Son of a Gun: Has the Joe Biden impeachment effort fizzled out?
By
Ashley Oliver
May 29, 2024 7:00 am
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Hunter Biden will stand trial next week on gun-related charges just as the GOP’s effort to untangle his web of foreign moneymaking fizzles out. While the political will to impeach President Joe Biden over any involvement in his family’s influence-peddling has all but disappeared, the belief that the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden favorable treatment has not. In this series, the Washington Examiner will look at where the saga stands on the eve of his first trial. Part one looked at the cases against him that never materialized. Part two will look at how the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is drawing to a close.House Republicans have dedicated enormous resources to investigating Joe Biden for impeachable offenses, but as his son Hunter prepares to defend himself in a criminal gun trial in less than one week, the president appears poised to avert his own trial before Congress.
Since Republicans took the majority, a trio of House committees have conducted numerous interviews and gathered thousands of documents showing Hunter Biden for years wielded Joe Biden’s political influence for profit.
However, implicating Joe Biden in his son’s business schemes has been a less cut-and-dry process for GOP lawmakers. It has consisted of sometimes hostile witnesses and competing testimonies, and it has been bogged down by an elaborate web of foreign entities and financial records that even politically savvy legal observers find tedious.
Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry say their work is not over and that a final report containing criminal referrals and other recommendations is forthcoming. While there are unknowns about what is to come, there are also no signs that an impeachment vote, never mind a successful vote that results in a Senate trial, will come to fruition.
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