Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK.) has warned House Republicans that President Biden cannot be impeached or removed from office for any actions or crimes committed before he was elected president in 2020.
Mullin’s statement to Newsmax Friday could cast doubt on a House GOP investigation into Biden’s family’s business dealings, particularly Hunter Biden’s work with foreign companies while Biden was vice president during and immediately after the Obama administration.
“So what he did as vice president, what he did in between the two [offices] may not be impeachable,” he said during an interview on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”
“If they send us a case, make sure it’s convictable,” Mullin said. “The bar’s real high; there’s no question about it.”
The Republican-controlled House voted on Wednesday to launch an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden, a formal step Republicans believe will allow them to better enforce subpoenas in court.
The 221-212 vote was along party lines.
“The impeachment power resides solely with the House of Representatives. If a majority of the House now says we’re in an official impeachment inquiry as part of our constitutional duty to do oversight, that carries weight. That’s going to help us get these witnesses in,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
The White House has dismissed the investigation as unfounded and politically motivated.
Even if the House votes to impeach the Biden, a two-thirds vote in the Senate is required to convict him on the charges — a near-impossibility in a chamber where Biden’s fellow Democrats hold a 51-49 majority.
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