Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday that House Republicans will move ahead with an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
Questions about the business dealings of the president’s son Hunter have been raised since the Trump presidency, with a lot of speculation about whether Joe or other Biden family members benefited from his work. A rock-solid tie showing whether President Biden was an active participant in Hunter’s transactions is one of the chief things the House GOP will be investigating.
‘Today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’, McCarthy said, as he stood in front of three American flags in the US Capitol.
‘This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather the full facts and answers for the American public’, he added. ‘That’s exactly what we want to know – the answers.
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