House Speaker Mike Johnson will call a House vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden — a “necessary step” after weeks of White House “stonewalling,” he said Saturday.
“We’re being stymied by the White House,” Johnson told Fox News, describing how House committees have been routinely stymied in their attempts to investigate allegations of corruption related to questionable foreign business income by his son Hunter Biden.
“They prevented at least two to three DOJ witnesses from coming forward, a former White House counsel,” Johnson said. “The White House has withheld thousands of pages of evidence.”
A vote is likely to come this month, before the House recesses on December 15.
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told a closed-door meeting of Republican lawmakers that the administration had produced only 14 of the roughly 82,000 pages of Biden emails he sent or received under a pseudonym during his eight-year vice presidency.
“We are being blocked by the White House,” Johnson said as he announced plans to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry. ZUMAPRESS.com
Hunter Biden, 53, and the president’s brother James, 73, will both testify under subpoena this month about the family’s interactions with business partners from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
White House counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams confirmed on Friday that Biden had cooperated with document requests from Congress, providing “more than 35,000 pages of private financial records” and “more than 2,000 pages of Treasury Department financial reports.”
But Republicans argue that crucial evidence — including Air Force Two flight manifests, visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware residence, details about the sale of the eldest son’s new artwork, and the contents of classified documents illegally stored at Biden’s home — remains under wraps.
Biden has dismissed the House investigation as invalid. Reuters
In September, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ordered a House committee to begin an impeachment investigation into Biden– but never brought the matter to a floor vote, after being overruled by swing district Republicans.
The White House has dismissed the investigation as invalid without the approval of a House vote.
“We are a rule of law team,” Johnson said. “We have to do it very systematically.”
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