US Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he has directed Home committees to open a proper impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“Over the previous a number of months, Home Republicans have uncovered severe and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct — a tradition of corruption,” McCarthy stated in a press release launched by way of his skilled Twitter/X account.
The allegations stem from extensively reported accounts of the international enterprise dealings of Hunter Biden, the president’s son. In July, a bipartisan group representing the US Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability questioned a former enterprise affiliate of Hunter Biden’s, with questions starting from the president’s involvement in his son’s every day life to his son’s extremely publicized struggles with habit.
“Via our investigations we have now discovered that President Biden did misinform the American folks about his personal information of his household’s international enterprise dealings,” the speaker stated.
Three US presidents have been impeached by the Home: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Invoice Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump twice, in 2019 and 2021. Not one of the three presidents had been convicted by the Senate and faraway from workplace. Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Workplace Act, which prohibited him from eradicating his secretary of struggle with out the consent of the Senate. He was acquitted by the Senate by a single vote. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice associated to his affair with White Home intern Monica Lewinsky. He was acquitted by the Senate on each prices. Trump was impeached for abuse of energy and obstruction of Congress associated to his efforts to strain Ukraine to research his political rivals. He was acquitted by the Senate on each prices.
