Although they found no evidence of crimes or misdemeanors in a year-long Congressional investigation, Republicans Progress of the United States Attempt to impeach President Joe Biden. This Wednesday, conservatives in control of the Lower House are preparing to vote. allow the investigation to be officially launchedA step that would formalize the investigations they have carried out so far and give them greater authority to undertake this work.
This step Condemned as a political maneuver and is viewed by Democrats as a “fishing expedition” and by many as a “fishing expedition” by conservatives. diverting attention from the former president’s legal troubles donald trump, Republicans’ 2024 favorite.
Obsession
Since they took control of the Lower House, and even before, investigating the president has been an obsession of Republicans, and Republicans in particular. most radical wing of the party. Once they reached the chairmen of the committees, they launched an investigation and last SeptemberPeaker’, Kevin McCarthyunilaterally authorized, as promised, by a concession granted to the ultras, and without being subject to a vote of the full assembly, official start of previous investigation.
Now they are poised to take another step after ultra-conservative Mike Johnson took over as speaker of the House of Representatives and overcame the reluctance of more moderate Republican congressmen elected from contested districts. And yet they do it work they have done so farthrough hearings, subpoenas and demands, in which they accumulated thousands of pages of documents and testimony, They found nothing to support their claims, focused allegation of corruption Biden, especially when it comes to possible connections to Biden.son Hunter’s overseas affairs.
The resolution being voted on still does not include formal impeachment charges against the president, but The powers and powers of the three committees conducting the investigation are being expandedThis campaign focuses on four areas, as Johnson explained: the millions of dollars Hunter Biden and the president’s brother, James Biden, have received from businesses abroad; false or misleading statements made by the current president about his son’s work; $240,000 in exchange for conversations or meetings with his son’s business partners and loans made to both his brother and Hunter.
Subpoena to Hunter Biden
The decision also confirms steps taken by Republicans in previous investigations, the legitimacy of which has been questioned in the absence of a vote to formalize the entire process. One of these steps was: Subpoena for Hunter Biden’s questioning behind closed doors The president’s son has offered to submit to a public hearing, a process he has so far rejected.
This is an offer he renewed in front of Congress and the press on Wednesday morning, the day specified in the call, and he made this offer once again. defending his father’s innocence and condemning Republicans for what he called “illegitimate investigations.”
“no test to support my father’s accusations that he was financially involved in my affairs. It didn’t happen, “Not in my work as a lawyer, not as an executive of Burisma, not in my alliance with a Chinese businessman, not in my investments in the United States and abroad, not as an artist,” he said. “in your life and you nine charged with tax evasion There are three others linked in Delaware and California. buying weapons during one of his moments of drug addiction.
“They don’t want an open process He also denounced his refusal to accept questions before the press and justifying his refusal to be questioned because “Americans could see through their tactics, expose their baseless investigations, or listen to what I have to say.” He’s trying to stop Republicans from doing this by closing the door interested leaks and what they can have “Distortions, manipulated evidence and lies.”