Conservatives, in the majority in the House of Representatives since January, accuse the Democratic leader of having used his influence when he was Obama’s vice-president to allow his son to do questionable deals in China and Ukraine.
The American Congress approved Wednesday night, December 13, French time, the formal opening of an impeachment investigation into Joe Biden, motivated by his son’s controversial affairs abroad, and described as an “unfounded political scheme” by President. If the procedure has almost no chance of succeeding, it could nevertheless turn into a headache for the White House before the presidential election in November 2024, for which Joe Biden is a candidate.
Conservatives, in the majority in the House of Representatives since January, accuse the Democratic leader of having used his influence when he was Barack Obama’s vice-president (2009-2017) to allow his son to do questionable business in China and in Ukraine. The American president, the Democrats and his son deny the accusations altogether. “Instead of working to make the lives of Americans better, their priority [aux Républicains] is to attack me with lies,” Biden criticized in a statement.
An investigation already opened in the summer
“My father was never financially involved in my affairs,” had already brushed off Hunter Biden, who had become a prime target of the right, during a rare press conference Wednesday morning. Present before the American Congress, the fifty-year-old, with a past marked by addictions and indicted in two cases by the courts, admitted to having made “mistakes” in his life. The 81-year-old president has always publicly supported his son, often repeating that he is “proud” of him.
An impeachment investigation, long demanded by elected officials close to Donald Trump against whom Joe Biden could face in 2024, had already been opened against the Democratic president in the summer. A first parliamentary hearing was even organized on the subject at the end of September, during which the experts interviewed agreed that there was currently nothing to justify an indictment of President Biden.
Never has a president been impeached in American history. However, three were indicted: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021. But all were ultimately acquitted.
2023-12-14 08:10:11
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