Statement from Congressman Dan Goldman on Sham Republican ‘Impeachment Inquiry’

“For the past 12 months, extremist MAGA Republicans have spent countless hours and taxpayer dollars investigating President Biden and his family in a shameless attempt to exact revenge for their Dear Leader, Donald Trump.

“Speaker Johnson is now asking his members to walk the plank and endorse a sham ‘impeachment inquiry’ that has been discredited at every turn. Chairman Comer has repeatedly changed the theory of his case but still has yet to produce a shred of evidence showing that President Biden did anything wrong, much less committed a high crime or misdemeanor.

“President Biden and his administration have gone above and beyond to cooperate with this baseless fishing expedition. Contrary to Donald Trump, who turned over zero documents during his first impeachment inquiry, the Committee has received more than  37,000 pages of private financial records, 2,000 pages of Treasury Department financial reports, more than 20,000 pages of documents from the National Archives, tax records and confidential investigative documents from the IRS, and the FBI FD-1023 from the Biden administration. In addition, the Committee has taken dozens of hours of testimony from more than 10 witnesses, including all of the DOJ decision-makers on the Hunter Biden probe. Finally, Hunter Biden himself has offered to testify, under oath, in a public hearing.

“Despite this remarkable cooperation, House Republicans now attempt to justify an official impeachment inquiry due to purported ‘stonewalling’ by the Administration, citing unreasonable and improper requests for subordinate DOJ line prosecutors to testify as well as additional documents from the National Archives, 62,000 of which will be produced within days. This is nonsense.

“The fatal flaw of this investigation is not a failure to follow the facts included in the documents, materials and testimony.  It is that those facts do not support their predetermined and baseless allegations.

“Speaker Johnson is incapable of passing legislation to help the American people, so he has now resorted to placating Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene by wasting time with a sham, partisan impeachment inquiry.

“I urge my colleagues to reject this resolution and put an end to this weaponization of the Congress of the United States.”

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