House Republicans published a nearly 300-page report Monday presenting lengthy evidence indicating President Joe Biden is guilty of “impeachable offenses.”
Republicans on the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees released the joint report following a year-long impeachment inquiry concluding “first and foremost, [the] overwhelming evidence demonstrates that President Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.”
The report says the current Democrat president, his family, and their associates capitalized on Biden’s occupation of high public offices to rake in $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014 through shell corporations designed “to conceal these payments from scrutiny.” This money came primarily from foreign adversaries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Romania, and Panama.
The committees counted an additional $8 million in supposed loans to Hunter Biden and James Biden from “Democratic benefactors.” That makes for a total of more than $35 million “sent to Biden family members, their companies, and business associates since 2013” for which no “legitimate services” were found to justify “such lucrative payments.”
“The Biden family used proceeds from these business activities to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden,” lawmakers reported, “including thousands of dollars that are directly traceable to China.” One former business partner said China had “compromised” Biden even before the 2020 election.
U.S. Government For Sale
House investigators found President Biden guilty of engaging in the kind of quid pro quo Democrats accused former President Donald Trump of in the Republican’s first impeachment five years ago.
“While Hunter Biden served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma from 2014 to 2019,” they wrote, “he utilized his father’s position to relieve pressure the company was under from a government investigation.”
“In doing so,” lawmakers explained, “Vice President Biden changed U.S. policy in order to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee until Ukraine took government action to stop the investigation into the company affiliated with Hunter Biden.”
Republicans pointed to the 2019 impeachment crusade as “precedent” for impeaching Biden. Then, Democrats under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defined “abuse of office” as “official power to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest.”
“By monetizing the Vice Presidency for his family’s benefit, [Joe Biden] abused his office of public trust, placing the welfare of his family ahead of the welfare of the United States,” the report charges.
Obstruction
House Republicans also accused the Biden administration of obstructing congressional investigators as lawmakers probed the First Family’s most recent decade of financial misconduct.
The White House, lawmakers wrote, “obstructed the Committees’ impeachment inquiry by withholding key documents and witnesses.” The administration also “impeded the Committees’ investigation of President Biden’s unlawful retention of classified documents, by refusing to make relevant witnesses available for interviews and by erroneously asserting executive privilege over audio recordings from Special Counsel [Robert] Hur’s interviews with President Biden.”
In February, Hur publicly declined to press the president with felonies related to mishandling classified information after his team found the 81-year-old commander-in-chief too senile to face federal charges.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” the Hur report read. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
In their report on Monday, Republicans highlighted Trump’s first impeachment to justify impeachment-level obstruction charges against Biden.
“Following the standard set by House Democrats in the impeachment of President Trump,” they wrote, “impeding an impeachment inquiry may amount to impeachable obstruction.”
Democrats Drop Biden After Covering For Him
With voting in some states beginning in one month, however, any Republican articles of impeachment would come not only after this year’s presidential election but also after Biden already decided to step down in January. Vice President Kamala Harris will replace Biden at the top of the Democrats’ November ticket in Chicago this week. In their report, Republicans vowed to press onward with their impeachment inquiry while Biden governs as a lame-duck president.
“Despite the cheapening of the impeachment power by Democrats in recent years, the House’s decision to pursue articles of impeachment must not be made lightly,” they wrote. “As such, this report endeavors to present the evidence gathered to date so that all Members of the House may assess the extent of President Biden’s corruption.”
In June, lawmakers referred Hunter Biden and James Biden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution for making false statements to protect the president. Hunter Biden will face trial next month in California for a series of federal tax charges following a conviction on gun crimes earlier this year.
