On Monday, the U.S. House Oversight Committee released a final report accusing President Joe Biden of committing “impeachable offenses” related to his family, setting up a potential clash between Republicans and the White House this fall. Calling it the “strongest case for impeachment of a sitting president the House of Representatives has ever investigated,” the committee released its report on X, saying the 81-year-old “knew of, benefitted from, and participated in his family’s influence peddling schemes.”
“Our report details evidence to establish President Biden abused his office and violated his oaths of office as Vice President by engaging in a conspiracy to peddle influence to enrich his family. Then as President, Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris Administration obstructed the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry and the criminal investigation of President Biden’s son,” the account adds.
Fox News examined the report, which covers the period from Biden’s vice presidency through several years after he left the White House. The committee concludes that during this time, Biden “abused his office” and “defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”
The 292-page report, produced with the House Judiciary Committee and House Ways and Means Committee, summarizes the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden, which recently stalled following his announcement that he would not seek a second term. Led by Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY), GOP lawmakers have aimed to portray Biden as the influential patriarch of a family network engaged in business dealings in China, Russia, and other authoritarian regimes, leveraging his vice-presidential influence.
In their investigation, lawmakers discovered that Hunter Biden frequently urged Obama administration officials to meet with his clients and sought their assistance in blocking an investigation by a Ukrainian prosecutor into Burisma Holdings, the energy company where he served on the board. The committees state that all told, the president’s family collected more than $27 million from deals during that timeframe. That figure does not include $8 million in loans the family collected from party benefactors, loans which “have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees.”
But the evidence contained within the report, as well as the committees’ timing in releasing it, drew a great deal of criticism online.
Great. Just in time for this to not matter even a little bit.
— USA Features Media (@UsaFeatures) August 19, 2024
Took y’all long enough.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 19, 2024
Where we’re you 3 years ago before you allowed him to destroy our country. You’re all traitors!
— The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) August 19, 2024
Well done GOP! Well done! Literally weeks before his Reign of Terror and total destruction of America is complete y’all have finally decided you have had enough.
Y’all continue to prove what a bunch of fake, feckless group you really are.
— TeamTexasFirst (@TeamTexasFirst) August 19, 2024
This is the biggest No Shit Sherlock in history!
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 19, 2024
Why now?? These things have been known. Why bother now that he’s a lame duck?? Why did you protect him until now??
— Down South Patriot (@kneis816) August 19, 2024
Now what to do with all the Democrat and Republican RINOS that stood in front of us and told us there was ZERO evidence of Biden being involved with his families business dealings?
They should ALL be removed too!
— Freed Omring??? (@LandOfTheTweets) August 19, 2024
