Another new survey spells bad news for President Joe Biden less than a year from the 2024 elections as Republicans become fixated on an impeachment inquiry.
According to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, six in 10 respondents believe that the president did indeed participate in his son Hunter’s allegedly nefarious business deals with foreign entities, despite denials by Joe Biden and his administration.
“Overall, Hunter had a 24 percent favorability rating and a 55 percent unfavorable rating, with 37 percent viewing him as ‘very unfavorable,'” the UK’s Daily Mail reported, citing the survey. “In the same poll, former President Donald Trump scored a 30 percent ‘very favorable rating’ and a 34 percent ‘very unfavorable’ rating.”
Trump is, however, the leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate, and by a wide margin.
The Daily Mail adds:
The president claimed he never talked business with his son or his associates – despite Hunter’s abandoned laptop and congressional testimony from his former business partner Devon Archer saying otherwise.
Archer said that Joe Biden was present at two dinner meetings at Washington, D.C.’s Cafe Milano, along with Hunter’s business partners. A note was also found on the laptop from a Burisma executive thanking Hunter for introducing him to his dad at dinner.
Archer also testified that Joe Biden ‘had coffee’ with Jonathan Li, CEO of Chinese-backed BHR partners where Hunter owned a 10 percent stake.
Meanwhile, last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Biden has reached a phase where Republicans are set to take testimony from “key” witnesses under oath.
The Louisiana Republican said in a statement that he had just received an update from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who is leading the inquiry, as well as two other lawmakers who have been tasked to assist with the investigation — Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.), The Daily Wire reported.
“At this stage, our impeachment inquiry has already shown the corrupt conduct of the president’s family and that he and White House officials have repeatedly lied about his knowledge and involvement in his family’s business activities,” Johnson said, per the statement.
“It has also exposed the tens of millions of dollars from foreign adversaries being paid to shell companies controlled by the president’s son, brother, and their business associates,” he noted further, per the outlet. “Now, the appropriate step is to place key witnesses under oath and question them under the penalty of perjury, to fill gaps in the record.”
The Speaker concluded: “I commend the good work of Chairmen Comer, Jordan, and Smith. As we move forward toward an inflection point in this critical investigation, they have my full and unwavering support.”
This week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said that Republicans will decide early next year whether they will begin the process of impeaching Biden.
Jordan said that the GOP’s impeachment investigation still needs some finishing touches, but many of his supporters already think there is enough evidence to impeach.
“I believe we will get the depositions and the interviews done in this calendar year and then make a decision early next year whether the actual evidence warrants going to articles of impeachment and moving to that stage of the investigation,” Jordan said.
Last week, before he did this, Comer went on “Sunday Morning Futures” and said that Joe Biden should be removed from office, but he didn’t say when.
The Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees in the House all worked together on the investigation. It was established in September and has looked into the president’s family business dealings and alleged schemes to buy votes, among other issues.
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