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After the vote, it is now clear that the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, who is being probed for his role in allowing his son’s controversal international dealings.
Still, there is no proof of any wrongdoing against the US president provided by the republicans, and the Senate controlled by Democrats wouldn’t indict him even if the investigation resulted in a real impeachment hearing.
Nevertheless, it ensures the GOP another high profile ground for attacking Biden on the campaign trail for second term in 2024 and also to divert attention on federal criminal trials that would involve the all but likely challenger, Donald Trump.
It was a close party line vote with all Republicans voting in favor and all Democrats voting no.
Hunter is said to have influence-peddled, which means that he took advantage of his connections and the family name in corruption-driven pay-for-play arrangements on his business deals in Ukraine and China as conservatives claim.
As for Hunter Biden, the allegations are about incidents that took place long before his father started to become president, and the White House insists that his son did nothing wrong.
On voting, Biden himself responded immediately, alleging that this was pure obstructionism by Republicans in regard to several key issues whilst remaining consumed with the desire to win points against a President who is seeking re-election in 2024.
“These people are not trying to do anything to improve Americans’ lives but have set about lying at me,” Biden stated in a long press release.
In a lengthy statement, Biden said, “Instead of doing something to improve the lives of Americans, they choose to attack me with lies.”
Instead of engaging on the urgent work that need be addressed they opt to waste away on unfounded political stunts that members of even the Republican party acknowledge it is fact-free.
On the other hand, Republicans argue that it is a valid endeavor.
Accordingly, this authorization of an inquiry by the whole house of representatives is the hardest that we can do towards enforcing such Presidential subpoenas in court as President Biden keeps on turning down lawful congressional subpoenas.
In Washington, Hunter Biden released an outraged declaration on his chaotic private affairs and business transactions that attract right-wing conspiracy theories and mass media investigations.
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He quoted, “My dad never invested money into my business.”
He is a Yale-trained lawyer and artist who was once a lobbyist; a man with a tragic life story that includes drinking and taking crack. Recently he spoke to journalists at the Capitol Hill where they had refused to let him in a special committee meeting that ran on Republican issues.
Trump would be impeached twice with his attempts to overturn his elections loss to Biden in 2020. These efforts would cause some of the Republicans to think about a potential Biden impeachment early this year. The hearing started in September and led to Wednesday’s voting.
On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer accused the ongoing probes of having shown that “Joe Biden was aware, involved, as well as profiteering from the use of the Biden family name for shady dealings the globe over.”
Several experts talked to in the process suggested that such grounds for impeaching Biden were not evident.
And the Democrats say that the Republicans are just doing raw politics.c
“House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says this Tuesday there is no proof that President Biden committed anything.
On the other hand, the Republicans assert that, by triggering the full inquiry, they will acquire fresh legal powers enabling them to collect such evidence as necessary.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on X, previously known as Twitter, that “It’s time for us to give the American people answers.”
The US Constitution states that the President can be removed by Congress from office for treason, bribery etc.
The senate controlled by the Democrats would have implicated him in a mock assassination which could have ended up taking his job just like it happened to Clinton or Nixon who lost their position on charges which were later declared as unproved.
Despite the fact that three US Presidents have been impeached — namely Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Trump in 2019 and 2021 — none was ever forced out of office through the Senate.
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