The Washington Examiner’s Ashley Oliver argued Thursday that House Republicans haven’t done a good job so far at connecting President Joe Biden to his son’s foreign business dealings, which is key to their impeachment effort of the president.
The House Oversight Committee just finished its second public impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday, which furthered its investigation into the president and whether or not he was involved in the foreign business deals made by Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Oliver argued that House Republicans have been able to show Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president’s brother, were “raking in a lot of money” overseas over the last few years, and that the use of their last name helped them in making deals with other countries, such as China, Ukraine, and Romania.
“So they’ve done a good job of that, but they haven‘t actually done, I don’t think, a conclusive job of tying Joe Biden to these business endeavors,” she said in an interview on C-SPAN. “I think they’ve shown that Joe Biden was on phone calls or present at meetings, but they haven‘t showed that he changed U.S. policy or made money himself off of these business endeavors, and those are the types of things I think that they would expect to rise to an impeachable offense. And because they haven‘t conclusively shown that, they have Ukraine story and Joe Biden firing that prosecutor, but there are significant counterpoints to that that the Democrats have made.”
Oliver argued that this failure by the House Oversight Committee to connect the president to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings is detrimental to any potential impeachment vote as the party’s majority in the House is only by six seats, meaning that securing a simple majority would be very unlikely without the party showing definitive evidence of the president’s involvement with his son’s business deals.
About what next steps the House Republicans will take in their pursuit to impeach Biden, Oliver said that the party is planning to release a comprehensive report of their findings from the last six months. While it is not clear when this report will be released, there are a number of steps that could be taken by the party.
“What they could do is make criminal referrals if they find that is necessary,” Oliver said. “They could simply introduce a legislative package to address what they have described as influence peddling, which I think Democrats and Republicans could find a little bit of common ground on. Or they could push to hold a vote to impeach Joe Biden, but the GOP conference on the whole has not signaled that they have an appetite for that at this stage.”
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Tony Bobulinski, a Navy veteran, testified Wednesday during the House’s impeachment inquiry hearing about his past business endeavors with Biden family members, during which he referred to Joe Biden as “a serial liar and fabulist now under this impeachment investigation for public corruption.” He also referred to the president’s brother as “a 75-year-old man who cannot keep his lies straight, including under oath.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said he plans to invite the president to testify on Capitol Hill “in the coming days.” White House spokesman Ian Sams responded to this announcement as “a sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment,” encouraging the Kentucky lawmaker to “call it a day.”