From Le Figaro with AFP
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Joe Biden. LEAH MILLIS / Portal
Conservatives accuse the American president of using his influence as Barack Obama's vice president (2009-2017) to enable his son Hunter to conduct questionable business deals in China and Ukraine.
The US Congress officially opened an impeachment inquiry against US President Joe Biden on Wednesday. The conservatives, who make up the majority in one of the two chambers of the American Congress, accuse the tenant of the White House of having used his influence during his time as vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) to enable his son Hunter to do so Do questionable business in China and Ukraine.
This approach has almost no chance of success, but could become a headache for the White House ahead of the November 2024 presidential election in which Joe Biden is running. “Joe Biden has repeatedly lied to the American people,” accused the chairman of the House Investigation Committee, James Comer, from the chamber.
Hunter Biden, the American president's son, held a rare press conference on Wednesday to clear his father of any involvement in his controversial affairs, which have come under scrutiny from Republican opposition. “Let me say this as clearly as possible: my father was never financially involved in my affairs,” the fifty-year-old told the American Congress in a serious tone.
The White House, which maintains the greatest possible distance from the impeachment proceedings initiated by conservatives, limited itself on Wednesday to the remark that Hunter Biden, as a “citizen,” had “spoken from the heart.” President Joe Biden was “aware” of what his son would say, his spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said during his regular news conference.