cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27268080
House Republican investigators accused President Joe Biden of engaging in “impeachable conduct” as part of a long-awaited report. It’s unlikely to change a reality the party has faced for months: They don’t have the votes to impeach him.
The 291-page report released Monday by the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees comes roughly eight months after Republicans formalized their impeachment inquiry against the president. Their sweeping investigations, largely focused on the business deals of Biden’s family members, have gone on even longer, informally starting around the time they first took the House majority in January 2023.
Republicans on the committees are accusing Biden of two offenses they argue meet the bar for impeachable conduct: abuse of power and obstruction. They’re the same charges that House Democrats cited in the 2019 impeachment against then-President Donald Trump — an inquiry frequently mentioned in the House GOP report.
“The Constitution’s remedy for a President’s flagrant abuse of office is clear: impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal by the Senate,” the committees write in the report, adding they are releasing the report to the House “for its evaluation and consideration of appropriate next steps.”
Reposting my comment here :
Republicans, explain how these are similar? Do you really consider a president using funds from the government to provide aid in exchange for a personal favour equivalent to a president allegedly being on the phone to a bank to get their sons a loan?
Remember - in the first case there were literally phone call recordings. In the second, there is no evidence beyond whats being alleged.
Both are “abuse of office”. You acquitted the first. Do you really feel the second is just as bad or worse than the first? Why?
A
A president of the united states called the leader of another foreign sovereign nation in an attempt to coerce said foreign nation to investigate a conspiracy theory about the president’s political opponent in exchange for 400million dollars in military aid to defend against a third foreign nation. A quid quo pro deal.
Said president instigated an attack on the capitol building in an attempt to overthrow democracy and prevent votes from being counted.
B
The sons of a president of the united states, while on the phone to … a bank? financial institution? some loan provider … put the president on the phone to exchange pleasantries. No alleged quid quo pro - even from the republican report from what I have seen.
Calling it now - not a single republican voter will provide a coherent response.
inb4 this post somehow breaks R2