House Republicans swatted aside Democratic attempts to derail the first impeachment inquiry into President Biden, even as the GOP’s witnesses said they don’t have the goods to bring a case against …
hearing, even as witnesses told the GOP they don’t have the goods to bring a case against the chief executive — yet.
“What were the Bidens selling to make all this money? Joe Biden himself,” Comer said, arguing that the then-vice president “spoke, dined and developed relationships” with associates of Hunter and James Biden. Smith went on to share that Ways and Means had obtained emails, text messages and worksheets produced by Shapley and Ziegler as part of an investigation into the first son that they said was derailed earlier this year.
But while witnesses expressed concern at the treatment of the IRS whistleblowers and alarm at the flagrant “influence-peddling” of the first son abroad and the dishonesty of the president, none were yet willing to state that the threshold for impeachment had been reached. “These are the Republicans’ own witnesses! Admitting there is not evidence to warrant this impeachment stunt [.] Proving this is nothing more than a baseless wild goose chase,” White House spokesman Ian SamsComer dismissed the Democrats’ criticism after the hearing, insisting that his colleagues were nowhere close to drafting impeachment articles against the president.
As with most Capitol Hill hearings on contentious matters, much of the six-hour proceeding was devoted to political sniping, blame-trading and political zingers. Often, the witnesses went several minutes at a time without speaking.
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