys

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard 48 min ago

LINCOLN — Saying there “needs to be accountability for any misconduct or favoritism,” U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts is urging a disciplinary review of allegations that Hunter Biden’s legal team misled the judge in his case.

Nebraska’s junior Republican senator has sent a letter with his concerns to professional disciplinary committees in both New York and the District of Columbia. In it, he called for the committees to take “swift action” to investigate.

Although Ricketts is not involved with the case against President Joe Biden’s son, he said Tuesday that he wrote the letter to “help restore integrity to the justice system.”

“I’ve heard from countless Nebraskans who are concerned our justice system is being weaponized against President Biden’s political opponents while his son gets preferential treatment,” he said. “It’s incumbent on all of us to ensure that the justice system is treating all Americans fairly.”



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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. ENOUGH of this "weaponization" shit coming from Republicans....

But then, they have NOTHING of substance to run on when it comes to the betterment of the country and its people. So they use CONSPIRACY THEORIES as the issues.

What a sad lot.

[bronxiteforever]

4. +1 excellent points

Scratch the surface of a GOP politician and you get more surface. Empty heads and empty suits. Truly a party for trolls with nothing to offer the country except taunts and outrage theater.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

15. Formica all the way down!

That's what i thought of with your surfaces comment.

And not even the cool Formica Atomic Age laminates but those ugly beige-gold laminates they used to have.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Putrid.

It's all projection. What's he been up to?

[JohnSJ]

3. The republican party is a lawless worthless piece of garbage, who have and are actively trying to

destroy our Democratic Republic.

They really need to be called out as the scum they are

[Ponietz]

10. Seconded

All in favor?

[Lonestarblue]

5. Oh for heavens sakes. These people are beating a dead horse long after it died.

Evidently they’re so stupid they can’t come up with any real ideas for winning elections when rational people are voting.

[Omaha Steve]

7. Mental picture

[Lonestarblue]

9. Excellent!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

16. Same thing they did to Hillary

With all of their fake scandals about her.

I mean, really, it doesn't take much to get a MAGAt foaming at the mouth about Benghazi, the email servers, uranium, Vince Foster's death, and on.

And on.

And on.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. "Countless Nebraskans" - the voices in his head.

[chowder66]

13. Nailed it.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Fomenting distrust in our democratic institutions

And all this to cover up for the fact that the RNC made a deal with Russia in 2016 and Trump could blackmail every single one of them because of it.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Billionaire's racist kid wants to be pee-resident someday soon.

One thing Corporate McPravda is good at is free publicity for repube scumbags.

[Talitha]

12. Dump's lawyers got into trouble, so now Hunter's lawyers are going to get grilled?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

17. I have a feeling these traitor trash morons

Will soon learn how bad of an idea it is to go up against competent lawyers.

You'd think they'd have learnt it after Hillary pulverized them at the Benghazi hearings, but methinks some of them might be closet masochists who will welcome the pain and humiliation to come.

[PortTack]

14. Kay...can't get anything on the original target...let's blame the attorney...typical

[ancianita]

18. More proof that right wing oligarchs are about fabricating messaging so their dupes

continue to believe.

They think they are the alt-fact firewall between journalism/courts and their rule of men mission.

Not for nothing, one of the Ricketts kids is a political progressive. Just not a governor.

Know your oligarchs. Even the ones on our side.

Here's more:

Joe Ricketts served on the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute from 1999 to 2007.[41] His son, Pete Ricketts, is a member of the Republican National Committee and was elected governor of Nebraska in 2014.[42] His daughter, Laura Ricketts, is a gay rights activist and prominent bundler for Barack Obama.[43] Another son, Todd Ricketts, was named CEO of Ending Spending in 2013.[44]

On May 17, 2012, The New York Times published a story by Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg reporting that The Ending Spending Action fund had been presented with a 54-page proposal entitled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good." According to the Times, the proposal, written by a vendor seeking to be hired by Ending Spending, suggested a $10-million ad campaign to "attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away" and called for "running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright."[45]

The report came to light when an unidentified person, who was not connected to the proposal, leaked it to The New York Times.[46] The president of the Ending Spending Action Fund said that the pitch was a "nonstarter"[45] and issued the following statement repudiating the proposal: "Not only was this plan merely a proposal—one of several submitted to the Ending Spending Action Fund by third-party vendors—but it reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take."[47]

As of mid-2014, the Ending Spending SuperPac had supported only Republicans.[48]

In the 2016 presidential election, Ricketts donated at least one million dollars in support of Donald Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ricketts

[BaronChocula]

19. Oh, you messy magas

No one is falling into your four-inch rabbit holes. But you keep tryin'!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Investigating Abe Lowell is a waste of time

[nwduke]

21. Yet another trump humping lunatic

who didn’t read the Devan Archer transcript! How did idiots like this ever get elected to office? Oh right, Nebraska🤪🤪🤪

[Marthe48]

22. My Mom would have called him a blivey

10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag

[Skittles]

23. zzzzzzzzzzzz

you just KNOW these repukes got NOTHING when they're sinking this low

[Quanto Magnus]

24. They are telegraphing

what they intend to do if they retain or gain more power....


The projection is strong with this one....

[Happy Hoosier]

25. Stay in your lane Senator....

Unless this serves a legitimate ligislative purpose, this is WAY outside the authority of the Senate.

[maxsolomon]

26. I am never voting for Hunter Biden again!

Or his lawyers!