Impeachment Hearings Against Joe Biden

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House Republicans launched their first formal impeachment hearing against Joe Biden on Thursday, as they try to link the president to his son Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings.

Democrats argue Republicans don't have enough evidence

 

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Tensions soar between Dems, GOP at impeachment inquiry: 'Can the gentlelady read a bank statement?'​

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Tensions are boiling over between Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., repeated claims by Democrats that Republicans have no evidence with which to impeach President Biden.

"If my Republican colleagues had a so-called smoking gun, they would have presented it by now and would have talked about it non-stop," she said.

Chairman James Comer pointed to the stash of documents and other materials that they say is evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden related to his business dealings.

"Can the gentlelady read a bank statement, an email, a text message?" Comer responded.

Lee ignored the chairman: "Instead we're sitting here with no fact witnesses and no evidence in this sham so-called impeachment to distract from their inability to fulfill their basic duty."

Democrats have been pointing to the looming government shutdown, which could come this weekend if a spending bill is not agreed to, as a sign Congress should be focused on other issues.

 

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Dem rebuffed on question about if criminal act is required for impeachment​

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A House Democrat was rebuffed in his line of questioning when he quizzed a legal witness about whether an impeachment requires a clear criminal action -- before he quickly moved on.
Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-NY, asked Professor Jonathan Turley, who was a witness invited by Republicans, if he had said during the 2019 impeachment of former President Donald Trump that "impeachment requires a clear criminal act."

Turley, however, said that was not the testimony he gave.

"No, in fact in the Trump impeachment I said repeatedly you can impeach someone for non-criminal conduct, what I said then and I'm saying now is that i strongly encourage you to look at criminal activity..."

"Ok well that testimony is there," he interrupted.

Turley then asked if he could finish his point.

"No you can't, because I have 10 seconds left."

Goldman asked if he would acknowledge that there must be an "official act connected to some sort of benefit." But Turley said it was not a yes or no question, and Goldman's time had then expired.

 

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Mace calls Dem claims on impeachment push 'complete and total bullsh!t'​

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., used some spicy language to call out Democrats on the committee for their dismissal of Republican criticism of President Biden's conduct related to his family's business dealings.

Mace pointed to a 2017 deal with Chinese company CEFC, alleging the deal involved making millions "off of granting access to Joe Biden."

"Hunter even arranged for Joe Biden to share office space with the CCP aligned company CEFC," she said.

"My Democrat colleagues say none of this is relevant because Joe Biden wasn't vice president while his family did these shady deals," she said. "Turns out that's complete and total bulls---. It's a lie."

"Biden referred to access his father as the keys to his family's only asset. Those words are going to come back and haunt Hunter Biden and his family forever," she said.

It's the latest moment in a fiery hearing that has seen Democrats and Republicans trade barbs over the impeachment inquiry -- with Democrats accusing Republicans of a lack of evidence of any wrongdoing from Biden.

Republicans, meanwhile, have said GOP-led investigations have uncovered how the Biden family created over 20 shell companies that raked in more than $20 million between 2014 and 2019.