2023-09-13 19:42:07
This Wednesday, the White House once once more reacted to the impeachment investigation led once morest Joe Biden by the Republican opposition in Congress.
US President Joe Biden, targeted by an impeachment inquiry led by the Republican opposition in Congresshas “done nothing wrong,” said its spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday.
Republicans in the House of Representatives accuse the Democratic leader for having “lied” to the American people over his involvement in his son’s controversial affairs abroad. “They didn’t find no proof, none, that he did anything wrong. The president did nothing wrong,” his spokesperson retorted during the daily White House press briefing.
Hunter Biden, the fifty-year-old son of the Democratic president, became a favored target of the American right. They accuse him in particular of having done dubious deals in Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s vice-president (2009-2017), capitalizing on his father’s networks and name.
Political maneuver
The opening of impeachment proceedings had been demanded for months by the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party. The American Constitution provides that Congress can impeach the president for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The Democrats respond that these efforts of the right are only screens used to hide the legal troubles that are accumulating for Donald Trumpcharged four times in less than six months.
Never has a president been impeached in American history. Three were impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021. But all were ultimately acquitted.
Richard Nixon preferred to resign in 1974 to avoid certain impeachment by Congress due to the scandal of Watergate.
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