Washington Examiner’s Ashley Oliver says House has so far failed to connect Biden to son’s foreign business dealingsargued 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 theirCommittee 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, the...
“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.
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, 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.