{"id":1695650,"date":"2022-10-14T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695650"},"modified":"2022-10-16T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:53:53","slug":"biden-stands-accused-of-what-trump-was-impeached-for-in-opec-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-stands-accused-of-what-trump-was-impeached-for-in-opec-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Stands Accused of What Trump Was Impeached For in OPEC Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-stands-accused-of-what-trump-was-impeached-for-in-opec-debacle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden has been accused of doing what President Donald Trump was impeached for allegedly doing: putting his own political interest ahead of the national interest by calling on the Saudis to hold off on cuts to oil production until after the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/10\/13\/saudi-arabia-condemns-biden-insults-rejects-halting-oil-production-slash-until-after-midterms\/\">reported<\/a> on Thursday, Saudi Arabia\u2019s foreign ministry issued an angry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/10\/13\/saudi-arabia-condemns-biden-insults-rejects-halting-oil-production-slash-until-after-midterms\/\">statement<\/a> replying to Biden\u2019s claim earlier this week that the kingdom sided with Russia by backing an OPEC+\u00a0decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/10\/05\/opec-energy-ministers-agree-to-2-million-barrel-cut-to-oil-production\/\">cut oil production<\/a> by two million barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The Saudi statement appeared to led weight to a claim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/saudi-arabia-defied-u-s-warnings-ahead-of-opec-production-cut-11665504230\">reported<\/a> earlier in the week, that the Biden Administration pleaded with the Saudis not to change their minds, but to hold off on the production cuts for another month \u2014 i.e. until after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: Biden asked the Saudi Arabian regime to proceed with oil production cuts, which would raise prices and damage the U.S. economy, in a way that would minimize the political damage to his own party, which is facing a tough midterm election fight. Notably, Biden has not tried to expand U.S. oil production.<\/p>\n<p>As Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/adam-schiff-opening-argument-trump-impeachment-trial-102202\">stated<\/a> in his opening argument of Trump\u2019s impeachment trial in the Senate:\u00a0The Framers of our Constitution worried then\u2014as we worry today\u2014that a leader could come to power not to carry out the will of the people that he was elected to represent, but to pursue his own interests. They feared that a president could subvert our democracy by abusing the awesome power of his office for his own personal or political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Here, Biden has used the \u201cawesome power of his office\u201d to harm the national interest by allowing oil prices to rise, but pleading with the Saudis to help him politically by delaying the OPEC+ decision to cut production until after the November midterm elections \u2014 or, at the very least, until after most of the Democratic Party electorate, which favors voting early, had already cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in Trump\u2019s case is that while asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, was in his political interest, it was also in the national interest to probe the Bidens\u2019 conflicts of interest \u2014 as the revelations from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop have since made clear.<\/p>\n<p>There is no national interest promoted by allowing oil prices to rise dramatically during a period of inflation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has been accused of doing what President Donald Trump was impeached for allegedly doing: putting his own political interest ahead of the national interest by calling on the Saudis to hold off on cuts to oil production until after the midterms. 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