“What evidence do you present that there is a connection between Hunter Biden’s activities and Joe Biden at this point?” Rep. Ken Buck said of impeachment. “It’s a joke.”
When he announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry on President Joe Biden, Speaker Kevin McCarthy carefully avoided suggesting that House Republicans would inevitably reach the outcome many of his members are craving.
It’s unlikely these lawmakers, some of whom use phrases like the “Biden Crime Family” and loosely insist the president is guilty of criminal conduct, will be satisfied with an impeachment inquiry that does not result in an impeachment vote. In fact, starting an inquiry andultimately impeaching Biden may give the appearance that Republicans are actually acquitting the president.
But McCarthy is “under a lot of pressure to act, both inside and outside pressure,” said Buck, leading to the congressman’s concern that the impeachment effort will gain momentum—regardless of what facts are, or are not, unearthed. In 2019, when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into Trump for pressuring Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on Biden, RepublicansPelosi also launched the inquiry without a vote, which McCarthy and the Trump administration argued made the exercise illegitimate. Four years later, McCarthy has done the same thing, despite vowing to hold a vote first. He has since claimed he is merely following the precedent set by Pelosi.
Amid the palpable unease over impeachment, several Republican lawmakers insisted that McCarthy has not made an official vote—or widespread GOP support—a fait accompli.
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