'Look for the fire': 5 takeaways from Republicans' first impeachment hearing of Joe Biden
WASHINGTON - House Republicans worked to establish a basis to impeach President Joe Biden even as witnesses they invited said there lacked evidence the president benefited financially from foreign business dealings of his son Hunter Biden in exchange for steering U.S. foreign policy.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, opened Republicans’ first impeachment inquiry hearing Thursday accusing "the Bidens and their associates" of creating 20 shell companies that raked in more than $20 million, including when Biden was vice president.
“What were the Bidens selling to make all this money?” Comer said. “Joe Biden himself.”
Yet all three witnesses, including a constitutional lawyer and forensics expert, brought in by Republicans during the six-hour hearing told lawmakers the committee does not have evidence of an impeachable offense - that Joe Biden received payments and was bribed. The witnesses instead urged the committee to open an impeachment inquiry to keep digging.
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