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By Matthew Impelli
Life & Trends Reporter
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House Republicans released their report on efforts to impeach President Joe Biden this week.
On Monday, an almost 300-page report was released by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the Judiciary Committee and the Ways and Means Committee following an investigation into Biden over allegations that he was involved with and benefited from his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.
The White House has repeatedly denied that Joe Biden had anything to do with his son's dealings.
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"The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the Committees is egregious," the House Oversight and Accountability, Judiciary and Ways & Means Committees wrote in their report. "In doing so, he abused his office and, by repeatedly lying about his abuse of office, has defrauded the United States to enrich his family. Not one of these transactions would have occurred, but for Joe Biden's official position in the United States government. This pattern of conduct ensured his family—who provided no legitimate services—lived a lavish lifestyle."
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The report noted that the Constitution's "remedy for a President's flagrant abuse of office is clear: impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal by the Senate."
"Despite the cheapening of the impeachment power by Democrats in recent years, the House's decision to pursue articles of impeachment must not be made lightly. As such, this report endeavors to present the evidence gathered to date so that all Members of the House may assess the extent of President Biden's corruption," the report added.
The full report can be read below.
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Over the past several months, House Republicans have continued their investigation into the Biden family business dealings. The investigation even included aspects of Biden's business dealings from 2009 while he served as vice president under former President Barack Obama.
In a statement to Newsweek, Sharon Yang, White House Spokesperson for Oversight & Investigations said, "After wasting nearly two years and millions of taxpayer dollars, House Republicans have finally given up on their wild goose chase. This failed stunt will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment that their own members distanced themselves from as they only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories."
"The American people deserve more from House Republicans, and perhaps now they will finally join President Biden in focusing on the real issues that American families actually care about," Yang added in her statement.
The report largely focuses on a period of personal turmoil for the Biden family following the 2015 death of Joe Biden's eldest son, Beau, and as Biden, then vice president, opted not to run for president in 2016, stepping away from elected office.
Republicans are attempting to link President Biden to his son Hunter's business dealings through a series of phone calls and dinner visits. During these occasions, Hunter would reportedly sometimes put his father on speakerphone while they exchanged pleasantries in front of business associates.
"From 2014 to the present, as part of a conspiracy to monetize Joe Biden's office of public trust to enrich the Biden family, Biden family members and their associates received over $27 million from foreign individuals or entities," the report said. "The Biden family leveraged Joe Biden's positions of public trust to obtain over $8 million in loans from Democratic benefactors. Millions of dollars in loans have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the Committees. This raises serious questions about whether these funds were provided as gifts disguised as loans."
The report also criticized White House officials, saying that they sought to obstruct the Committee's "impeachment inquiry by withholding key documents and witnesses."
The report said that the White House refused to provide audio recordings from Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated the president's handling of classified documents.
In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, Representative James Comer, the House Oversight Committee Chairman, said, "President Biden's legacy is marked by abuse of public office, corruption, & obstruction. The evidence produced by our impeachment inquiry is the strongest case for impeachment of a sitting president the House of Representatives has ever investigated."
"We have exposed the truth," Comer added.
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