Due to their suspicions that President Joe Biden may have tried to obstruct his son Hunter Biden’s assistance with the House’s impeachment investigation, two Republican committee chairmen have expanded their probe into the president.
The GOP leaders, Kentucky’s James Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, and Ohio’s Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, focused on a formal White House statement that implied President Biden was aware of Hunter’s scheme to evade congressional subpoenas beforehand.
The chairmen released a joint statement that read, “We are compelled to examine as part of our impeachment inquiry whether the President engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress in light of an official statement from the White House that President Biden was aware in advance that his son, Hunter Biden, would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas.”
In a letter to Edward Siskel, an assistant to Biden and the White House Counsel’s Office, the two GOP leaders noted:
Accordingly, and pursuant to the impeachment inquiry, please produce the following information for the period January 20, 2021, to the present:
1. All documents and communications sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding the deposition of Hunter Biden, including but not limited to communications with Hunter Biden, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Kevin Morris; and
2. All documents and communications sent or received by employees of the Executive Office of the President regarding President Biden’s statement about his family’s business associates on December 6, 2023. Please produce this information as soon as possible but no later than January 10, 2024.
“There are enough grounds to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for the full House to consider,” the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (the Oversight Committee) and the House Committee on the Judiciary (the Judiciary Committee, and together with the Oversight Committee, the Committees) are looking into. In a note dated September 27, 2023, we jointly submitted with House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith the supporting documentation for the inquiry and the extent of this impeachment investigation.2. The House of Representatives instructed the Committees to carry out this examination until December 13, 2023,” the letter stated.
Earlier last month, the House took a formal vote to approve its investigation into the possibility of President Biden’s impeachment.
Speaking recently on the investigation into Joe Biden’s impeachment, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stated, “We have a responsibility to do it.”
“This is a very serious matter, and these are serious times.” And as the matter of impeachment has become all too familiar to us over the past several years, I have stated numerous times that, aside from the Declaration of War, one could argue that impeachment is the most powerful tool at Congress’s disposal. Adding, “The House has a constitutional responsibility for that,” he said during a press conference last month.