White House rips ‘abusive’ impeachment inquiry in Biden as confidence starts to falter
By
Eden Villalovas
March 15, 2024 12:19 pm
White House counsel Edward Siskel sent a letter Friday morning to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), calling on the closure of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as Republicans start to acknowledge stalled efforts.
“I write to you today because it is clear the House Republican impeachment is over,” Siskel wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The four-page letter states House Republicans have held several public hearings, heard from 20 witnesses, and collected 100,000 pages of records but could not prove their allegations of the president’s involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings and financial benefits from his family’s foreign affairs.
Siskel said the impeachment inquiry, in part, is based on accusations by “troubling sources,” citing Alexander Smirnov allegedly making false claims to the FBI in 2020 about the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paying Joe Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each in 2015 and 2016. The claim has been a key point for House Republicans launching an impeachment inquiry into the president.
Siskel noted the House is bleeding Republicans, citing Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announcing his early exit next week. In explaining his decision to resign early after announcing he won’t run for reelection last year, Buck talked about how the allegations against Biden don’t warrant impeachment, adding his colleagues have “taken impeachment and made it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept.”
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