Republican leader McCarthy commissions an investigation against Biden for alleged business dealings with "adversaries" such as China

The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, supported opening an impeachment investigation against President Joe Biden on Tuesday in an effort to obtain bank records and other documents from the president and his son Hunter Biden, after that the latter has admitted two crimes of tax fraud and has been in the media spotlight for other scandals.

Republicans have in their sights the Biden family's alleged businesses with the country's “adversaries” such as China, taking advantage of their political ties. The various allegations already found in this regard, according to McCarthy, “are credible and depict a culture of corruption.”

The legislator considered in a press conference that it is the next “logical step” in the investigations in this regard undertaken by the conservative group since they regained control of the Lower House after the mid-term elections in November 2022.

The resolutions facing an impeachment trial must be validated by the plenary session of that chamber, where it is not yet clear that McCarthy has the support of moderate Republicans on his bench, before reaching the Senate, under Democratic control, and which is the one that has the power to carry out these types of processes. “I encourage the president and his team to cooperate fully with this investigation in the interest of transparency.”. We are committed to getting answers for Americans, no more, no less. We will go wherever the evidence takes us,” said McCarthy, who said he did not make this decision “lightly.”

The Treasury Department alone, according to its data, “has more than 150 transactions involving the Biden family and other business partners that were flagged as suspicious activity by US banks.”

His son and his business partners

“We have found that the president lied to the American public about his own knowledge of his family's foreign business dealings.”. “There are witnesses who have said that he participated in numerous calls, meetings and dinners that resulted in cars and millions of dollars to his son and his son's business partners,” he noted.

In McCarthy's opinion, the Biden family has received “favorable treatment from the Democratic Administration” that would not have been provided if they were not related to the current president.

The conservative legislator considered that these accusations of “abuse of power, obstruction and corruption” deserve additional investigations, which is why he said he commissioned this impeachment investigation against him to be able to gather “all the facts.”

Leading the requested investigations will be the president of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, in coordination with the representatives of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, and the Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith.

“Americans deserve to know that public office is not for sale, that the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically prominent family,” he concluded.