Alert: House Republicans open formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the U.S. House of Representatives will open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden, attributing the move to recent allegations of corruption.

In a statement to journalists Tuesday, McCarthy said Republicans in the House, “have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct. Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption.”

House Republicans have been exploring the possibility the president benefited from or was involved in, Hunter Biden’s international business operations.

The national media, especially conservative leaning press have reported on how Biden’s son escalated his international business relationships—even receiving a reduced stake in a China based private-equity firm along with consulting agreements linked to Romanian real-estate mogul—when then Vice President Biden left the White House.

The White House has repeatedly insisted the president has no connection to Hunter’s personal and business affairs. Democrats have accused Republicans of using the issue as politicking, and an effort to get revenge for their targeting of former President Donald J. Trump.

So far, no evidence has surfaced proving Biden was personally profiting from Hunter’s business arrangements.

McCarthy told reporters that the new impeachment inquiry will be led by Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) of the Oversight Committee in coordination with Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Jason Smith (R., Mo.) the chairman of Ways and Means.

McCarthy’s Tuesday statement comes after comments he made earlier this year amid pressure from hardline conservatives who have been taking aim at the president’s son’s dealings.

House legislators can authorize an impeachment inquiry, an initial move that could lead to charging the president with an actual high crime or misdemeanor.

The House Speaker said that the inquiry could give Congress the ability to use the probe as prosecutors use grand juries in the capacity of an investigative tool.

“If that is a tool in the toolbox we can use to get more evidence for the American people, then I’m going to support it,” said Rep. Nancy Mace on CNN. “The problem is you do the inquiry, how do you avoid doing an actual impeachment. And that puts a lot of seats up at risk, particularly for Republicans who won Biden districts,” she explained.

Republicans were at odds with one another as to whether the probe should constitute a floor vote. At 11:52 a.m. on Tuesday, the Drudge Report made its banner headline, “WITHOUT A VOTE!”

Several House committees have launched investigations, even probing the purported weaponization of the U.S. law enforcement system.