- GOP report alleges Biden committed impeachable offenses
- Biden family reportedly earned $27M through influence
- Impeachment decision pending GOP leadership vote
With only 77 days till the election, House Republicans released a huge new study claiming President Joe Biden, 81, committed ‘impeachable offenses.
The roughly 300-page study aggregated Republican findings from the last two years regarding the Biden family reportedly gaining more than $27 million from the president’s son Hunter and brother James Biden’s questionable business activities through ‘influence peddling.
It also reveals allegations that the Justice Department slowed federal investigations into Hunter for firearms and tax offenses.
‘Overwhelming evidence suggests that President Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetise his office of public trust to enrich his family,’ states the report, which was released hours before Biden is scheduled to address the Democratic National Convention.
Impeachment leaders are presenting their findings to the entire House, and the GOP leadership must decide whether or not to hold an impeachment vote on the House floor.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry about a year ago, in September 2023, delegating authority to the Judiciary, Oversight, and Ways and Means committees. The House agreed to legally authorize it in December, and in the months since, there has been a steady flow of additional information concerning the Biden family business dealings.
Nonetheless, the slim Republican majority is expected to lack the votes to impeach the president. Impeaching Biden may become less of a priority now that he has stepped out of the 2024 presidential race.
The House has already voted to refer Hunter and James Biden to the DOJ for criminal charges. Oversight Chairman James Comer told DailyMail.com that he believes the DOJ will pursue those recommendations if Donald Trump wins the election.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the extensive story.
DailyMail.com pulls down the report’s highlights as House lawmakers consider whether to support impeaching the president:
Joe was paid when James concluded commercial transactions.
The investigation identifies $27 million in funds taken from foreign corporations by Biden family members and their firms, as well as the shell companies they claim were established to avoid inspection.
The Biden family used revenues from these commercial ventures to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden—including thousands of dollars that can be directly traced back to China.
James Biden issued two checks to his brother Joe, one for $200,000 and one for $40,000, both designated ‘loan repayment.’
During his testimony, James stated that he utilized money from a deal with the Chinese energy giant CEFC to repay his brother for the lower sum.
He said there was no formal loan documentation connected to the two checks, and he did not charge interest because the money was between ‘family.’
According to James, Joe had made money from a book deal during his vice presidency, and James and his wife had expenses to pay.
According to bank records obtained by DailyMail.com, wires from Joe to James were sent several weeks before the repayments were completed.
Biden’s connection with family business deals
According to the investigation, Joe ‘used his role as Vice President to gain favorable outcomes for his son’s and his business associates’ foreign business activities.
Devon Archer, a Hunter colleague, told lawmakers that Joe had dinner in person with Hunter and his foreign business associates on at least two occasions, following which they transmitted money to Biden-affiliated entities nearly immediately.
In the spring of 2014, Joe went to supper with Hunter and a few of his business partners at Cafe Milano in Washington, DC. Kazakh businessmen Kenes Rakishev and Karim Massimov attended the event, as did Russian oligarchs Yelena Baturina and Eric Schwerin.
Archer confirmed that Joe stayed long enough to eat dinner with the group.
On February 14, around the evening time, Baturina sent $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton.
Months later, while Hunter was attempting to seal another deal with Baturina, Joe said hello to her on the phone and allegedly added, ‘You be kind to my boy.’
‘Based on the totality of this evidence, it is unthinkable that President Biden did not recognize that he was participating in an endeavor to benefit his family by abusing his position of public trust,’ the report stated.
On April 22, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh businessman who attended the Cafe Milano meal, transferred $142,300 into the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account.
Hunter received the money as a present, and he used it to buy a Porsche.
Hunter, meanwhile, had a $50,000-a-month board seat at Ukrainian energy company Burisma as his father lobbied the government to fire a prosecutor investigating the company.
During another dinner with Burisma executives at the Four Seasons in Dubai, Hunter stated that he would be able to receive ‘assistance from D.C.’ to alleviate some ‘government pressure’ on the company.
Archer stated that Burisma was under pressure and requested Hunter to help alleviate some of this pressure.
He said that it was due to ‘government pressure’ from the ongoing Ukrainian inquiry into the corporation at the time, which was conducted by top prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
In March 2016, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in Ukrainian funding if Shokin was not sacked for corruption, which he eventually was.
The paper also discusses Hunter’s now-famous WhatsApp exchange with Raymond Zhao, an officer with Chinese energy company CEFC.
Zhao and Hunter were negotiating a joint venture for a $300 billion financial services company with intimate ties to the CCP. When the deal didn’t go through, Hunter turned to threats.
