Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson believes it is “highly likely” that President Biden committed an indisputable wrongdoing and has vowed to “follow the truth wherever it leads.”
The Republican from Louisiana told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he will continue an investigation into whether the Biden family benefited financially from ties to other countries while he was vice president.
“The reason we’re moving to the level of an impeachment inquiry into the president himself is because if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it’s going to be, that’s very likely impeachment,” Johnson said.
He noted that corruption is listed as a cause of impeachment in the Constitution, saying, “Corruption is listed there, and it looks and smells like it.”
“We will follow the truth wherever it leads,” Johnson vowed. “We will engage in due process because, again, we are a party of the law.”
“I know people are getting anxious and they’re getting agitated, and they just want someone to be impeached, but we’re not doing that like other teams,” he said, brushing off Democrats trying to impeach former President Donald Trump.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an interview Thursday said it is “very likely” that President Biden committed a reprehensible offense. Fox News
“We need to be based on evidence.”
The interview came as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) demanded Biden explain why he got a $200,000 check from his brother on the same day James Biden received a similar transfer from a US hospital company promising to use his “politics” extension ” to find Middle Eastern investors.
Comer asked White House counsel Edward Siskel for details on what Biden associates say were loan repayments between relatives after vowing to bring Biden relatives before his panel “soon” to explain the president’s interactions with their associates from countries like China and Ukraine.
Republicans have investigated President Biden’s foreign business ties.REUTERS
“If Joe Biden personally loaned James Biden an amount that was later repaid via a $200,000 check, please provide the loan documents, including loan payments, loan agreements and any other supporting loan documentation,” Comer wrote to Siskel on Thursday.
The chairman of the Oversight Committee has publicly mocked the six-figure check as loan repayment and wrote that there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever loaned his brother that amount — after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said records show the loan occurred about two months before March 1, 2018, check.
“The White House has alleged that Joe Biden loaned James Biden $200,000, and this check is repayment,” Comer wrote to Siskel.
Johnson vowed to continue the impeachment inquiry.Fox News
“Records obtained by the Committee show numerous large incoming transactions into the personal accounts of James and Sara Biden from various entities. Some records of these transactions may have obscured the identity of the actual payers, but there are no records in the Committee’s possession indicating that Joe Biden made large loan payments to his brother.”
Comer also asked for “relevant documentation and IRS filings” that could show whether there was indeed a loan.
Prior to the request, Comer had also asked special counsel Robert Hur to reveal whether any classified documents were improperly withheld by President Biden following his vice president’s deals with countries where his son Hunter did business.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has investigated a $200,000 payment the president received from his brother.REUTERS
Additionally, Comer asked Hur to detail the scope of his office’s two-day interview with the president and “any limitations or restrictions on scope during the interview that would hinder the line of inquiry regarding evidence (emails, text messages or witness statements) directly linking Joe Biden to inconvenient foreign payments.”
The President has denied any involvement in the business affairs of his son and brother.
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