Until now, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has avoided suggesting that President Joe Biden could be impeached for corrupt acts he allegedly engaged in while he was vice president in 2015 and 2016.
Last month, McCarthy killed an effort by the Right flank of the Republican Conference to impeach Biden over his mishandling of the southern border. Things are different this time.
The House speaker told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Biden denied that he or his family ever “received a dollar from China, which we now prove is not true.”
“… [T]his is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed,” McCarthy said. “Because this president has also used something that we have not seen since Richard Nixon, used the weaponization of government to benefit his family and to deny Congress the ability to have oversight.”
McCarthy Likely Shares Dershowitz Impeachment Reasoning
McCarthy’s hesitancy to move forward with impeaching Biden over the border and willingness to consider impeachment over the bribery and cover-up allegations likely follows the reasoning of former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Dershowitz was critical of impeaching Biden over the border for the same reason he defended former President Donald Trump against his first impeachment during the Senate trial in 2020: the impeachment power was not intended for confronting a president’s malfeasance in office. Dershowitz noted that it was a constitutional question whether Biden could be impeached for his alleged involvement in Hunter Biden’s shakedown of a Chinese businessman during the period between his presidency and vice presidency.
Dershowitz wrote: “If Republican House members are determined to impeach Biden, they should focus their investigative resources on specific allegations of serious crimes which, if true, may rise to the level of a possibly impeachable offense. It will not do to rely on vague, partisan accusations of misconduct which, even if true, would not satisfy the criteria for impeaching and removing a duly elected president, as they themselves recently argued.”
Allegations in FD-1023 Form Fit Framer’s Intent for Impeachment
The alleged bribery contained in the FD-1023 document, dated June 30, 2020, is precisely what the Framers of the U.S. Constitution created the impeachment power to confront.
What is more disturbing is that the FBI and the Justice Department have ceased to be impartial adjudicators of the law. During the 2020 election, both knew about Joe Biden’s alleged corruption.
At the same time, FBI lied and used fabricated and unsubstantiated evidence about Trump’s alleged Russia collusion to tie up his administration in investigative knots for years. Democrats impeached Trump in 2019 because he dared to ask about the exact alleged corruption found in the FD-1023. They were intent on keeping the American voters from knowing the truth by painting Trump as the villain and Biden as the victim.
Did the FBI and Justice Department Become Partisan?
The FD-1023 showing that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each may have accepted a $5 million bribe from Burisma boss Mykola Zlochevsky was suppressed by the FBI from congressional review until June. It took threatening FBI Director Christopher Wray to get it handed over to Congress.
Democrats were particularly irate that former FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails days before the 2016 election and blamed it for her loss.
Many experts say there’s no doubt there are Democrats in the bureaucracy who were part of the so-called resistance and wanted to avoid seeing that happen again. The FBI and Justice Department became defenders of the interests of the Democratic Party and the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party instead of upholders of impartial justice. The FBI and the Justice Department are supposed to be above politics, but they seem to have forgotten that.
If IRS investigators Gary Shapely and Joseph Ziegler are telling the truth, then the Justice Department obstructed justice in the days before the 2020 election to keep bad news about Joe Biden hidden, which could have handed Donald Trump a second term.
Had the Justice Department allowed the raid against Hunter Biden to go forward, or had the FD-1023 been disclosed during the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden could have lost the election. That would have been too much for the Democratic Party activists in the Justice Department to bear.
Now with Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer set to testify to Congress that Joe Biden was directly involved in their business activities impeachment becomes more likely.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting. He writes from a conservative perspective.
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