House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will tell Republican lawmakers on Tuesday that an impeachment inquiry into President Biden is the “logical next step” amid an ongoing investigation into the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden.
McCarthy is expected to make the announcement when House Republicans meet behind closed doors to get a scheduled update from House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. James Comer, of Kentucky, on their investigation of the Firstborn. foreign business relations, according to the Punchbowl newsletter Tuesday morning.
He plans to say the two chairs have found enough evidence that the House should open an impeachment inquiry to obtain Biden’s bank records and other documents.
Sources previously told FOX News Digital that Republicans plan to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden this month, as three separate GOP-led committees investigate allegations that Hunter Biden took advantage of his father’s official government positions to secure foreign business deals.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is expected to tell Republican lawmakers on Tuesday that opening an impeachment inquiry is the “next logical step” amid the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.AP
However, it remains unclear whether the president personally benefited from his son’s deal or abused his power to influence them.
McCarthy previously told Breitbart News he would only open an impeachment inquiry with a formal House vote.
“To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans will not take it lightly or use it for political purposes,” he said. “The American people deserve to be heard on this matter through their representatives.
“Therefore, if we move forward with the impeachment inquiry, it will happen through a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives and not through a declaration by one person.”
For that to happen, 218 lawmakers would have to support an impeachment inquiry against a sitting president — and it’s unclear whether they have the votes to do so.
The party was only able to lose five votes from its conference, and several GOP lawmakers, including Ken Buck, of Colorado, and Don Bacon, of Nebraska, have expressed skepticism about the impeachment inquiry.
It remains unclear whether the president personally benefited from his son’s deal or abused his power to influence them.AFP via Getty Images
Others who support impeachment have complained about the timing, with Dan Bishop, of North Carolina, telling FOX Digital last week that it appeared McCarthy was “inflating” the issue to distract from an upcoming deadline to fund the federal government.
The House Speaker had hoped to squeeze through the $886 billion defense bill before the deadline in 18 days, the Punchbowl newsletter said.
Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas, also warned GOP leaders earlier this month: “Hiding behind impeachment to screw up America with massive funding of the status quo… will not end well.”
And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, said last month she would not vote on a government funding bill unless the House voted to begin a formal impeachment inquiry.
He then changed his tune last week, warning against a hasty impeachment vote.
Appearing to clarify his position, Greene tweeted on Monday: “I am not asking the House to impeach Joe Biden this week. I’m just asking for an impeachment inquiry.
“It asks if we can look further into Joe Biden and everyone who helped cover up the crimes of the Biden family over the years,” he said, adding: “Every Republican should support an impeachment inquiry.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer have led the investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.REUTERS
Meanwhile, some staunch anti-Biden Republicans, such as Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida, has threatened to fire McCarthy if he doesn’t go ahead with the impeachment vote.
The Republican-led House could investigate the Biden family without a formal impeachment inquiry, according to Senator John Cornyn.
“Because they got the majority, they got the chairmen of various committees, they can do all that now without going to a formal investigation,” the Texas senator told The Hill, noting the Senate won’t vote to reject it.
“The members of the House don’t really care what I think. All I can tell you is that it is unlikely to succeed in the Senate.
“Instead of doing something that they know is unlikely to end the way they want, maybe they want to emphasize something else,” he said.
House Democrats also argued that the Republican investigation into the Biden family has failed to turn up any evidence that would warrant formal impeachment — despite a review of 12,000 pages of subpoenaed bank records, 2,000 suspicious activity reports and interviews with two of Hunter Biden’s business partners.
In a statement on Monday, Rep. Jamie Raskin – the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee – slammed the investigation as a “complete and comprehensive look” and “an epic failure in the history of congressional investigations.”
Some staunch anti-Biden Republicans, such as Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida, has threatened to fire McCarthy if he doesn’t go ahead with the impeachment vote.AP
He said the evidence gathered so far only “debunked” what he called a “Republican conspiracy theory” after a report from the left-leaning Congressional Integrity Project accused Comer of exaggerating allegations of bribery and corruption without producing any hard evidence.
“After months of political stunts, dozens of hearings, transcribed interviews and memos, and despite FOX peddling conspiracy theories, Comer and his MAGA crew have failed to find a shred of evidence linking President Biden to any of their lurid accusations,” it read. .
Kyle Herring, the executive director, even argued that Comer and his allies were targeting Biden to distract from GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s perceived legal troubles.
“Let’s explain why Republicans are doing this in the first place,” he told The Guardian. “Donald Trump has been impeached four times and they think using government tricks to conduct their action-packed partisan investigation will convince the American people that Joe Biden is somehow as corrupt as Trump.
“The problem is that facts are facts and we have the facts that Donald Trump is corrupt and likely to commit many crimes.
“They don’t have a shred of evidence linking Joe Biden to any wrongdoing.”
Responding to reports of the impeachment inquiry, Ian Sams, spokesman for White House oversight and investigations, tweeted on Tuesday: “Has anyone asked Speaker McCarthy *why* an impeachment inquiry is the “next logical step?”
“House GOP investigation shows no evidence of wrongdoing by POTUS. In fact, their own witnesses have testified about it, and their own documents show no connection with POTUS,” he claimed.
“Opening up impeachment despite no evidence of wrongdoing by POTUS is just red meat for the far right so they can continue to baselessly attack him,” Sams said.
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