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US Congress votes on Biden’s impeachment

The GOP-led House has passed a Republican resolution to formalize an impeachment inquiry against the president.

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to formalize the party’s ongoing impeachment probe into President Joe Biden’s alleged corruption and influence peddling. The resolution passed with a 221-212 vote, strictly along party lines.

Every present Republican voted in favour of the impeachment inquiry, while every Democrat voted against. There was one Democrat absentee.

Biden released a statement regarding the inquiry, saying that House Republicans are wasting their time on a “baseless political stunt” that “is not supported by facts.”

The GOP began investigating Biden’s alleged misdeeds after the party retook control of the house following 2020’s midterm elections, with the House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee leading the probe. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an impeachment inquiry in September, claiming that the committees had uncovered a “culture of corruption” surrounding the Biden family.

Citing witness testimony and files retrieved from a laptop belonging to Biden’s son, Hunter, Republicans allege that the Biden family received around $24 million in payments through shell companies from business figures and politicians in China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine while Biden was vice president. Some 150 of these transactions were flagged as “suspicious” by the US Treasury Department, according to the committees.

Hunter Biden plays a key role in the allegations, with the president’s son accused of striking business deals with multiple foreign clients in exchange for access to his father. Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, told the Oversight Committee in July that Hunter’s position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, was given to him solely to guarantee that the company would have influence over US policy.

President Biden denies any knowledge of or involvement in his son’s business activities, despite emails between Hunter and his clients suggesting that Hunter arranged meetings. Archer also alleged that Joe Biden dined multiple times with Hunter’s clients, and that Hunter received money transfers immediately after at least two of these encounters.

With the inquiry formalized, Republicans say that they will have greater investigative powers, particularly when it comes to compelling witnesses to testify. Earlier on Wednesday, Hunter Biden defied a subpoena to testify before a closed-door hearing of the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, stating that he would only answer questions in a public session.

Such a session would be broadcast live by news networks, and would give Democrats the opportunity to filibuster and deliver speeches in defense of the Bidens. Classified information could also not be discussed in a public hearing.

Prior to the vote, Oversight Committee chair James Comer said that “we expect to depose the president’s son, and then we will be more than happy to have a public hearing.”

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  1. This is only happening due to the illegal and UN-Constitutional and ‘un-wavering’ support for Israel in their holocaustic genocidal quest in murdering and destroying the Palestinian people and their land.
    Those U.S. members of both the House & Senate who have not been compromised / blackmailed / honey-trapped by under-age girls are fully aware of the international ramifications, and the Deep State trying to put Trump (who was no better…) away in prison, or run the ops of an assassination as warned about by Victor Bout and former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik! Otherwise,
    The ‘(s)elected’ ‘representatives’ could have cared less over the last nine years what the Bidens have been doing, beginning with Burisma and then the destruction of the Nordstream gas pipeline. They are only impeaching the diaper-wearing, child-sniffing, ice cream cone-licking geriatric automaton due to the fact that millions of Americans have protested the U.S. support of Israel without question, and are aware that the U.S. is a second-party to a great holocaust, holodomor and genocide that goes against the Laws of War and International Law.
    Further to the amazing neutering of ‘global involvement’ is how the U.N. Security Counsel is structured.
    The U.N., NATO, and the upcoming AUKUS should ALL be scrapped due to the Mossad (‘By Deception Thou Shalt Make War’) influences into those organisations.
    And, unfortunately, the Bald-Headed NZ PM is going along with it all…there just isn’t any ‘news’ coverage, but he is sympathetic to the J3wi$h causes, stating his friendliness to those Zionists in Welly.
    & BTW, he also worked for a Zio-J***** company called Unilever…! His toast is buttered with Kosher approved condiments…!
    While Labour committed a horrendous crime against New Zealanders, the BHO (Bald-Headed One) poses an equal and greater danger in quietly supporting Israel and his Zionist mates here and abroad, and will, if needed, draft our children to go and fight in Israel’s proxy war(s)!
    My children will NOT be going off to do that!
    Hal Turner is reporting that a date has been set via leaked messaging for the invasion of the U.S. in 2024, beginning with war in the north.
    The U.S. is scheduled to be carved-up into five (5) regions post-conflict…and then the WEF will bring it’s agenda into the full power mode.

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