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There is division in the Republican ranks regarding the potential impeachment of President Joe Biden based on his family’s business dealings during his tenure as vice president. In July, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said GOP lawmakers may consider an impeachment. However, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) opposed the idea, stating that impeachment is not currently being considered due to a lack of sufficient Republican votes.
Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman unpacks the so-called evidence against the president and concludes that whatever the GOP finally decides to do, there’s no substantial basis for impeachment.
Secondly, why would they impeach Joe Biden? It’s not even clear that they know. If you ask them, they say, “Biden crime family, influence peddling, blah blah blah [sic].” But when you really get down to it and investigate, the witnesses they claim they have, some have been missing for years. They don’t know where they are, they can’t get a hold of them. The audio recordings they claim to have, they actually don’t really have. Or if they do have transcripts, they don’t actually say the thing that they claim that they say.
All of the dominoes seem never to fall. Devon Archer recently testified behind closed doors — was a witness who was supposedly going to blow the roof off the entire Biden crime family. If anything, Devon Archer’s testimony made it seem like Joe Biden was not interfering in any way to help Hunter Biden’s business interests. And by the way, not that it would be right, but even if he had interfered to help Hunter Biden, it’s not clear that there would be any crime there, particularly if Joe Biden wasn’t an elected official at the time.
I, again, want to be crystal clear. I have no interest in protecting anyone. Go after whoever — cronyism, nepotism — it’s everywhere. Democrats, Republicans, it’s all over the place. That doesn’t mean it’s all equally criminal. That doesn’t mean it’s all impeachment-worthy. But I never would say out of hand, ‘Don’t investigate.’
I don’t care if you’re a current or former president or vice president. If it appears as though you did something wrong — and by wrong, it could be unethical or immoral, conflict of interest or actually criminal, two different categories — investigate it.
