The president of the House of Representatives of USA, Kevin McCarthyfrom the opponent Republican Party, announced this Tuesday that it will begin a investigation for a possible political trial against the president Joe Biden for his son’s alleged illegal activities, Hunter Biden.
“I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden. In recent months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations about President Biden’s conduct: a culture of corruptionhe said in a statement, cited by the Sputnik news agency.
A White House spokesperson said on X (former Twitter) that this impeachment process, that is, impeachment is “extreme politics at its worst”.
“The House of Representatives has investigated the president for nine months and has found no evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, the government spokesman for oversight and investigations, wrote on that social network.
McCarthy, for his part, pointed out that The investigation will allow the Lower House committees to collect data specifics about the accusation against Biden of allegedly having abused his power when he was vice president in Barack Obama’s administration (2009-2017) to facilitate his son’s foreign business Hunter.
He also assured reporters in Congress that the president “lied to the American people about what he knew about his family’s businesses abroad,” the AFP news agency reported.
Impeachment against Hunter Biden
House Republicans, who have held the majority since January, are conducting a series of parliamentary investigations into the affairs of Hunter Biden, the president’s youngest son.
At the moment, this investigation has practically no chance of leading to Biden’s impeachment, since the Democrats have the majority of seats in the Senate, the chamber in charge of trying presidents.
Hunter Biden 53 years old, was left in the crosshairs for the businesses he did with China and Ukraine when his father was vice president, and the House of Representatives Oversight and Transparency Committee is already carrying out an investigation into his activities.
Biden has always publicly supported his son, who has a history of drug addiction and problems with the law.
The investigation for possible impeachment will be led by the chairman of the Oversight and Transparency Committee, James Comer, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith.
McCarthy He said he hoped Biden and his team to cooperate fully with the investigation.
Political pressure
The opening of a procedure political trial It has been demanded for months by the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party, with which McCarthy had to make numerous compromises to access power in January.
However, several legislators Moderate Republicans oppose this investigation, fearing that it would transform the procedure into a purely partisan exercise.
The US Constitution states that Congress can remove the president for “treason, bribery or other serious crimes and misdemeanors”.
Democrats responded that these efforts by the right are nothing more than smoke screens used to hide the legal problems that are accumulating for former President Donald Trump, criminally indicted four times in less than six months.
Until now, a president has never been removed from office in an impeachment trial in the history of the United States. Three were charged: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Trump in 2019 and 2021, but all were acquitted.
Richard Nixon he resigned in 1974 to avoid certain impeachment by Congress over the Watergate scandal, sparked by the theft of documents from the Watergate office complex in Washington, headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent attempt by the Nixon administration to cover up those responsible.
Source: Ambito
