President Joe Biden laughed off a question on Thursday about whether he would share his banking information with Republicans in Congress who are investigating his son Hunter’s business deals and threatening to open an impeachment inquiry.
Biden made a surprise visit to FEMA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters amid the agency’s response to Hurricane Idalia and in the aftermath of the deadly wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
There, the 80-year-old president answered several questions from reporters after delivering pizzas and addressing FEMA staff.
After answering questions about overdose awareness day, a possible government shutdown, and speaking to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was battling another health issue earlier this week, he laughed when asked if he wanted to hand over his bank details to the House GOP.
“Let’s talk about why I’m here,” he said, then answered an additional question about whether he wanted Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend India’s G20 summit next week, revealing he would be traveling to Florida on Saturday. travel to survey the storm damage.
President Joe Biden laughed off a question on Thursday about whether he would share his banking information with Republicans in Congress who are investigating his son Hunter’s business deals and flirting with opening an impeachment inquiry
Biden has consistently dismissed questions about Republicans’ House of Representatives investigations into son Hunter’s business deals in Ukraine and China, but Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy upped the ante on Sunday by saying an impeachment inquiry ” is a natural step forward’.
“That gives Congress the pinnacle of legal power to get all the information it needs,” the California Republican said in an interview on Fox News.
Despite no solid evidence linking the president to his son’s business dealings, which took place at the height of Hunter’s crack cocaine addiction, McCarthy insisted there was a “culture of corruption throughout the Biden family.” ‘
On Friday, That reports NBC News that the White House had set up a “war room” of 20 lawyers, legislative aides and communications staff to respond aggressively to a Republican impeachment inquiry, which comes as Biden runs for re-election.
Sources told the network the “war room” team is planning a vigorous response and will characterize the Republican party’s efforts as a fact-free, partisan sham that showcases the party’s “tendency for chaos,” according to NBC.
“If you compare this to past impeachments, it’s not an apples-to-apples, or even apples-to-oranges issue; it’s apples to elephants,” a White House official told NBC. “Never in modern history has an impeachment been based on no evidence.”
It comes as no surprise that some of the loudest voices supporting impeachment are also top surrogates for former President Donald Trump.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (left) said Sunday that an impeachment inquiry “is a natural step forward” as House Republicans have examined Hunter Biden’s (right) foreign business deals and related them to have brought with President Joe Biden.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday laid out her demands to help prevent a government shutdown, including launching an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene told voters Thursday night that she would not vote to fund the administration unless Republicans in the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
“I’ve already decided I won’t vote to fund the government unless we pass an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden,” Greene said at a Floyd County, Georgia town hall.
She also urged Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has now indicted Trump twice, to halt the funding and fire Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss.
Weiss, a Trump appointee, was elevated to special counsel last month by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
He oversees Hunter Biden’s tax and gun case in Delaware federal court.
Greene’s announcement received cheers and applause from the conservative public.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement Thursday evening: “The last thing the American people deserve is for extreme members of the House of Representatives to trigger a government shutdown that hurts our economy, undermines our disaster preparedness and forces our troops to work without guarantees. pay.’
The Republicans in the House of Representatives responsible for keeping the government open have already made a promise to the American public about government funding, and it would be a shame for them to break their word and abandon the country, because they in prioritizing their party’s hardcore fringe. An unwarranted high-stakes impeachment stunt needs a lot of attention from Americans — like fighting the fentanyl trade, protecting our national security and funding FEMA,” he added.
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