Republicans Are Catching Impeachment Fever

Posted by Alex August 19, 2023
Republicans Are Catching Impeachment Fever
Republicans Are Catching Impeachment Fever

They had come to hear Donald Trump, who had wrapped up his brief visit to the Iowa State Fair with a mini-rally at the Steer n’ Stein. The Republican crowd, on the other hand, applauded just as loudly for Rep. Greg Steube, a third-termer from southwest Florida who’d arrived with great news.

“Yesterday, I filed impeachment articles against Joe Biden,” said Steube, standing next to Trump in matching MAGA hats. “How many of you think we should impeach Joe Biden?”

Encouraged by their base and incensed by the criminal investigations investigating the 45th president, the House GOP’s right fringe is attempting to generate support for the impeachment of Biden. They’ve been questioned about it at town halls, mentioned in conservative media outlets, and urged to act immediately by various movement leaders.

Joe Biden is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanours, warranting the opening of an impeachment inquiry, read an open letter from the Conservative Action Project, released Wednesday; David Bossie, chair of the RNC’s debate committee, was among the activists who signed.

There has never been a more corrupt occupant of the White House than the sitting President of the United States. Impeachment supporters lack the 218 votes required to back up the threat and the entire buy-in of party leaders. Instead, shortly before the start of the summer recess.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his conference that an “impeachment inquiry” — the formal investigative process that typically precedes an impeachment vote — would be held if more evidence justified it, as the House Oversight Committee investigated whether money paid to the president’s son and brother before he was president made it to him.

As members returned home, the discourse came to a halt. However, talk of impeachment increased, fueled by memoranda from the Oversight Committee and outrage over what was happening to Trump. Rep. Pat Fallon told voters at a town hall meeting in his north Texas district on Wednesday that he backed an impeachment investigation and that “we should have done that already.”

Republicans Are Catching Impeachment Fever
Republicans Are Catching Impeachment Fever

Fallon’s first question was about impeachment; on a tape of the event, one participant can be heard shouting, “What’s McCarthy waiting for?” Fallon guided the audience through an FBI informant’s accusation that Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky admitted bribing two members of the Biden family, implying that more revelations could result in the president being removed from office.

If Zlochevsky comes forward with either of those things — recordings or the route to how he got the money — we’ve got impeachment, conviction, removal, and god forbid, not that I’m rooting for this. Still, we’re going to say three words: President Kamala Harris. “I’m not rooting for that, but we have a constitutional duty to investigate.

On the same day, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds told San Diego’s KUSI-TV that an impeachment investigation was an unavoidable post-recess outcome. We believe we will go through an investigative process in the Judiciary Committee through an impeachment inquiry Donalds, who endorsed Trump in April — days after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted him.

There’s going to be several hearings on that. And then, if the evidence speaks for itself, impeachment articles will be brought to the floor. That choice is up to the Republican leadership in the House (in a conference call this week, McCarthy said he expected “some severe family discussions on our next steps forward when we return in September.”) But, while campaigning for Trump at the fair, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said it was time to ramp up the Biden investigation.

 Schmitt said-

“I think a lot there warrants it — whether you call it an impeachment inquiry or further investigation, whatever you want to call it. I think this testimony needs to be out in the open and public. And the American people deserve to know whether or not the President’s a crook.”

David’s view

The road from impeachment as a “kook” preoccupation to reality is getting shorter. Republicans blamed Democrats for this, despite their assertion that removing a president meant disobeying the will of the citizens who elected him.

“I blame this impeachment craze on the Democrats,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told Raw Story late last month. “Many voters feel like they impeached Trump twice, and we should impeach Biden. And again, that’s irresponsibility on the Democrats’ side.”

It helps that both parties learnt throughout the Trump administration that impeachment does not result in the removal of a president. Democrats felt Trump was so singularly dangerous that he ought to be disqualified from the presidency in 2019 and 2021.

However, progressive activists who spent millions of Tom Steyer’s funds on a “Need to Impeach” campaign got a vote, then a trial, with a single Republican defection and a re-energized Trump bragging about his vindication before Covid. Even after January 6, Democrats could only sway a handful of Republican Senators.

Impeachment has become just another instrument for attempting to control the news cycle. Except for Fallon, pro-impeachment Republicans appear to believe Biden is a crooked joke rather than an imminent threat to the Republic, and this is the best approach to educate those who are unaware. Oversight memos and subpoenas, such as one issued this week asking for any interactions in which the president used Robert L. Peters as a pseudonym, have gotten lost amid the Trump drama.

“The purpose of that impeachment, from my standpoint, is not to force a vote that loses,” Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said on a Wednesday Twitter Space organized by Tea Party Patriots. (The group’s CEO, Jenny Beth Martin also signed the movement letter endorsing impeachment.) “It’s to put on a trial in the Senate… it will not result in a conviction, but the American people can still render the true verdict.”

The View From Democrats

Republicans were pressing ahead based on debunked conspiracy theories, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, all to serve a twice-impeached and disgraced enemy of the Constitution now facing 91 serious criminal charges.

The constitutional predicate for impeachment is treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours, Raskin said in a statement to Semafor. House Republicans have admitted that they have no evidence of President Biden’s wrongdoing, let alone an impeachable offence. The goal of this massive waste of taxpayer money and Congressional time would be to create a false equivalence between Biden and Donald Trump. Visit The Current Online for a greater quantity of news and articles pertaining to celebrities. 

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