The House on Wednesday approved the launch of a formal impeachment probe into President Biden, just hours after Hunter Biden ditched Congressional testimony on Capitol Hill.
The 221-212 vote was along party lines, with Republicans formalizing a processes which began weeks ago, and Democrats criticizing the vote as a political stunt for retribution over the impeachments of former President Donald Trump – who was impeached for asking Ukraine about obvious Biden corruption, and his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot.
Formalizing the impeachment process will grant Congress additional power by improving the likelihood that a court will authorize access to grand jury materials, as well as boosting the chances that Republicans will be able to overcome objections such as executive privilege, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The White House several weeks ago challenged House subpoenas and demands for transcribed interviews with Biden family members on the grounds that the existing impeachment probe, launched by GOP leaders in September, wasn’t valid because the House didn’t vote to authorize it.
“The impeachment inquiry is necessary now,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) told reporters this week, “because we’ve come to this impasse where following the facts where they lead is hitting a stone wall because the White House is impeding that investigation.” –WSJ
The inquiry has so far been two-pronged, with the House Oversight Committee focusing on the Biden family’s financial malarkey, and the House Judiciary Committee focusing on on the weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI.
“This vote will allow the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees to continue their investigations. The evidence mounting against the president cannot be ignored,” said House Majority Whip Tom Emmer in Wednesday comments to reporters.
“We know Joe Biden has lied to or misled the American people about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings over and over again, and it is very likely that he was involved in and benefited from his family’s corrupt business dealings as well.”
Democrats tantrum
“No amount of evidence could convince Republicans that Joe Biden did nothing wrong because they’re not looking for truth, they’re looking for revenge,” said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the top Democrat on the House Rules committee, ahead of the vote.
Earlier Wednesday, Hunter Biden defied a subpoena to appear before the House to testify about his family’s dealings, instead saying in a Capitol Hill speech: “Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not financially involved in my business.”
The younger Biden has faced congressional and legal scrutiny regarding his overseas business dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere as well as alleged tax evasion, and Republicans have sought to show links between Hunter’s work and his father.
While Hunter Biden said he was willing to testify publicly, he rebuffed a subpoena from House Republicans to answer questions behind closed doors on alleged links between his foreign business dealings and his father. “I’m here today to make sure that the House committee’s illegitimate investigations of my family do not proceed on distortions, manipulated evidence and lies,” he said.
The younger Biden had previously said he was only willing to testify publicly so that Republicans couldn’t selectively leak portions of his statements. House leaders said the president’s son couldn’t dictate the terms of his testimony and said they would now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings against Hunter Biden. -WSJ
“He was just across the way at the Capitol, you’d think he could’ve come here and sat for questions,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
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A heart attack or stroke would be so much better.
More so if caught on teevee.
The dems would pretty much be forced to let President Skank run for reelection.
Yes.
Xiden will croak pre election and be replaced by fill in the blank, probably not big mike or gruesome.
Ronald McDonald would be a monumental improvement.
So…some OTHER child groping clown?
The democrat party’s opposition has nothing to do with “protecting truth or justice”, it is quite the opposite.
I actually have and see no problem with hunter testifying in open forum,too much closed door bullshit!
Give him limited immunity for anything he admits to. He’d rat out the old man within minutes.
Free coke and free strippers.
I believe the issue is time.
In closed door testimony, each “side” gets 60 minutes of straight questioning, alternating turns until it’s done.
With public, it’s 5 minutes at a time, allowing person being questioned to stall and bloviate and never answer (fully) any questions.
That’s why you always see them saying “thank you for that question…”
And Andrew Wilkow (patriot XM) reported that that was part of the deal, private THEN public.
Hunter team rejected that and the doj dropped the tax dodge indictment to give him an excuse to bail.
Anything to take the collective mind off of the castastrophe of CoVid-19(84), endless bloody fucking useless wars overseas, and a dollar near ready to be stripped of the “World’s Reserve Currency” title.
Oh, and FJB.
First rule of trial lawyers: Never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer.
Hunter will have question askers ( $$$ ) that ask the proper questions for his innocence.
Why else would he go public?
Oh, and FHB.
Protip: FJB covers all JBs progeny.
Including those who showered with him?
FHB should be required to have a real drug test before any testimony, in/out of courts, House/Senate, or appearing in media.
Let’s keep prostitutes on the streets, not in the governments. Finally, keep the Popo out of the courts and back into their local cop-shop with less than 1/2 pay; Pinochle ain’t that hard to learn.
A drug test?
He would definitely pass.
Q “What’s this one?”
HB “Heroin”
Q “And this one?”
HB “Mmm…meth!”
Funny!
HB: I’m not sure, can I borrow your lighter?
Still cutting the zees on everything from Clinton’s Whitewater racket forward. Bombshells galore, to the extent that the word bombshell means a sack of shit splattering on the floor. So, please, keep on, keep on, I’ll be around, sleeping peacefully.
American Made.
Mena, Arkansas
What a pathetic waste of time.
Are you not governtained?
Republitards, Succinctly:
We have approved the preliminary plan to assemble a commitee, which will study the feasibility of organizing an investigation into forming a commitee to investigate Joey.
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Everybody……..𝐆𝐞𝐭.𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲𝟒𝟗.com & open now
who works 3 to 4 hours every day on this job and earns thousands of dollars per month
How bout investigating MAGGOT joe biden on his CRIMINAL PEDOPHILE SHIT ?
This sack of shit is a gawd damn PEDOPHILE and should be hanged for that alone.
Same with his putrid scum spawn hunter.
Hang em both side by side !
I don’t see how Joe Blow makes it to the next so called “election”. What with all the one minute press conferences he schedules each time he , (“we”), breaks the record closing DOW.
Biden does not deserve to be impeached…….. He deserves to be tried for treason and hanged by the neck until he rots.
My theory is that Biden was a bagman for Obama. He was selling access to Obama all along, using his crackhead son to make the pickups. A VP has no influence at all and no power. Why would anyone want access to him, anyway? It was all about getting bribes for Obama, and giving Obama a cutout when needed. The Obamas couldn’t pay their bills when he was a senator, and after an 8 year temp job, he retires and lives like a billionaire.
Biden was made a candidate to shield him from any legal problems, then was made president to continue to shield him. Why else but to keep Obama’s cutout in place?
Slow walking-slow dancing. The Republican RINOs are the best at snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. I think I’ll go watch some paint dry, that will be more of an optimistic endeavor.