House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY.) suggested this week that an impeachment vote in House Republicans investigation of President Joe Biden may not be the best path forward and suggested criminal referrals instead.
“Now we want to hold accountability. And, I believe that the best path to accountability is criminal referrals,” Comer told Newsmax anchor Shaun Kraisman when asked about the future of the investigation.
Republicans have accused Biden of benefiting and being influenced by his son, Hunter, foreign business dealings while serving as vice-president. But after months of investigation they are yet to provide any evidence of a wrongdoing that rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor that warrants Biden’s removal from office.
On Friday, Comer told Newsmax that House Republicans launched their impeachment inquiry “to provide the truth to the American people, and then provide real accountability.”
But now, accountability for Biden looks like “providing real criminal referrals to the Department of Justice” Comer says, because the Democratic-controlled Senate will table any impeachment of Biden.
“The impeachment inquiry was meant to give us more tools, to be able to gather more information, to be able to win in court when the Bidens challenged our lawful subpoenas. We’ve done all that. We’ve gotten the information that the Bidens were influence peddling. They never paid a penny of taxes on it,” Comer said.
