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Rep. Jim Jordan to Newsmax: Official Inquiry Vote Gives GOP Leverage


By Charlie McCarthy    |   Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:04 AM EST

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A formal vote by the full House to authorize an impeachment inquiry will make “for a stronger case” against President Joe Biden for peddling influence through his family’s foreign business dealings, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Thursday. Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee, which is helping the Oversight and Accountability Committee probe the Bidens’ business dealings.

It was reported Wednesday that House Republicans are considering holding a formal vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry as the party looks to legitimize its investigation into wrongdoing.

“We would like to go to a formal vote for an impeachment inquiry. You don’t have to do that. We’re in an impeachment inquiry,” Jordan told “Wake Up America” co-host Rob Finnerty. “

“The speaker of the House said that there’s no requirement, but it’s a stronger case if you have to go to court to fight these things.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson has expressed some caution about the impeachment push, warning against a rush to judgment. But he says the evidence already uncovered by Republican chairmen is “alarming.”

Jordan told Finnerty that work remained before the House could consider an impeachment vote.

“We learned so much when we actually had Devon Archer, one of his [Hunter Biden’s] business partners, under oath in a deposition earlier this year … there’s a handful of key people that I think we do need to talk to, and then we make a decision based on all the facts, and what we may learn from those individuals, and how that squares with other testimony we’ve received and the documents.”

Jordan stressed that getting to a vote on impeachment “depends on the facts” and must be done properly.

“I do think this impeachment inquiry vote that we want to take in the House, and I think we’re gonna have the votes for it,” he said, “I think will be helpful when we inevitably have to go to court to get documents and to get these depositions done in the sequence that they need to be done,” the chair said.

Before his appearance concluded, Jordan was asked whether embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., should be expelled from the House. The chamber is expected to vote Friday on whether to expel Santos, who faces criminal corruption charges and new accusations that he misspent campaign money.

“I’m against it,” Jordan said. “I think that’s always a decision between the person in office and the voters back in his or her district. That’s how our system works, and we have due process. I’m against it.”

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Rep. Donalds to Newsmax: Biden Ties to Russian Oligarch Persist


By Nick Koutsobinas    |   Monday, 11 September 2023 08:54 PM EDT

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President Joe Biden may still be receiving benefits from oligarchs, and if House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to tie spending bills to an impeachment inquiry to investigate this, it will be met with “disaster,” Oversight Committee member Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told Newsmax.

On Monday, when asked by “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” if there was enough evidence to start the impeachment inquiry into Biden, Donalds responded, “Yeah, 100%.” Making the case for an impeachment inquiry, the congressman adds that the Oversight Committee has in its possession records of concealed accounts that “all started when Joe Biden was vice president.”

“They knowingly set up these accounts to conceal money from the American people,” Donalds continued. “The fact that Joe Biden allowed his son [Hunter] to do that already is public corruption first and foremost; that’s No. 1.”

“No. 2: There are concerns that there are still actually benefits associated from this corruption. The widow of the Moscow mayor, Elena Baturina, she’s an oligarch over in Russia. So when the Russian sanctions came down from President Biden, she mysteriously was left off the list. I wonder why?”

Amid the evidence and despite the eagerness of some members of the House GOP to begin the impeachment inquiry process, Donalds states that if McCarthy seeks to dangle impeachment inquiry as a means to push through fiscal legislation, his efforts will end in “disaster.”

“Let me put it this way: if this is gonna be his game plan, it is not gonna be met well. That would actually a disaster,” Donalds said. “There’s no such thing as dangling an impeachment vote so you can get away with spending more money.”

As part of the deal to end his 15-round election marathon for speakership in January, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold for a motion to remove him as Speaker of the House from five members to one. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., last week threatened to invoke the motion if McCarthy did not move forward with an impeachment inquiry.

“When we get back to Washington in the coming weeks, we have got to seize the initiative,” Gaetz said. “That means forcing votes on impeachment. And if Kevin McCarthy stands in our way, he may not have the job long. So let’s hope that he works with us, not against us, but we’ve got contingency plans in the event that he’s not as productive.”

The House will return Tuesday.

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