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Continued at: thehill.com...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that he expects the House GOP’s investigations into the foreign business activities of President Biden’s family to rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry.
“When Biden was running for office, he told the public he has never talked about business. He said his family has never received a dollar from China, which we prove is not true”, referencing Biden’s previous statements that he did not talk to his son Hunter Biden about his foreign business activities.
McCarthy also mentioned two IRS whistleblowers who alleged that prosecutors slow-walked an investigation into Hunter Biden tax crimes, and House GOP investigations finding that millions of foreign funds traveled through shell companies to Biden family members and associates.
“We’ve only followed where the information has taken us. But Hannity, this is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed,” McCarthy told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night.
“Because this president has also used something we have not seen since Richard Nixon: Use the weaponization of government to benefit his family and deny Congress the ability to have the oversight,” McCarthy said.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Shouldnt matter where you stand politically the democrats lowered the bar to impeaching over a phone call, they have a lot more than a phone call over this insanity, they have to, they really do they have no choice at this point.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Shouldnt matter where you stand politically the democrats lowered the bar to impeaching over a phone call, they have a lot more than a phone call over this insanity, they have to, they really do they have no choice at this point.
originally posted by: ElitePlebeian
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Shouldnt matter where you stand politically the democrats lowered the bar to impeaching over a phone call, they have a lot more than a phone call over this insanity, they have to, they really do they have no choice at this point.
Democrats made me numb with their impeachments. Doesnt seem to carry much weight to it anymore.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
Shouldnt matter where you stand politically the democrats lowered the bar to impeaching over a phone call, they have a lot more than a phone call over this insanity, they have to, they really do they have no choice at this point.
originally posted by: Threadbare
So in other words, McCarthy plans to run out the clock until next November by continuing to have the House do nothing. Then if the Dems take control of the House, McCarthy can say he served a full term as Speaker.
I'm pretty sure that's the only thing he cares about at this point.
originally posted by: CoyoteAngels
a reply to: dandandat2
Fighting fire with fire is very often necessary. It serves a lesson for a shoe to be on the different foot.
originally posted by: CoyoteAngels
a reply to: dandandat2
I consider fighting bribery and treason a worthwhile endeavor, don't you?
We certainly can't ignore such from the highest places in govt, just because it would upset people that voted for them.
More at: en.wikipedia.org...
Trump's impeachment came after a formal House inquiry found that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.
The inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's political opponent Joe Biden and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy on July 25, 2019 was particularly important according to Congressional testimony from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a member of the National Security Council who listened to the call from the White House Situation Room.