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<\/div>\nThe 80-year-old Democrat Joe Biden remained silent on impeachment inquiry so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The White House on Wednesday rejected “baseless” allegations of wrongdoing against US President Joe Biden after Republican lawmakers launched an impeachment inquiry against him.<\/p>\n
While the 80-year-old Democrat remained silent when asked by reporters about the probe, his spokeswoman pushed back against the investigation by his political foes.<\/p>\n
“They have spent all year investigating the president… and have turned up with no evidence, none, that he did anything wrong,” Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.<\/p>\n
“That’s because the president didn’t do anything wrong.”<\/p>\n
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bowed to intense pressure from his party’s hard right and authorized the launch on Tuesday of an impeachment investigation.<\/p>\n
Republican House members accuse Biden, a Democrat, of having “lied” to the American people about his son Hunter’s controversial business dealings abroad.<\/p>\n
But Jean-Pierre said Republicans did not even have enough support for a vote in the House to approve an impeachment probe.<\/p>\n
“Even House Republicans have said the evidence does not exist,” she said. “This is a political stunt.”<\/p>\n
The probe comes as Biden faces low poll ratings ahead of a likely rematch with former president Donald Trump in next year’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Biden ignored impeachment questions from reporters at the White House while leading a meeting of his “Cancer Cabinet” which aims to eradicate the disease, part of a recent effort by the administration to put the focus back on his domestic agenda.<\/p>\n
– ‘Good things’ –<\/p>\n
Cancer is personal for Biden, whose eldest son Beau died from brain cancer aged 46 in 2015. Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed in February while doctors removed two from First Lady Jill Biden a month before.<\/p>\n
Biden has stood resolutely by his sole surviving son, Hunter, 53.<\/p>\n
The younger Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China while his father was vice president under Barack Obama have been a constant target of Republicans.<\/p>\n
Hunter Biden, a recovering drug addict, is currently under investigation by a Justice Department special counsel for possible tax evasion and is expected to be charged by the end of this month on a firearms violation.<\/p>\n
However, he has not been charged with crimes related to his foreign business dealings, and no credible evidence has emerged so far that the president was involved in anything illegal.<\/p>\n
The probe however threatens to distract the White House and give Republicans fresh material for attacks ahead of the November 2024 election.<\/p>\n
Biden holds a slim one-percent lead over Trump — 47 percent to 46 — in a hypothetical match-up, according to a new national poll by Quinnipiac University.<\/p>\n
Half of voters thought Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s business dealings with China and Ukraine, while 35 percent thought the president did something illegal, the poll found.<\/p>\n
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