Kevin McCarthy says Biden family allegations ‘rise to level of impeachment inquiry’

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that allegations stemming from Republican investigations into the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s family members are rising to the level of an impeachment inquiry.

The allegations include that Biden family members received payments from foreign companies and that the Justice Department, IRS whistleblowers say, treated the Biden family differently in an investigation into Hunter Biden, McCarthy noted in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday night.

When Biden was running for office, he told the public he never talked about business. He said his family never received a dollar from China, which we are now proving is not true, McCarthy alleged.

If you’re sitting in our seat today, we wouldn’t know any of this if the Republicans hadn’t won a majority, he continued. We only followed where the information led us. But this rises to the level of the impeachment inquiry, which gives Congress the strongest power to obtain the rest of the necessary knowledge and information.

The White House and Democrats were quick to criticize McCarthy’s comments. Spokesman Ian Sams tweeted that the GOP’s eagerness to prosecute Biden regardless of the truth is seemingly bottomless.

Instead of focusing on the real issues Americans want us to address, like continuing to reduce inflation or creating jobs, that’s what the @HouseGOP wants to prioritize, Sams tweeted.

Jaime Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in a statement on Tuesday dismissed McCarthy’s remarks as a political stunt designed to help former President Donald Trump.

Clearly, Donald Trump is the real Speaker of the House, Harrison said. He has ensured that the House majority is little more than an arm of his 2024 campaign, and Kevin McCarthy is happy to make his offer by promising to erase Trump’s own bipartisan impeachments, and now threatening President Biden with baseless impeachment to distract from their lack of any meaningful agenda and the Trumps possess significant challenges.

This is another political stunt designed to help Trump, which House Republicans have already admitted, he added.

McCarthy’s remarks are the strongest he has made so far on a possible impeachment inquiry.

His comments come after Republicans decided last month to forgo an immediate vote on a Biden impeachment resolution led by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., sending it to the Homeland Security and Justice Committees amid escalating internal GOP tensions.

The move came after McCarthy urged rank-and-file Republicans in a closed meeting to oppose Boebert’s resolution, arguing that such an important issue should go through the committee process, three GOP sources who heard the comments confirmed.

In early May, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said a whistleblower tipped them that the FBI had a document known as FD-1023 that included an unverified allegation from a human source who said Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was involved in a corruption scheme involving a foreign government. Grassley released a redacted version of the FBI briefing last week.

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