REPORT OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OF JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAhttps://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-08-19-Report-of-the-Impeachment-Inquiry-of-Joseph-R--Biden-Jr--President-of-the-United-States.pdfMajority Staff Report of the
Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Committee on the Judiciary
Committee on Ways and Means
Prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives
118th Congress
In accordance with
H. Res. 918
August 19, 2024
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Constitution of the United States entrusts the House of Representatives with “the
sole Power of Impeachment.”1 When confronted with evidence that the President of the United
States may have engaged in “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,”2 it is
the House’s responsibility to conduct an impeachment inquiry and, when appropriate, prepare
articles of impeachment. In accordance with this obligation, and pursuant to direction from the
House, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the
Committee on Ways and Means have been conducting an inquiry to assess whether sufficient
evidence exists that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in impeachable conduct.3 As
described in this report, the Committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President
Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct. The Committees have prepared this report to inform
the House on the evidence gathered to date.
First and foremost, overwhelming evidence demonstrates that President Biden
participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family. Among
other aspects of this conspiracy, the Biden family and their business associates received tens of
millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments
would provide them access to and influence with President Biden. As Vice President, President
Biden actively participated in this conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his
family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on
speakerphone by Hunter Biden. For example, in 2014, Vice President Biden attended a dinner for
Hunter Biden with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina.4 Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5
million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a firm associated with Hunter Biden.5 Then, months later,
as Hunter Biden and his business associates continued to solicit more money from Baturina, Vice
President Biden participated in a phone call with Baturina and Hunter Biden where Vice
President Biden told Baturina, “you be good to my boy.”6 Moreover, President Biden knowingly
participated in this conspiracy. Based on the totality of the evidence, it is inconceivable that
President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by
abusing his office of public trust.
The evidence also establishes that the Biden family went to great lengths to conceal this
conspiracy. Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial
transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large
transactions into numerous smaller transactions. Substantial efforts were also made to hide
President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business activities
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