House Speaker Mike Johnson will call a House vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, a “necessary step” after weeks of “stonewalling” from the White House, he said Saturday.
“The White House is blocking us,” Johnson told Fox News, describing how House committees have been methodically stymied in their attempts to investigate corruption allegations in connection with his questionable foreign business profits. son Hunter Biden.
“They are preventing at least two or three witnesses from the Department of Justice, a former White House counsel, from coming forward,” Johnson said. “The White House has withheld thousands of pages of evidence.”
The vote will likely take place this month, before the House takes a holiday recess on December 15.
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told a closed-door meeting of Republican lawmakers that the administration had produced only 14 of the roughly 82,000 pages of Biden emails it sent or received under pseudonyms during his eight years of vice presidency.
“The White House is blocking us,” Johnson said in announcing his plans to call a vote on the impeachment inquiry. ZUMAPRESS.com
Hunter Biden, 53, and the president’s brother James, 73, are due to testify under subpoena this month about the family’s interactions with business partners from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
White House counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams insisted Friday that Biden had cooperated with congressional document requests, providing “more than 35,000 pages of private financial records” and “more than 2,000 pages of reports.” financial institutions of the Treasury Department.
But Republicans maintain that key pieces of evidence, including Air Force Two flight manifests, visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware residences, details about the sales of the first son’s rookie artwork and the contents of the classified documents that were illicitly stored in Biden’s home remain confidential. wrappers.
Biden has dismissed the House investigation as illegitimate. REUTERS
In September, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ordered House committees to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden, but never brought the matter to a floor vote following opposition from Republicans. undecided districts.
The White House has dismissed the investigation as illegitimate without the blessing of a House vote.
“We are the rule of law team,” Johnson said. “We have to do it very methodically.”
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