Biden Impeachment Hearing Heavy on Politics, Light on Substance
- Republicans say they’ll produce evidence linking Biden to son
- Democrats label the inquiry a ‘Trump-ordered impeachment’
Representatives James Comer, right, and Jamie Raskin during a hearing in Washington, DC, on Sept. 28.
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House Republicans opened their impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden Thursday with accusations that his son’s overseas business activities amounted to influence-peddling while still digging for evidence the president was involved.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, focused on interactions Biden had while vice president with his son Hunter’s clients and foreign payments to him and other relatives. Jamie Raskin, the panel’s top Democrat, labeled the inquiry a “Trump-ordered impeachment.”