Will Joe Biden Be Impeached?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns impeachment of the President of the United States. Article II, Section 4 states “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” 

With the above noted section, the U.S. Constitution gives to Congress the authority to impeach and remove various civil officers from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The power of impeachment given to Congress is an essential check on the Executive and Judicial Branches to stop violations of the law and power abuses. Three Presidents have been impeached in the past – Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump – but none of them were removed from office. 

The two impeachments of Trump have been called into question by evidence that came out in recent months. The first impeachment was for questioning the President of Ukraine about Biden family corruption, and now a Republican-led Congress is amassing bank records, emails, and other items showing that members of the Biden family were selling the Biden name to foreign nationals – corruption. The investigation is continuing, but the evidence indicates that there is a connection to Joe Biden.

According to Tyler O’Neil at The Daily Signal, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan recently issued the 60^th subpoena issued during the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This subpoena went to Lesley Wolf – assistant U.S. attorney for Delaware – demanding that she testify before the committee. The date set for her testimony is December 7 at 10 a.m. in Washington, D.C. O’Neil continued with the following information. 

Jordan explained in a letter to Wolf that the Judiciary Committee considers her testimony essential to its oversight of the “executive branch’s commitment to impartial justice” and to “whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden.” The Justice Department under Biden twice refused to make Wolf available for a voluntary interview, leaving the committee “no choice but to compel your testimony at a deposition.” …

Republicans have accused Wolf of impeding the Delaware U.S. attorney’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged influence peddling. Republicans note that Hunter Biden handsomely benefitted from lucrative business deals in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere while his father, then the vice president to President Barack Obama, served as the administration’s point-man for those countries.

Democrats, meanwhile, have claimed that there is no evidence the president directly benefited from his son’s foreign business deals. President Biden has denied any wrongdoing on his part or on the part of his son.

“Witness testimony and public reporting indicates that as an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, you were directly involved in that office’s investigation of Hunter Biden, which deviated from standard investigative procedures,” Jordan notes in the letter.

O’Neil reported that Jordan’s letter cites whistleblower testimony, “noting that Wolf ‘attended a substantial majority, if not all, of the prosecution team meetings concerning the [Justice] Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden.” His article includes more information from Jordan’s letter.