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“The GOP-controlled House on Wednesday voted to authorize its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — a formal step Republicans believe will grant them the ability to better enforce their subpoenas in the courts. The 221-212 vote was along party lines, with all Republicans voting yes and all Democrats voting no.” NBC News
The right supports the inquiry, arguing that a formal process is necessary in order to fully investigate Joe Biden’s alleged wrongdoing.
“‘I have never talked with my son or my brother, or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period,’ Biden said in 2019. Actually, he had. ‘My son has not made money, in terms of thing about, what are you talking about — China,’ Biden insisted in 2020. The records show that his son’s firm made $11 million there. ‘That’s not true,’ Biden said this year, when asked whether ‘Hunter Biden’s business associates sent over $1 million to three of your family members.’ As it happened, it was…
“In theory, the media ought to be keenly interested in informing the country of where things stand. In practice, its leading lights have effectively been working for the president. If the GOP is to have any chance of conveying what it has found thus far — and, despite the foot-stamping and gaslighting, what it has found thus far is extremely interesting — it will be obliged to do so under its own steam.”
Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review
“After years of suppressing this scandal, the media and even some Democrats now admit Hunter Biden and his uncles have long been involved in influence peddling. The United States has led global efforts to criminalize and deter this common form of corruption for years. Recent testimony from Biden associates confirmed they were selling ‘the Biden Brand’ and Joe Biden regularly called into meetings and met with business associates…
“The last line of defense has been to argue that while millions may have been sent to Biden family members in raw influence peddling, there is no evidence Joe actually benefited from the money as opposed to his children, brothers and grandchildren. This false narrative is being repeated despite the fact courts have rejected this claim in actual criminal cases…
“Not only have payments to children and other family members been viewed as benefits to a defendant, but the same is true in impeachments. I served as lead counsel in the last judicial impeachment tried before the Senate. My client, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, had been impeached by the House for, among other things, benefits received by his children, including gifts related to a wedding.”
Jonathan Turley, New York Post
“The White House is stonewalling House GOP demands for documents that might shed light on Joe’s interactions with his son. Government lawyers have accompanied witnesses to interviews and limited their responses. Hunter Biden on Wednesday defiantly refused to comply with duly issued subpoenas from two House committees. Republicans will now have to go to court to obtain cooperation, and formal impeachment authority gives them muscle in that fight.”
Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal
The left opposes the inquiry, arguing that Republicans do not have sufficient evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
The left opposes the inquiry, arguing that Republicans do not have sufficient evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
“One key piece of evidence Republicans have cited from [Hunter Biden’s business associate Devon] Archer’s testimony is that Biden participated in roughly 20 phone calls with Hunter’s business contacts. However, Archer stressed those encounters consisted of small talk like the weather and not issues of substance. Archer also testified that he hadn’t seen President Biden attempt to use his office to help Hunter advance his career…
“Overall, House Republicans’ investigations have not found any actual, concrete proof of wrongdoing by President Biden.”
Li Zhou, Vox
“Hunter Biden would never have earned most of the money he allegedly dodged paying — $1.4 million in federal taxes over four years — if not for his last name. Lacking experience in the energy sector, he had no other qualifications for the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian firm that hired him in 2014. That should have been a scandal when Joe Biden was vice president…
“It was also a mistake, albeit an understandable one, for the older Mr. Biden to insist later that his son had done ‘nothing wrong’ when he clearly has behaved so grossly — personally and professionally. Nor should the president have falsely claimed in October 2020 that his son ‘has not made money’ in China…
“But, while Hunter Biden used the illusion of access to make money, and coarsely invoked his father in text messages seeking payment from a Chinese business associate, that does not mean Joe Biden took official acts at the behest of his son. The legal process will now decide Hunter Biden’s fate, but, on the current evidence, the sins of the son should not be visited upon the father.”
Editorial Board, Washington Post
“Sustained scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings have turned up no evidence that Biden père committed any crime, despite the breathless talk of foreign cash coursing through ‘the Biden crime family’ and yet more lurid displays of the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. What’s more, even if shady facts about the president’s finances had come to light during these attention-grabbing hearings, the awkward fact remains that, during the period in question, Joe Biden was not holding public office…
“The articles of impeachment clearly lay out the conditions for prospective removal of a president as a result of the abuse of executive powers. If this fanciful version of impeachment were to stand, then a reelected Donald Trump could be hauled up on charges stemming from his sexual assault of Jean Carroll and his payoff of Stormy Daniels—acts that preceded his term in office and carry a good deal more moral and legal stigma than parental car loans.”
Chris Lehmann, The Nation
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