Last week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made headlines after he explicitly stated his belief that the Biden Family’s questionable financial practices and their financial ties to Hunter Biden’s allegedly illicit international influence peddling schemes are making impeachment of President Joe Biden increasingly likely.
You see, the Republicans’ fixation on Hunter Biden is not merely about exacting political revenge upon the Democrats for their mistreatment of Donald Trump when he was president.
There are legitimate concerns that, through the First Son’s purported illegal worldwide business deals, not only did the Biden Family benefit but Joe Biden himself financially benefited from these deals.
The Real Reason They’re Pursuing Hunter Biden
That is the real reason why the GOP is intensely investigating Hunter Biden.
It isn’t about the salacious images of the First Son engaged in sex acts with escorts.
Or Hunter Biden’s various Baby Mamas.
Nor is the Republican investigation about humiliating an obvious drug addict. These are all extensions of the real concerns that the GOP has.
And those concerns revolve not just around Hunter Biden leveraging his father’s various positions in government to extract high payments from foreign governments and multinational corporations.
That’s bad enough.
The Republican concern is that through Hunter Biden, foreign governments – notably the People’s Republic of China – gained exclusive access to Joe Biden who, in order to earn his keep, may have altered U.S. foreign policy to suit the needs of his Chinese benefactors.
To be clear: the impeachable offense we’re talking about is treason.
While McCarthy’s comments were the most explicit that a high-ranking member of the GOP has made about impeaching President Biden, many on the Right are upset that the unpopular speaker failed to give a timeline.
But a timeline at this point would prove difficult.
First, the Republicans have to find explicit links between Hunter Biden’s businesses and Joe Biden.
Thus far, they’ve found only circumstantial evidence.
I do believe that if the GOP probes deep and long enough, they will find those financial ties.
The purpose, though, is to prove the real criminal – treasonous – behavior of a sitting president.
That means this is going to take time.
Making accusations is one thing. If the GOP is serious about successfully ousting Biden from office, they need more than innuendo and suspicion.
It’s Not Just Political Revenge
Speaking for myself, pursuing Hunter Biden in the hopes of impeaching the sitting president is not about political revenge.
I fear that for many on the Right, it’s simply about getting even with the Democrats for their impeachment mania – based on false premises – of former President Donald Trump.
But, if the accusations about Hunter Biden being a conduit for foreign influence over his father are true, then the GOP needs to have all its political and legal ducks in a row.
This isn’t about Hunter Biden.
This is about protecting the country from a president who may be compromised by foreign intelligence services.
Republicans critical of McCarthy’s ambiguous timeline need to understand what’s going on. Sure, many Republicans do not want to go too hard after Biden.
On some level, these Republicans actually like Joe Biden because they’ve known and worked alongside him for years.
In other cases, they don’t see much wrong with what Joe Biden and his family did – everyone in Washington, D.C. engages in influence-peddling. That’s one, sad reason why the seven wealthiest zip codes in America ring Washington, D.C.
Yet, there is a legitimate reason behind not giving a timetable. Proving the accusations true, while possible, is going to be a lengthy process.
If the Republicans pull the trigger too early on the matter, they risk the entire case collapsing and looking like fools.
Slow-and-Steady Wins the Race
There should be no rush on this matter.
What should be done is that Republican voters mount a consistent pressure campaign directed against the GOP to ensure that they don’t get cold feet.
Make no mistake, though, the Republican Party is serious about pursuing Hunter Biden.
And their pursuit of the First Son has nothing to do with humiliation or mocking addiction, as the Democrats keep charging.
It has to do with proving very serious concerns that the forty-sixth president has been compromised by foreign governments and is shaping American policies to benefit those foreign governments – in exchange for vast sums of money.
Democrats are really scared about this investigation, their haughtiness in the press notwithstanding. Everyone knows that Hunter Biden has been engaging in this influence-peddling scheme for years. It shouldn’t be that difficult to find linkages to Joe Biden. If the Republicans can prove such links, the Democrats know that Biden’s days as president will be numbered.
A 19FortyFive Senior Editor, Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books), and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (July 23). Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
