Kevin McCarthy, Republican “Speaker” of the House of Representatives, requested an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden this Tuesday.
The Republican counterattack. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he supports launching an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.
“I call on a committee of the House of Representatives to open a formal impeachment investigation,” declared the “Speaker” (equivalent to the Speaker of the National Assembly), believing that the President had “lied” to Americans about his son’s controversial affairs abroad.
The White House described the maneuver as “extremely political” a year before the presidential election. “House Republicans have investigated the president for nine months and have found not a single shred of evidence of wrongdoing.” said Ian Samsa White House spokesman on the social network X, formerly called Twitter.
Hunter Biden, target of the American right
Hunter Biden, the Democratic president’s fifty-year-old son, has become a favorite target of the American right. In particular, she accuses him of conducting questionable business dealings in Ukraine and China during Joe Biden’s term as Barack Obama’s vice president (2009-2017), thereby benefiting from his father’s networks and name.
The U.S. Constitution provides that Congress may impeach the president for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The opening of impeachment proceedings has been demanded for months by the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party, with which party leader Kevin McCarthy had to make numerous compromises in January in order to gain access to office.