As House Republicans continue to move ahead with their impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, new evidence is completely undercutting their narrative of why they think Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
James Bickerton of Newsweek reports that the central element the GOP’s so-called “case” against the president has collapsed, leaving them with no logical explanation for their sham investigation other than to divert attention from the multiple legal problems facing failed former president Donald Trump, who has been indicted on 91 criminal counts in four separate jurisdictions.
Republican efforts to impeach President Joe Biden suffered a blow after fresh evidence emerged showing his bid to remove Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2015 represented U.S. government policy.
Then-Vice President Biden met Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president at the time, in December 2015, after which he claimed he’d threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Kyiv, unless Shokin was removed from his post, which he subsequently was.
Some conservatives have suggested Biden was attempting to protect Ukrainian energy company Burisma, the board of which his son, Hunter Biden, had joined in 2014, by moving against Shokin. However a pre-meeting memo prepared for Biden by the State Department, dated November 25, 2015, made it clear that removing Shokin was the Obama administration’s policy.
Biden was merely following the administration’s policy when it came to Shokin’s ouster, not trying to enrich himself or his son.
Biden himself has been clear exactly what he said regarding Shokin and why he insisted on him being removed as prosecutor in the Burisma case, remarking:
“I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.
“Well, son of a b****. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Shokin, however, maintains that there was a quid pro quo, telling Fox News that he was booted from his office “Well, son of a b****. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
But Shokin’s accusation is seriously undercut by a complete lack of documentation proving that Shokin was actively investigating Burisma at the time he was removed from his post for allegedly being corrupt.
Despite there being no evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden, Republicans continue to move forward with their inquiry, which is starting to look like little more than a political game designed to damage the man who beat Donald Trump like a drum in the 2020 election.