Hunter once messaged the Chinese associate, saying, ‘I’m sitting here with my father, and we’d like to understand why the commitment hasn’t been fulfilled.’
Shortly thereafter, $5 million was transferred from CEFC affiliates to entities linked to Hunter and James Biden.
Hunter, however, stated that he sent the message to the incorrect ‘Zhao.’
‘The Zhao that this is sent to is not the Zhao associated with CEFC,’ Hunter alleged. He had no idea or even a slight understanding of what he was talking about.
Phone records from Hunter Biden’s WhatsApp account demonstrate that he only ever talked with one Zhao, Raymond Zhao, and that he continued to transmit CEFC-related communications with the same ‘Zhao’ for months later.
“Biden’s involvement in this plan to enrich his family is impeachable conduct. By monetising the Vice Presidency for his family’s profit, he misused his public trust position, putting his family’s welfare ahead of the welfare of the United States, according to the report.
He also prioritized foreign interests over the interests of the American people. Indeed, precedent established by House Democrats in 2019 in their impeachment of President Donald J. Trump indicates that “abuse of office,” defined as the exercise of “official power to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest,” is an impeachable offense.
A new court filing this week in Hunter’s federal tax case revealed that the younger Biden was hired by a Romanian oligarch in an ‘attempt to influence U.S. government agencies,’ earning around $1 million for work structured to avoid ‘political ramifications’ for Joe Biden, who was then vice president.
It is the closest prosecutors have gone to linking President Biden to his son’s offshore business dealings.
Gabriel Popoviciu, a real estate magnate, was facing bribery and corruption charges in his native Romania. In late 2015, Popoviciu hired Hunter Biden and his business associates to help him dodge accusations.
Joe Biden allegedly mishandled secret material.
The report also discusses Biden’s alleged misplacement of confidential information and how he shared it with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
Special counsel Robert Hur finally decided not to charge him because he was ‘elderly’ and ‘forgetful.’
‘The Special Counsel’s findings, as well as the Committees’ investigation, revealed how President Biden caused White House employees to conceal his conduct and mislead the American people about his activities,’ it states.
Claims DOJ’s slow walk’ the Hunter probe
Former IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler assert that the DOJ delayed its investigation into the president’s son’s taxes, while Ziegler asserts that Hunter was given preferential treatment.
The study discovered that the DOJ had allowed the statute of limitations to expire on two significant accusations against Hunter Biden, including failing to pay taxes on $1 million in revenue from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma between 2014 and 2015.
According to the whistleblowers, the DOJ informed the Biden transition team about the FBI’s preparations to interrogate Hunter.
Hunter was indicted by the DOJ in December 2023 on nine tax offenses. In June of this year, the DOJ found him guilty of three crimes, including lying on a weapons purchase form.
‘The special treatment of Hunter Biden, which only ended when congressional attention turned to the Department’s inquiry, may be a foundation for impeachment, much as the distortion of an official investigation was a basis for President Nixon’s potential impeachment in 1974.
Congress is obstructed
Republicans accuse the administration of failing to fully cooperate with the probe.
They claim they withheld ‘important fact witnesses’ and ‘disregarded’ subpoenas from the committees.
“The Biden-Harris White House has obfuscated facts and denied the Committees access to witnesses,” the Republicans claim in the report.
“[W]here the President unlawfully intends to obstruct such an inquiry, the House is empowered to conclude that evidence withheld from consideration is detrimental to the President’s position.”
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‘Applying the precedent here, the House may find that the witnesses and information being withheld from the Committees are detrimental to the President.’
The report’s major conclusion
‘The entirety of the fraudulent conduct exposed by the committees is appalling. President Joe Biden engaged in influence peddling and shady dealings. In doing so, he abused his position and, by repeatedly lying about it, robbed the United States to enrich his family. None of these transactions would have transpired without Joe Biden’s formal position in the US government. This pattern of behavior meant that his family, who offered no legitimate services, had a luxury lifestyle.
‘The Constitution provides a clear remedy for a president’s gross abuse of office: impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal by the Senate. Despite Democrats’ recent cheapening of impeachment power, the House’s decision to pursue articles of impeachment should not be taken lightly. As a result, this report seeks to disclose the evidence acquired to date so that all Members of the House can judge the scope of President Biden’s misconduct.
The report will now be circulated to the entire House. Impeachment leaders have delegated the decision to GOP leadership on whether or not to take a vote to impeach Biden before the election.
