{"id":1984213,"date":"2023-07-27T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-blasts-dems-for-setting-terrible-precedent-with-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:18:56","slug":"rand-paul-blasts-dems-for-setting-terrible-precedent-with-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-blasts-dems-for-setting-terrible-precedent-with-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul criticizes Democrats for establishing a &#8220;dangerous precedent&#8221; through impeachment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Frand-paul-blasts-dems-for-setting-terrible-precedent-with-impeachment%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=1984213&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--><h2>House Republicans Float Impeachment \u200dInquiry Against President Joe Biden<\/h2>\n<p>With \u2062House Republicans floating an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/impeachment\">impeachment<\/a> inquiry against President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe\u2063 Biden<\/a>, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rand-paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) chastised the Democrats \u200con Thursday for how they used the process against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald \u200dTrump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/story.php?id=433129\">interview<\/a> \u200d with host Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the lawmaker said Republicans\u200c \u201cshould be better than the Democrats,\u201d who he said \u201crushed\u201d to impeachment \u200cduring the last \u200badministration.<\/p>\n<h3>Continued Investigation and Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI think there needs to be continued investigation,\u201d Paul said, referring to committee-level probes into the Biden family and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jonathan-turley-torches-the-fbi-where-evidence-goes-to-die\">concerns Republicans have<\/a> \u2063about a pattern\u2064 of millions of dollars flowing from foreign nationals under suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Paul suggested that congressional investigators keep pressure\u200b on the \u2064FBI to make disclosures and to track down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senator-reveals-fbi-informant-file-references-17-biden-audio-recordings\">17 audio recordings<\/a> \u2063of Biden and his son \u200bHunter mentioned in an FBI document detailing claims by a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-things-the-house-oversight-committee-should-ask-irs-whistleblowers\/\" title=\"7 Key Questions for IRS Whistleblowers by House Oversight Committee\">confidential human \u200csource<\/a> concerning an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-blasts-dems-for-setting-terrible-precedent-with-impeachment\/\" title=\"Rand Paul criticizes Democrats for establishing a \"dangerous precedent\" through impeachment.\">alleged multi-million-dollar bribery scheme<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/20\/biden-bribe-file-released-burisma-chief-said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved\/\">and\u200b a Ukrainian oligarch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Paul argued that it would be premature\u200d for the GOP-led\u200d House to escalate their investigative work to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-threaten-impeachment-of-attorney-general-garland\/\" title=\"House GOP threatens to impeach Attorney General Garland.\">impeachment\u2062 inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s Have Strong \u2063Evidence<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be\u2062 better to gather more \u200bbefore an impeachment. If there\u2019s going to be impeachment, let\u2019s have quite a bit of evidence out there [so] that the American people are actually behind this,\u201d Paul\u200b said.<\/p>\n<p>The House, then led by the\u200d Democrats, impeached Trump twice while he was in\u2064 office: once for allegedly abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress over his dealings with Ukraine, and a second time for \u201cincitement of insurrection\u201d following the Jan. 6, 2021,\u200d Capitol riot. Both times the GOP-controlled Senate acquitted Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Republicans \u2064in command of the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/speaker-mccarthy-indicates-republicans-are-moving-toward-impeachment-inquiry-of-biden\">said this week<\/a> \u200d that investigations into Biden \u2014 who called the allegations of corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/08\/fbi-tip-says-burisma-bribed-bidens-prez-asks-wheres-the-money\/\">\u201ca bunch\u200b of malarkey\u201d<\/a> \u2014 are \u201crising to the level of impeachment, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge \u2062and information needed.\u201d McCarthy stopped short of committing to such an inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690455510071000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zc8zwWGoXeRzcNJLiJVWI\">CLICK HERE TO GET\u2063 THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Paul said he does not \u201creally want to impeach every president that comes forward,\u201d\u200d adding that he thinks \u201cthe Democrats set a terrible precedent in impeaching Donald Trump just because they didn\u2019t like him, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator said he believes it is \u201cnot good for the republic to\u2063 keep impeaching presidents.\u201d He also mentioned\u2063 indicting presidents, a reference to Trump and the charges he now faces across multiple investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of\u200b this stuff is destructive,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With House Republicans considering impeachment against President Biden, Sen. 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