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<\/div>\nKevin McCarthy has formally endorsed an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, bowed to pressure from his party’s hard right Tuesday and gave the go-ahead for an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry,” he said, saying the Democratic president lied to the American people about his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations about President Biden’s conduct,” he said. “Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption.”<\/p>\n
The business dealings of Joe Biden’s son Hunter while his father was vice president under Barack Obama have been a constant target of Republicans.<\/p>\n
No credible evidence has emerged so far, however, that the elder Biden was involved in anything illegal.<\/p>\n
Kevin McCarthy has been under pressure from the right-wing of the party, loyal to Donald Trump, for months to open an impeachment inquiry into 80-year-old Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
The White House immediately condemned the move, calling it “extreme politics at its worst.”<\/p>\n
“House Republicans have been investigating the President for 9 months, and they’ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, White House spokesman for oversight and investigations, said on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n
Kevin McCarthy, who was forced to compromise with the far-right of the party to win his powerful speaker’s post, said the “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption” against Biden “warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives.”<\/p>\n
Democratic lawmakers have denounced the move as a purely partisan exercise intended to exact revenge for the double impeachment by the House of former Republican President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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