A 291-page congressional report has concluded that President Joe Biden has “engaged in impeachable conduct.”
The report from the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee details the “overwhelming evidence” that Biden “participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.”
According to the report, the Biden family and their business associates “received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden.”
The Biden family and its associates have received more than $27 million from foreign entities since 2014.
“As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in this conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden,” the report says, adding that “evidence also establishes that the Biden family went to great lengths to conceal this conspiracy.”
“President Biden’s participation in this conspiracy to enrich his family constitutes impeachable conduct,” the report says. “By monetizing the Vice Presidency for his family’s benefit, he abused his office of public trust, placing the welfare of his family ahead of the welfare of the United States.”
Biden also “used his official position to conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen,” the committees allege. “During his tenure as Vice President, Joe Biden removed highly sensitive classified documents from the White House, despite having no authority to do so.”
The report also examines evidence that supports allegations from IRS whistleblowers that the Justice Department deviated from “standard procedures to benefit Hunter Biden.”
“The Justice Department allowed the statute of limitations to run on two serious charges facing Hunter Biden. The Justice Department prevented line attorneys from conducting key interviews and pursuing important lines of inquiry,” the Republicans explain. “The Justice Department tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about nonpublic investigative actions and implemented unnecessary hurdles and approvals for prosecutors to charge Hunter Biden. The special treatment for Hunter Biden, which only ceased at the onset of congressional attention on the Department’s investigation, may be a basis for impeachment, as the distortion of an official investigation was a basis in the prospective impeachment of President Nixon in 1974.”
The committees called their findings “egregious.”
“President Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift. In doing so, he abused his office and, by repeatedly lying about his abuse of office, has defrauded the United States to enrich his family,” they write in the report. “Not one of these transactions would have occurred, but for Joe Biden’s official position in the United States government.”
“Despite the cheapening of the impeachment power by Democrats in recent years, the House’s decision to pursue articles of impeachment must not be made lightly,” the report notes. “As such, this report endeavors to present the evidence gathered to date so that all Members of the House may assess the extent of President Biden’s corruption.”
