On September 25, 2019, the then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, announced that she would initiate constitutional accountability procedures against the then President, Donald Trump, or the so-called former President Donald Trump. isolation.
In the summer of that year, Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone conversation to open an investigation against Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, in exchange for withholding US arms support. According to Trump, Biden, as vice president, fired a Ukrainian prosecutor who wanted to investigate his son's Ukrainian business.
Finally, the Democratic-majority House voted against the president on charges that Trump abused his power when, in exchange for a favor, he was willing to authorize financial aid to Ukraine, which was already fighting with Russian forces.
Meanwhile, four years later, Biden's son is still a topic among Republicans, and this time even the Republicans have begun impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden, as they claim that Biden and his son received money from the Ukrainian company Burisma for years. .
They built a whole campaign to present Joe Biden and his family as corrupt, in the American right-wing media they were already talking about the Biden crime family, that is, the Biden crime family, because of which an FBI informant claimed that the Bidens were bribery.
The only problem is that in the meantime all the information turned out to be a lie.
Hunter Biden though Really hid it FBI informant Alexander Smirinov revealed last week that he received his salary from Burisma and did not pay taxes on it. He lied about it, that the Biden family had received money, for which the Department of Justice subsequently charged him. Additionally, in the meantime, it was also revealed that Smirnyov was also working with Russian intelligence They worked togetherHe obtained information about payments from the Russians.
So far, the claim has been weak
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced in September 2023 that he had asked several House committees to begin investigating the case in detail and gathering additional information regarding potential indictments.
Hearings began, but at the same time, apart from the above information, which later turned out to be false, they could not find any information incriminating the president. At most, his brother and son tried to take advantage of the potential advantages of their last name, but they could no longer prove that the president had anything to do with it.
For this reason, many Republicans did not want to formulate and then vote on the accusations against Biden, which are weaker than before after the new information that has emerged in the past few weeks.
According to Republican Representative David Joyce, although many accusations have been made, he has not yet seen evidence from his fellow representatives of the investigation. While Don Bacon, who has been skeptical of the proceedings from the beginning, says he has at least 20 to 30 Republican colleagues who wouldn't even vote for the charges, because their colleagues leading the investigation couldn't provide any evidence or the committee. a crime.
In addition, the already very narrow Republican majority recently became even narrower after losing a seat in the New York midterm elections, so Patrick McHenry is currently according to There is less than a fifty percent chance that accusations will be placed and voted on with your fellow faction members.
How do we move forward, Republicans?
After the FBI informant was convicted and the Russian lead was exposed, it is not surprising that Republican investigators are trying to separate the false evidence from the proceedings.
Jim Jordan, who belongs to the far right of the faction and chairs the House Legal Committee, said regarding the latest developments that it does not change the basic facts, while his colleague Representative James Comer claimed that their investigations were not even based on false information in the first place – and it is true. Several people were summoned earlier for interrogation on the basis of this.
a POLITICO According to his information, Republicans who want to oust Biden hope that Hunter Biden's hearing next week and the hearing of special prosecutor Robert Hoare regarding Biden's secret documents in March will give momentum to the whole process, which currently cannot show any tangible results.
According to press reports, representatives led by House Speaker Mike Johnson will sit in March to discuss whether to draft an indictment, but at the same time, as we indicated above, the faction is not united in favor of accountability, as at the present time, no They can accuse Biden of anything — even if he prepares the indictment, the chance of it being voted on is slim, because they would need almost every one of their representatives.
(Cover photo: US President Joe Biden speaks in the White House State Dining Room on February 13, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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