Republicans make final-ditch effort to get Biden to testify as impeachment probe comes to an end

The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is almost finished. Republicans don’t really want to impeach him, but there’s still pressure to make a decision after working on it for months.

The leader of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, who is a Republican, Representative. James Comer made a final effort at Wednesday’s meeting, saying he will ask Biden to testify. He said the Democratic president was either involved or not very good at his job in his son’s business dealings. It’s very doubtful that Biden would go before the group.

“We want to hear from the president directly,” Comer said at the end of the long eight-hour meeting.

The White House told Republicans to stop and concentrate on important issues that Americans care about.

“Spokesman Ian Sams said this is a disappointing act after the impeachment has ended. ” “Let’s finish for the day, friend. ”

The long investigation by the Republican Party to impeach the president is almost over, but it hasn’t found any solid proof of his wrongdoing. Asking the president to give a statement could be the last thing to do. Comer is thinking about telling the Justice Department that Biden’s family may have broken the law, instead of starting the process to remove Biden from office. It probably won’t change much, but it would show that he is concerned.

The leading Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin from Maryland said that the Republicans have made the investigation into a joke, and that the mistakes in the Biden impeachment inquiry are coming to an end.

Republicans started looking into the president early last year when they gained control of the House. They wanted to make sure Biden met the requirements for impeachment. During his time as president, Democrats in charge of the House accused Donald Trump, a Republican, of doing something wrong and tried to remove him from office twice.

Trump and Biden will likely compete again in the November election. The investigation into Hunter Biden’s business deals and personal problems, especially before Joe Biden became president, is continuing.

The committee says that the Bidens used their family name to get favors from other people, and that Republicans are trying to prove it by pointing to a few phone calls or dinner meetings between Joe Biden, when he was vice president or not working, and his son Hunter and his business friends.

Hunter Biden, who is dealing with gun and tax problems, talked in private last month for a long time but didn’t give enough proof to show that the president should be impeached.

Hunter Biden said that his father has never been a part of his business.

It would be unusual but not unheard of for a president to speak to Congress. Abraham Lincoln talked to a group of people in the government about a speech that was made public, and Gerald Ford talked about his decision to forgive former president Richard M. Nixon, and some other people.

On Air Force One, as Biden traveled from Arizona to Texas, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “Republicans should stop this game and work with the president on important issues that affect the American people. ”

On Wednesday, the people who gave testimony were unusual and some had complicated backgrounds.

Jason Galanis is in a federal prison in Alabama for committing fraud and spoke to lawmakers through video. Tony Bobulinski, who used to work with Hunter Biden, talked about his issues with the family during the first debate between Trump and Biden in 2020.

The Democrats asked Lev Parnas to come and speak in court. They trust him even though he was found guilty. He was an important person in Trump’s first impeachment. He worked with Rudy Giuliani to find negative information about Joe Biden before the 2020 election. Parnas helped prove that the House GOP’s main accusation of bribery against the Bidens is not true.

In a video, Galanis told lawmakers that he thought he could make a lot of money with Hunter Biden and others by using the Biden family name for their business in other countries.

Galanis said that in May 2014, Hunter Biden had a short conversation with possible foreign business partners at a party in a New York restaurant. He put his dad on speakerphone to talk to a Russian billionaire and her husband.

However, Hunter Biden said he did not work with Galanis when he was asked about it. He said he only met Galanis for a short time a long time ago.

In the past, Galanis, who was punished for many fraud plans, admitted that he tried to get forgiven at the end of Trump’s time as president, but it didn’t work.

Bobulinski said he saw Joe Biden twice in 2017 in Los Angeles, with the help of Hunter Biden. They talked about their families for about 45 minutes, but didn’t talk about business.

Hunter Biden said his dad was not part of his business, but Bobulinski thinks Joe Biden was the main focus.

Parnas said he did not see any proof of the Biden family doing anything wrong while working overseas.

Before he was found guilty, Parnas was an important person in the first time Trump was accused of doing something wrong and not giving help to Ukraine.

Parnas said he helped Giuliani spread untrue claims about Biden to conservative media. Trump’s group said that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, got involved in firing a Ukrainian prosecutor to help Hunter Biden’s job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma. Actually, the US and its allies also wanted the prosecutor to be fired because they thought he was corrupt.

Last year, House Republicans started looking into impeaching Biden. They used unproven statements from an FBI informant that were shared by Senate Republicans. These statements suggested that the Bidens might have received $10 million from Burisma. The person who used to give information to the FBI, Alexander Smirnov, was arrested last month and.