Impeachment investigation into ‘second son’s involvement in bribery suspicion’
Resolution passed with all Republicans in favor
Analysis of countermeasures against Trump’s trial
Biden: “Wasting time with political stunts”
Second son Hunter visits Congress to demand public investigation
U.S. President Joe Biden is making remarks on infrastructure construction at the White House in Washington on the 13th (pictured above). On the same day, his son Hunter held an outdoor press conference near the Capitol and claimed, “My father has nothing to do with the numerous allegations raised against me.” On this day, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to investigate whether it is possible to pursue impeachment regarding the president’s alleged involvement in his son’s alleged bribery. Washington = AP NewsisThe 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. President Biden criticized it as a “political show by the opposition Republican Party,” but with family suspicions coming into the spotlight again, legal risks for former and incumbent presidents are growing along with the trial of former President Donald Trump, who was criminally indicted on charges such as “attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.” Analysis suggests that it has emerged as a variable.
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 authorizing three Republican-led House committees 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 Hunter, 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 others reported that the probability that President Biden will actually be impeached is close to zero. This is because the House committee has investigated over the past three months but has not been able to 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.
Nevertheless, there is analysis that the Republican Party’s formalization of the impeachment investigation into President Biden is a ‘counterattack operation’. It is seen as a kind of ‘watering down’ for former President Trump’s trial to be held one after another until the presidential election in November next year. The White House is warning that the impeachment investigation will boomerang toward the Republican Party. In his statement that day, President Biden criticized, “Instead of doing urgent work, time is being wasted on unfounded political stunts.”
However, as the misconduct of his second son Hunter, the so-called ‘sore finger’ of President Biden, is receiving attention again, it is expected to be a burden for President Biden. 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 volunteered to hold a press conference in front of the Washington Congress on this day and said, “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 asking the House of Representatives, which had notified him of a private subpoena investigation, to publicly investigate him. Regarding his past drug addiction being revealed, he said, “They laughed at my struggle with addiction.”
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 “It looks like 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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