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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced that the House will open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over a variety of alleged crimes, skipping a formal House vote he had previously teased.
According to McCarthy, Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan will spearhead it.
“Biden used his official office to coordinate with Hunter Biden’s business partners, about Hunter’s role in Burisma – the Ukrainian energy company,” said McCarthy, adding “it appears that the president’s family has been offered special treatment by Biden’s own administration.”
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McCarthy had earlier on Tuesday backed an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“Today I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the American public,” McCarthy said at a press conference.
The House speaker claimed Tuesday that Biden had lied to the American people about his knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings.
The impeachment inquiry will be led by GOP Rep. James Comer, Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, in coordination with Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan of Ohio and Rep. Jason Smith, Mo., who chairs the Ways and Means Committee.
Senate Republicans are skeptical that the House has enough evidence to justify an impeachment inquiry.
The Republican-led House Oversight committee launched an investigation in January into allegations that Biden profited from his son Hunter’s business dealings while he was vice president.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the oversight committee, called the GOP investigation “a complete and total bust” in a statement Monday.
“The voluminous evidence they have gathered, including thousands of pages of bank records and suspicious activity reports and hours of testimony from witnesses, overwhelmingly demonstrates no wrongdoing by President Biden and further debunks Republicans’ conspiracy theories,” Raskin said.
Speaking to reporters Monday night, McCarthy claimed that new revelations were turning up each day, citing Biden’s use of pseudonyms on emails when he was vice president.
“It only raises more and more questions, and we’re gonna have to find the answers,” McCarthy said Monday. “And this is all information that just has been coming forward that we’ve been able to find out. But the other information is we find that the Biden family delays everything. It benefits them to delay the information. The American public deserves to know.”