House Oversight and Accountability committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is leading the House impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, said his investigation might not result in an impeachment vote after all.
Comer told Spectrum News that the “math keeps getting worse” for Republicans, referring to the party’s shrinking majority in the lower chamber and growing skepticism after the monthslong investigation failed to produce any evidence of Biden’s alleged crimes.
Comer told the outlet that House Republicans are looking to see how the Democratic-controlled Senate handles the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to get their cue about how to proceed.
“I think the conference will get to see what happens with this Mayorkas impeachment in the Senate, and how serious the Senate treats that as to whether or not we impeach Joe Biden over here or we just focus on holding him accountable,” he said.
While he hoped for congressional action in the coming months, Comer said “accountability” might not come until there’s “a new president and a new attorney general,” implying that the Justice Department under Trump could open a criminal investigation of Biden.
“At the end of the day, my goal is to get the truth out there and hold people accountable for wrongdoing,’ he added. “That may encompass impeachment. If it doesn’t, that’s fine with me.”
Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry of Biden last year, accusing the president of benefiting and being influenced by his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
They are yet to provide any evidence to support their claim. Even worse, their star witness whose claim is at the heart of the impeachment proceedings was indicted last week for lying to the FBI about the Bidens Ukraine ties.
