The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution formalizing the impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden on the 13th. Congress will begin a full-fledged investigation into whether it is possible to pursue impeachment in relation to allegations that President Biden is involved in the bribery scandal of his second son, Hunter. As suspicions about President Biden’s family resurface, analysts say that the judicial risk of former and current presidents has emerged as a variable in the presidential election, along with the trial of former President Donald Trump, who was criminally indicted.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the resolution to investigate President Biden’s impeachment at the plenary session on this day with 221 votes in favor and 212 against. All Republicans were in favor and all Democrats were against.
This resolution is intended to formalize the impeachment investigation into President Biden by giving three Republican-led House committees the authority to continue the investigation and request relevant materials from the court. Previously, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered an impeachment investigation into President Biden ex officio this September, but the White House and the Democratic Party have raised legal issues about the impeachment investigation, which has not been voted on by Congress.
President Biden became the fifth U.S. president to be formally impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, following former presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Trump. The House Oversight Committee and others plan to investigate the president’s second son, Hunter, by focusing on receiving large sums of money from Ukrainian and Chinese energy companies. The Republican Party is attacking President Biden as a ‘Big Guy’, citing a former colleague of Hunter’s claim that “Hunter brought in billions of dollars from China and said 10% should be given to the ‘Big Guy’.”
However, Reuters and other sources reported that the probability that President Biden will actually be impeached approaches zero. A House committee investigated for three months under the direction of former Speaker McCarthy, but could not find evidence showing President Biden’s involvement, and even if the House passes an impeachment investigation and passes a bill to impeach President Biden, there is no possibility that the Senate will pass it. To impeach a U.S. president, more than two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate must vote in favor, but the Democratic Party holds the majority in the Senate.
While the trials of former President Trump, including charges of ‘attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election’, are scheduled to be held one after another until the presidential election next November, there is also an analysis that the Republican Party has pushed for an impeachment investigation of President Biden as a counter strategy. MSNBC reported that former President Trump’s side has been urging Republican House members to pass a resolution to investigate President Biden’s impeachment.
The White House and the Democratic Party are warning that the impeachment investigation will boomerang back to the Republican Party. In a statement on this day, President Biden criticized, “The Republican Party is focused on attacking me with lies,” and “Instead of doing urgent work, they are wasting time on baseless political stunts.”
However, there are also observations that it will be a burden on President Biden as the misconduct of his second son Hunter, the so-called ‘sore finger’ of President Biden, is receiving attention again. Hunter is already facing nine charges, including tax evasion and illegal gun possession. In the process, it was revealed that he spent more than 1.8 million dollars (about 2.3 billion won) on drug purchases and prostitution, causing controversy.
Hunter visited Congress this morning and claimed, “Trump has been attacking me for six years, asking, ‘Where is Hunter?’” and “My answer is, ‘I am here.’” He made a frontal assault by demanding that the House of Representatives, which had notified the House of Representatives of the private subpoena investigation into Hunter, should publicly investigate him.
Republicans plan to charge Hunter with contempt of Congress. Former President Trump also said in a speech in Iowa that day, “Where is Hunter?” and “He went to the Senate by mistake, not the House.” He mocked Hunter to the effect that he was protected by the Democratic-majority Senate.
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Source: Donga
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