Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced an impeachment investigation into President Biden, however then ran away and took no questions from reporters.
McCarthy mentioned partially:
That’s the reason as we speak, I’m directing our Home committees to open a proper impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This logical subsequent step goes to offer our committees full energy to collect the entire info and solutions for the American public. That’s what we need to know, and I imagine that the president will need to reply these allegations as effectively. That is going to be led by James Comer of the Committee on Oversight with coordination of James Jordan of the Judiciary Committee and James Smith of the Methods and Means Committee. Now I don’t make this determination flippantly.
Whatever the occasion or who you voted for, these info ought to concern all People. The American folks should know that public places of work aren’t on the market and that the federal authorities isn’t getting used to cowl up the actions of a politically related household. Now, I’d encourage the president and his group to totally cooperate with this investigation and the curiosity of transparency. We’re dedicated to getting the solutions for the American public, nothing roughly, and we are going to go wherever the proof takes us.
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Elsewhere in McCarthy’s remarks, he made reference to the ‘Biden household’ quite a few occasions, however he by no means made a single allegation solely in opposition to President Biden, which isn’t shocking as a result of Republicans haven’t been capable of finding any proof that the President did something mistaken.
Kevin McCarthy needed to announce the impeachment investigation himself as a result of he didn’t have the votes to go a decision launching the investigation by the complete Home. It was additionally telling that McCarthy didn’t take any questions from reporters, as a result of he knew that the allegations he was making wouldn’t stand as much as any scrutiny.
It’s by no means signal when one thing as critical as an impeachment investigation is launched in a three-minute media hit-and-run, however that’s the place Home Republicans are.
It’s additionally why they’re more likely to lose the Home majority in 2024.
