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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) complained to an MSNBC host that House Republicans have “no basis” for which to proceed with a former impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
Pelosi referred to then-President Donald Trump as “the president” because he refused to carry out the will of Congress and send the aid to Ukraine that he was required to send but threatened to withhold unless President Zelensky did certain favors for him.
“But he said to me, ‘What’s the problem with the call? It was the perfect call.’ Yes, it was perfectly impeachable,” she went on. “And so they have no basis.
“And so their excuse for having no basis is that they have no basis, and yet they are saying to these people that nearly 20 of them, maybe 18 of them, are in districts that President Biden won. So it’s going to be a hard sell for them to go home and say why they went down this careless path,” she said of the GOP majority.
The G.O.A.T. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is always the voice of reason. MAGA Republicans have no basis for this sham impeachment inquiry, all they do is put politics over people and party over country. VOTE all of these fools out! #wtpBlue #DemVoice1 #DemsAct pic.twitter.com/UHs4nB7yY7
— Brian Cardone 🏴☠️🇺🇦 (@cardon_brian) December 13, 2023
Republicans, of course, disagree and have repeatedly said they have found a mountain of evidence supporting a formal impeachment inquiry, which the House plans to vote on by Thursday, according to reports.
In October, for instance, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said they had found evidence of a “direct payment” to Joe Biden that reeks of “classic money laundering.”
Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) posted a redacted copy of a $200,000 check from the president’s brother, James, to Joe that was written on the very same day that James obtained a loan in the same amount from a financially troubled hospital chain.
Comer explained in a video posted to social media the importance and significance of the “direct payment” to then-former Vice President Biden, who was still head of a family with a famous and well-connected political name that could “open doors” for those seeking to influence federal government policy.
“In 2018, James Biden received $600,000 in loans from Americore—a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections,” the Oversight boss said in a statement on the committee’s website.
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 20, 2023
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in July, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) predicted that Joe Biden would go down as “one of the most corrupt stories in U.S. history when we get to the bottom of it.”
“I’ve been to the Treasury. I’ve read dozens of suspicious activity reports,” she told Hannity. “I can tell you the amount of money that we are talking about is staggering. I believe the number will be higher than $50 million at the end of the day.
“What we have seen is evidence of bribery, corruption, possible racketeering, money laundering. What we have to do next, whether there is an impeachment inquiry or more investigation or a special counsel, in the meantime the House Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, Ways and Means, we have to get as many whistleblowers as possible,” she said.
Mace noted further that the evidence “is corroborated and text messages, emails, eyewitness testimony, whistleblowers from the IRS, et cetera. The amount of evidence is starting to become overwhelming.”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the leading Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told Just the News last week that “banks filed at least six reports concerning Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings that flagged President Joe Biden’s home address in Delaware and raised concerns about possible criminal activity involving money laundering or human trafficking,” the outlet reported.
He also said “that the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) chronicled about $12 million in transactions over several years, some of which passed through Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home where he had allowed his son to stay,” the outlet noted further.
