Marjorie Taylor Greene says Biden’s impeachment inquiry will unmask ‘EVERYONE’ who ‘covered up his crimes’
Marjorie Taylor Greene says it is as important to expose the people she says helped “cover up” the president’s illegal actions as it is to expose Joe Biden’s crimes in the impeachment inquiry.
The Republican congressman from Georgia also pushed back on claims that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy “threatened” to open the impeachment inquiry against Biden.
Rep. Greene said impeachment is really about the entire web of corruption within the Biden family and circle, and said the investigation will expose “everyone involved.”
“We must spend as long as it takes to investigate Joe Biden’s crimes,” she told reporters outside the Capitol on Tuesday. “But we also need to expose every person who covered him up — and I think that’s just as important in the investigation of Joe Biden.”
“Any unelected bureaucrat who receives a taxpayer-funded salary should never cover up the crimes of a politician, and the American people deserve to know their names,” Greene added.
McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, the same day the House resumed after its August recess.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that impeachment is about more than just Joe Biden — and said the investigation will expose the corruption of “everyone” who helped commit the president’s “crimes” blur’
Critics allege that McCarthy was pressured or threatened by MAGA Republicans to open the impeachment inquiry or they would begin the process of removing him from his position as chairman.
But Greene says this isn’t true.
“We need an impeachment inquiry, and I’m thrilled that Chairman Kevin McCarthy launched one today, but I also think it’s unfair to say he did it under threat. He didn’t do that,” she assured conservative host Eric Bolling. “If anyone looks at his interviews and his statements, especially during the August recess, he has said over and over again that we need an impeachment inquiry, and he has stated all the reasons for the case.”
She added, “I think we have to give credit to Kevin McCarthy.”
“He’s doing the right thing, and he’s actually leading the House and opening the impeachment inquiry that I asked for, Eric, and I’m very happy about it, and I really want that to happen, and I don’t want anyone to do that “to stop it,” the Georgian congressman said in the interview on Tuesday.
Greene emphasized that there is no quid pro quo when it comes to impeachment.
Opening the investigation is the first step in the impeachment process and gives the House of Representatives greater powers to subpoena information and individuals to testify in the investigation. This could even lead to President Biden or his son Hunter, 53, being subpoenaed.
The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), is leading the impeachment inquiry, with supporting roles from the Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and the Ways and Means Panel , chaired by Rep. Jason Smith’s (R-Mo.).
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry against Biden on Tuesday. Representative Greene rejected claims that he “threatened” to initiate the investigation
Greene’s fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is warning McCarthy that impeachment will not appease the party’s right wing, which has opposed his rise to chairman from the start.
“I’ve fallen for this mirage before,” Gaetz said of the recently announced impeachment inquiry.
The Florida Republican recalled that McCarthy went to the southern border to “gaslight” efforts to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“It’s clear that McCarthy did not take Mayorka’s ouster seriously,” Gaetz said.
“The first thing that happens is Kevin McCarthy worries about losing power, as he did in January, and as he did in recent weeks as I increased the pressure on him, and then the second thing he does is give that there is an impending impeachment or impeachment inquiry, and the reality so far is just a slow boat to China. It hasn’t been authentic, genuine or robust.”