Kevin McCarthy says he announced Biden impeachment inquiry without a House vote because of PELOSI: Defiant Speaker says Nancy broke precedent when she moved to try Trump after January 6

Speaker Kevin McCarthy says it is his predecessor’s fault for launching an impeachment inquiry against President Biden without a vote in the full House.

The speaker vowed for months not to politicize the impeachment process.

Four years ago, he hit Nancy Pelosi so hard for not holding a formal vote to initiate the trial that she changed course and voted on the impeachment inquiry five weeks after announcing the investigation.

But on Tuesday he stunned Washington when he unilaterally declared the start of the impeachment inquiry without a vote in the full House.

“She changed that,” McCarthy said, referring to Pelosi.

‘That’s how you do that. So I warned her not to do it that way during the process, and that’s what she did, so that’s what we do.”

In a brief statement to the press, he accused President Biden of “abuse of power” and involvement in a “culture of corruption” because of son Hunter’s foreign business deals.

“She changed that,” McCarthy said, referring to Nancy Pelosi. ‘That’s how you do that. So I warned her not to do it that way during the process, and that’s what she did, so that’s what we’re doing.”

The speaker has emphasized that the investigation is intended to give more weight to congressional subpoenas amid “stonewalling” from agencies like the FBI and the Justice Department.

But less than two weeks ago, the speaker told Breitbart that a formal investigation would require a vote by the entire House.

“Opening an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes. The American people deserve to be heard on this issue through their elected representatives,” he said in an interview published on September 1.

House Democrats conducted an impeachment inquiry into former President Trump for more than a month before voting on a set of standardized rules for the trial in October 2019. Trump was subsequently impeached for his phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in December 2019.

Pelosi announced a second impeachment inquiry into former President Trump two days after January 6, 2021 – without a vote in the full House – and on January 13, Trump was impeached again.

None of the Senate trials ended with a conviction of the former president.

On October 3, 2019, McCarthy, then the majority leader, wrote a letter to Pelosi demanding that she suspend Trump’s impeachment inquiry until she holds a full House vote to establish “transparent and fair rules and procedures.”

Rank-and-file Republicans in the House of Representatives so far don’t seem bothered by the unilateral impeachment declaration — a declaration that helps Republicans from districts Joe Biden won in 2020 avoid a contentious vote.

“Having spent my career as an NYPD detective, I know the value of seeking the truth through finding the facts, and I would like to know exactly what the truth is behind the allegations surrounding President Biden.” said GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, from a battleground district in New York.

“I think there should be a vote, but I’m willing to go ahead with it,” said Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., a frequent McCarthy critic who endorses his impeachment proceedings.

“It was all made possible because a precedent was set, and people can thank Nancy Pelosi for that. So the impeachment inquiry has been launched and I’m happy about that,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., told DailyMail.com.

The full House voted to authorize impeachment investigations against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, but there is nothing in the House rules or the Constitution that requires a vote.

Republicans are taking the Biden family’s business deals with a sharp toothbrush after claiming to have uncovered about $20 million in foreign payments to members of the Biden family.

They have not yet linked any payments directly to Joe Biden’s bank account. Instead, they point to actions like his threat to withhold aid from Ukraine if the country did not fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin — who investigated the energy company Burisma where his son served on the board — when he was vice president.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer has already told Congress that Biden has had contact with Hunter’s business partners about 20 times over the course of a decade. Other FBI and IRS whistleblowers have alleged that the investigation into the president’s son’s alleged tax crimes has been slow.

Archer testified that Hunter sold the “Biden brand” to his employees, and just hearing the vice president’s voice on speed dial was enough to convince them to cash in. Emails and testimony have revealed that Joe Biden attended a dinner with Hunter, Archer and foreign oligarchs who paid his son twice at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C.