Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Sunday that Republicans have no evidence the president was bribed as he discussed his role in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday that House Republicans will launch a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
“Today, I directed our House committees to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” he said at a news conference. “This logical next step will give our committees the power to gather all the facts and answers for the American public.” Full Powers.” meeting. “These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction of justice and corruption that require further investigation by the House of Representatives.”
In an interview with Fox News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria BartiromoMcCaul spoke about his role in the Biden impeachment inquiry, saying that “the speaker entrusted him with assisting with oversight and government reform, respecting foreign policy and decisions that the president or vice president might have made at the time,” regarding the inflow of funds. [from China] Try to connect the two. “
The MP added: “We don’t have evidence now, but we may find it later.”
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House Republican leaders have previously focused on two allegations, in which Biden denied during a 2020 campaign debate that his son Hunter had received money from China and that he had not met one of his son’s Ukrainian business partners while he was vice president. One under former President Barack Obama.
Weekly newspaper McCall was contacted via email for further comment.
However, both of Biden’s claims are false based on recent sworn testimony from Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer, Axios reported on Wednesday. The White House strongly denies the accusations. These two claims are considered the basic basis for the Republican Party to justify its impeachment inquiry into Biden.
“Through our investigation, we found that President Biden did lie to the American people about his knowledge of his family’s overseas business dealings,” McCarthy said Tuesday in announcing the impeachment inquiry.
Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., insists there is evidence that Biden’s impeachment inquiry and Sunday said ‘the facts are everywhere’ In an interview with ABC News this week.
“There are text messages, emails, witnesses, whistleblowers, meetings, phone calls, dinners, you can’t say, ‘Hey, there’s a little smoke, we’re not going to follow the fire.'” As I understand it, the investigation gives us a greater Subpoena power. I want Joe Biden’s bank records, all of which should be on the table to prove the charges. We’re talking about a lot of money, we’re talking about bribes,” the congresswoman said.
Despite various claims that Biden took bribes, Democrats have continued to criticize the investigation, saying there is no evidence that the president did anything wrong and that he should not be impeached for his son’s actions.
Biden responded to the impeachment inquiry in a speech on Wednesday, saying: “I’m focused on what the American people want me to focus on… The best I can say is they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government.”
Meanwhile, some took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday to express their concerns about McCall’s statement.
“If you know you have no evidence, then there is no reason for this investigation to exist. You are not investigating to find evidence, you are investigating to solidify the evidence that you have,” Said one X user.
And reporter Aaron Rupar criticize republican congressmen and wrote: “McCall is now viewed as a ‘serious Republican.'”
