Top Republican Reveals Main Reason Why Biden Could Be Impeached

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) during a hearing in Washington on July 27, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A top House Republican previewed how the GOP may handle possible impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden if his party takes control of Congress after the midterm elections.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said that impeachment offenses may be contained inside Hunter Biden’s laptop before making reference to messages contained on the hard drive pertaining to the younger Biden’s business deals.

If “Joe Biden was receiving payments from Hunter Biden” or if Hunter obtained benefits “from influence peddling or being a foreign agent, however you want to describe it, either way, that’s illegal,” Comer told Newsmax in an interview Tuesday.

In previous years, there have been examples of “people in Republican administrations and Democratic administrations [who] were indicted and convicted for being a foreign agent and not registering, not showing that income,” Comer noted. However, he added that “Hunter Biden did that times 100.”

“Not only was he a private American citizen,” the Republican lawmaker said, “but he was an immediate family member of the sitting vice president of the United States.”

Comer alleged that a former associate of Hunter Biden said that the younger Biden “was keeping Joe Biden up” by “paying for his everyday expenses.”

Hunter “was helping provide that comfortable lifestyle and that big nice house he has in Delaware. He was helping to keep that up. So that’s a problem for Joe Biden,” he said, citing the whistleblower.

A former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, spoke to media outlets in late 2020 after reports of the laptop surfaced, confirming the authenticity of messages from Hunter Biden. Those messages included references to Russian and Chinese business deals, including a venture with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.

At one point, Bobulinski confirmed that “the big guy,” as referenced by Hunter Biden in one email exchange, was Joe Biden. The elder Biden was slated to receive 10 percent of a cut on the CEFC deal, Bobulinski said.

President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart from Holy Spirit Catholic Church after attending Mass on St. Johns Island, S.C., on Aug. 13, 2022. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

In an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson set to air Tuesday night, Bobulinski alleged that President Biden had extensive knowledge of his son’s dealings. During the 2020 campaign, however, Biden said he had little knowledge and was not involved while denying his son engaged in any malfeasance.

During an ABC News interview in 2019, Hunter Biden acknowledged that some of his overseas deals were “poor judgment on my part.” But he stressed that he “did nothing wrong at all.”

“I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. That’s where I made the mistake,” Hunter Biden said.

“So I take full responsibility for that. Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever.”

Impeachment?

With the midterm elections just weeks away, analysts have said that the GOP has a good chance of retaking at least the House. Historically, the party of the president tends to lose seats in midterms, while Democrats have a five-seat advantage over Republicans.

At least eight impeachment articles against Biden have been introduced to Congress since the president took office, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors” over what the lawmakers described as the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the southern border crisis, the moratorium barring eviction of renters who struggled with payment for pandemic reasons, and the foreign business dealings of president’s son, Hunter Biden.

“I have consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe,” Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who has endorsed three of the impeachment resolutions targeting Biden, told The Epoch Times. “Congress has a duty to hold the President accountable for this and any other failures of his Constitutional responsibilities, so a new Republican majority must be prepared to aggressively conduct oversight on day one.”

Since being elected in 2020, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has led four impeachment resolutions against Biden and again called for his impeachment in early September. It came after Biden delivered a speech about “MAGA extremists” on Sept. 1

“Joe Biden just declared all of us enemies of the state. Biden is a danger to us all,” she wrote on Twitter, asserting that “Joe Biden MUST BE IMPEACHED!!”

The Epoch Times has contacted the White House press office for comment.

Eva Fu contributed to this report.