The president of the Lower House (House) of Congress, Kevin McCarthy, has given in to pressure from the most conservative Republican sector. As soon as he returned to Washington from the summer period and regained activity, he addressed three House committees to open an investigation for an “impeachment” or impeachment trial against US President Joe Biden for his son Hunter’s business dealings. Biden.
The decision involves taking the necessary steps to obtain bank records and other documents from the president himself and his son Hunter Biden for the possible collection of commissions and corrupt practices. “This is the next logical step,” said the speaker at a press conference, in reference to the investigation that the conservatives have carried out in recent months in which they have not been able to establish the president’s involvement in his son’s businesses. .
“This will give our committees all the power to gather facts and respond exactly to the citizens who want to know,” he stressed. “I think the president will also want to respond to those questions and allegations,” he insisted. By his account, House Republicans “have uncovered serious and credible allegations in President Biden’s conduct,” he added.
According to Mccarthy, these are allegations of power, obstruction and corruption. The decision satisfies the radical Trumpists in the House, who from the first moment promised to take revenge for the two “impeachments” that the former president had to face. In both cases he was acquitted because the Senate, which decides, was then under Republican control. Today it is under Democratic control.
James Comer, legislator from Kentucky and extreme Trumpist, will lead the investigations as president of the oversight and surveillance commission, in coordination with Jim Jordan, representative from Ohio, in charge of the Justice commission and even more fervent supporter of Donald Trump, and Jason Smith, Missouri pick and media chief.
McCarthy’s decision, under pressure from legislators from his party who would be willing to remove him from office, represents a significant change in the speaker’s position, after he assured the conservative website Breitbart that he would not open the impeachment process without the vote of the entire House, where its majority is slim and there are a few Republicans who oppose this decision because they consider it premature, lacking evidence and, therefore, a toast to the sun to satisfy the extremists that will only bring a waste of time .
So, given the more than apparent lack of enough votes to promote this issue, he has taken the most direct line. McCarthy also contradicts himself in relation to what he stated in 2019, when he attacked Democrats for opening an “impeachment” against President Trump before putting the case to a vote. She then questioned the legitimacy of that authorization unless the chamber endorsed it. The Democrats controlled it, took it to a vote and won.
One of the White House spokespersons criticized McCarthy’s decision for precisely that, for announcing the political cause without having put it to a vote. “The House Republicans’ investigation has failed to produce a single piece of evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. In fact, his witnesses and the documents have not provided any connection,” he stressed.
McCarthy noted that the impeachment investigation could take four weeks, which will give House investigators additional legal power over the Biden family. For now, they have not found any connection between the president and his son Biden’s foreign businesses.
