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WASHINGTON. – Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, propelling Congress toward a contentious and unlikely-to-succeed effort to remove the Democratic president that follows two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
McCarthy’s move sets the stage for months of divisive House hearings that could distract from congressional efforts to avoid a government shutdown and could supercharge the 2024 presidential race in which Trump hopes to avenge his 2020 election loss to Biden and win back the White House.
White House spokesperson Ian Sams said Republicans have turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.
“Extreme politics at its worst,” Sams wrote on social media.
Republicans, who now narrowly control the House, have accused Biden of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009 to 2017 from his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business ventures, though they have not presented substantiation.
Biden previously had mocked Republicans over a possible impeachment. No US president has ever been removed from office by impeachment, but the procedure – once a rarity – has now become commonplace. “I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said. – Reuters
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