The impeachment inquiry into President Biden will focus on answering four key questions related to the commander-in-chief’s alleged involvement in his family’s extensive overseas business dealings, a memo released Wednesday by Republican leaders of the three House committees tasked with leading the probe revealed.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) explained the purpose of the investigation, summarized the evidence that supported it and outlined the scope of their investigation in a detailed 20-page leaflet to the respective panel members.
The investigation into the 80-year-old president will seek to determine the following:
- “First, did Joe Biden, as Vice President and/or President, take any official action or implement any change in government policy because of money or other things of value given to his family or him from foreign interests?”
- “Second, did Joe Biden, as Vice President and/or President, abuse his position of public trust by giving foreign interests access to him and his office in exchange for payments to his family or him?”
- “Third, did Joe Biden, as Vice President and/or President, abuse his position of public trust by knowingly participating in a scheme to enrich himself or his family by giving the impression to foreign interests that they would receive access to him and his office in exchange for payments to his family or him?”
- “Fourth, did Joe Biden abuse his power as President to obstruct, obstruct, or otherwise obstruct the investigation (including the Congressional investigation) or the prosecution of Hunter Biden?”
President Biden is facing an impeachment inquiry into his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. The investigation will look at whether “Joe Biden, as Vice President and/or President, abused his position of public trust by providing access to foreign interests to him and his office in exchange for payments to his family or him?” FOX News/Tucker Carlson Tonight
The congressional leader warned that the investigation “will go where the evidence leads” and that throughout the investigation it may go in a direction that “the committee does not anticipate at this time.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered a House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden on September 12, citing “serious and credible allegations” of corruption uncovered during a congressional investigation into the president’s involvement in an apparent foreign influence-peddling operation by his family.
“There is no artificial deadline for completing this investigation,” the memo notes. “The committee will follow the facts and will take the necessary time to determine whether articles of impeachment should be drafted and referred to the full House for consideration.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy directed a House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden on September 12.Getty ImagesJames Comer is one of three House committee chairmen to explain the purpose of the inquiry.Ron Sachs – CNP/Sipa USA
So far, three House committees have found evidence that the Biden family and their business associates raked in more than $24 million from foreign sources between 2014 and 2019, according to the memo, from foreign companies and foreigners in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China. .
“This money was sent to members of the Biden family from foreign sources through a very complex chain of transactions that made it difficult to trace the flow of these funds,” the committee head wrote, accusing the president of “personal involvement” in his family’s foreign companies. business dealings while he served as vice president, was not “candid about his family’s foreign business involvement” and tried to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes.
“Obviously, the impeachment inquiry will span Vice President Joe Biden’s time until now, including his time out of office,” the memo reads. “The impeachment inquiry will focus on whether the President engaged in bribery, corruption, and influence peddling during his time as Vice President and President. The impeachment inquiry will concurrently investigate whether actions have been taken by the Biden Administration to prevent or prevent accountability for the same potential bribery, corruption and influence peddling.”
The fourth part of the investigation will look at whether “Joe Biden abused his power as President to hinder, hinder, or otherwise obstruct the investigation (including the Congressional investigation) or the prosecution of Hunter Biden?” APThree House Committees have found evidence that the Biden family and their business associates have raked in more than $24 million from foreign sources between 2014 and 2019. KIAR
Committee leaders also said they would seek to access not only bank records and documents related to the president, but also “people and entities close to him over the relevant time period, including members of his family and Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris Administration officials .”
“The committee will use all the tools at their disposal to conduct a thorough and necessary investigation and fulfill their constitutional responsibility to determine whether articles of impeachment against President Biden should be enacted and referred to the full House.”
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