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'So you always wonder what was the purpose of these things? And was there some financial benefit to somebody?'

Ahead of Joe Biden’s speech to the Democratic National Convention, a Florida Senator is questioning the President’s foreign policy moves and motivations.

“You look at Biden and some of these decisions they made just don’t make any sense unless there’s some benefit to somebody,” U.S. Rick Scott said on Newsmax.

“In my state, we’ve never understood why he released sanctions on Cuba, why he released sanctions on Venezuela. … We don’t understand why he reduced the sanctions on Iran. So you always wonder what was the purpose of these things? And was there some financial benefit to somebody?”

Scott has been vocal about the administration’s lack of support for Nicolas Maduro’s opposition in Venezuela and the Biden administration’s accommodations to Tehran. Scott has also said Biden’s appeasement of the Cuban regime would breed “terror” throughout the Western Hemisphere.

His comments Monday from Chicago come as the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Committee on the Judiciary, and Committee on Ways and Means released a report contending Biden has committed “impeachable conduct” in office.

The panels allege that over the last decade, “as part of a conspiracy to monetize Joe Biden’s office of public trust to enrich the Biden family, Biden family members and their associates received over $27 million from foreign individuals or entities.”

Indeed, the Republicans in Congress think Biden’s purported corruption is a family affair.

“Hunter Biden involved Vice President Biden in many of his business dealings with Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian individuals and companies. Then-Vice President Biden met or spoke with nearly every one of the Biden family’s foreign business associates, including those from Ukraine, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan,” the legislative committees charge.

They also charge that the “White House has obstructed the Committees’ impeachment inquiry by withholding key documents and witnesses” and “has impeded the Committees’ investigation of President Biden’s unlawful retention of classified documents, by refusing to make relevant witnesses available for interviews and by erroneously asserting executive privilege.”

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9 comments

Yrral
August 19, 2024 at 3:22 pm

Is insanity normal among some White people, because lots of White people seems to tolerate it and enable it, even with their delusional facts ,a White mind is a terrible thing to watse,so do not waste voting for Rick Scott
Turn the tide Blue
August 19, 2024 at 3:31 pm

What did Rick make stealing from Medicare and Medicaid while at HCA ? Another case of projection. Sure hope everyone remembers what a thief this guy is. Vote him OUT
Pastor Pasta
August 19, 2024 at 3:50 pm

I suggest… no wait, I know for a fact that Rick Scott profited by stealing BILLIONS from American taxpayers and took his golden parachute into politics where he has worked feverishly to screw over his non-rich constituents ever since.
PeterH
August 19, 2024 at 3:52 pm

Here’s what we all know:
Jared Kushner, a member of Trump’s family, cabinet and advisor to the GOP received three billion dollars from the Saudi government to silence US government narrative about the assassination and dismemberment of Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi in 2018! Rick Scott has NEVER addressed this fact…..instead he floats conspiracy theories.
Michael K
August 19, 2024 at 4:10 pm

Projection. From Trump and Vance on down, it’s all projection.
MH/Duuuval
August 19, 2024 at 4:38 pm

After a shaky start, Scott is starting to feel comfortable as an imperial Roman Senator. He definitely needs to go before Project 2025 rolls out.
Andy
August 19, 2024 at 5:20 pm

What a hypocrite! As Gov. Rick Scott hits the campaign trail trashing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he is accepting contributions from Valero Energy Corporation, a Texas oil refiner that is the biggest buyer of the country’s oil.
Tjb
August 21, 2024 at 11:37 am

When Scott “suggest” means he is lying
Cindy
August 25, 2024 at 4:43 pm

Controlling spending power on other or otherwise other flick of birds can bring tensions. Like pecking at one another