Republican-Led House Impeachment Investigation Targets President Biden’s Brother

US President Joe Biden and his brother James Biden
US President Joe Biden and his brother James Biden

United States – US President Joe Biden’s brother James Biden will be grilled in private by the Republican-led House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation that has been looking to no avail into ways his party has abused the office the president holds for profit.

Jim Biden was the first member of the presidential family to give testimony in the case. Republican House members are investigating Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, next week.

Hunter Biden Up Next

Visual Representation – Hunter Biden. Credit | Getty images

House Republicans have gone full throttle with the election-year probe, and one on Biden’s border chief parallel, even after the prosecutors indicted a former FBI informant – whose statements were the ones that supported the probe – for lying to the investigators.

House Republicans claim that the president and his family, including Hunter, benefited from the improper policies made by Biden during the period of his service as a vice president in the Obama administration from 2009-2017.

The White House has denied any wrongdoing and characterized the investigation as a political attack on them. Dozens of witnesses interviewed by lawmakers reported that Biden was not engaged in the business activities of his family, as reported by Reuters.

James Biden, 74 years old, has business connections with his nephew, the artist Hunter Biden, who was an investment advisor and a lawyer.

Former president Donald Trump, the leader in the sequence of Republican presidential nominations designated to contend with Biden in November, cheers the investigation. Trump was impeached twice by the House. However, he was absolved all the time by the Senate.

Charges Against Former FBI Informant

Federal prosecutors on Thursday also charged the former FBI informant for lying about Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that Hunter Biden was a board member of when he claimed that he paid the Biden family to be corrupt.

Judge, the informant is allegedly linked to the Russian intelligence services, which “unprobably” was mentioned in a filing submitted on Monday.

Congressional Republicans have insisted, time after time, on the use of the supposed informant’s claims in support of the accusations they make, as reported by Reuters.

James Comer, House chairman of the Oversight Committee, downplayed the politics behind the informant’s claims and reaffirmed his committee’s pursuit of the inquiry despite Jamie Raskin, the panel’s top Democrat, struggling to make this stop.

“We will continue to follow the facts to propose legislation to reform federal ethics laws and to determine whether articles of impeachment are warranted,” Comer said in a statement.

Hardline Republicans have long cried for the impeachment of Biden and several of his cabinet members right after he took office.

Hardline Republicans Push for Impeachment

House Republicans voted to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads the DHS, for the inability to stop the record crossings at the border with Mexico. The ballot was very close after three Republicans stood with Democrats with a reason that they did not see proof of “high crimes and misdemeanors as described in the United States Constitution, as reported by Reuters.

The Democratic majority Senate will do the swearing-in of the jurors next week and try the Mayorkas case, and it may well, if not, vote him innocent.

Legislative Stalemate and Implications

It all boils down to the fact that Congress is split, and this has stalled all other legislation.

A bipartisan foreign aid bill passed in the Senate is caught in a standstill in the House because of disagreements on providing more funding to Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion. In contrast, the government funding bills utilized to avert a partial shutdown on March 1 have not yet been brought forward after all.