"Likely Biden will be impeached" New speaker Mike Johnson

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It is "very likely" that President Biden has committed impeachable offenses, according to Speaker Mike Johnson, who was elected to the office on Wednesday after three weeks of Republican turmoil.

In September, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden. It focused on whether the president was ever influenced by the business dealings of his son Hunter Biden, potentially setting the stage for an impeachment trial. McCarthy said the president faced "allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption," warranting further investigation.

Biden has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and White House spokesperson Ian Sams said: "House Republicans have been investigating the president for nine months, and they've turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. His own GOP members have said so."

Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity, in his first broadcast interview since becoming speaker, Johnson said that the evidence suggested impeachable offenses had been committed, but he added that he will follow due process.

Johnson said: "The reason we shifted to the impeachment inquiry stage on the president himself was because if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that's very likely impeachable offenses.

"That's listed as a cause for impeachment in the constitution; bribery and other crimes and misdemeanours. Bribery's listed there, and it looks and smells a lot like that. We're going to follow the truth wherever it leads. We're going to engage in due process because, again, we're the rule of law party," he said.

"I know people are getting anxious and they're getting restless and they just want somebody to be impeached, but we don't do that like the other team. We have to base it on the evidence," added Johnson.

Newsweek has approached the White House press office for comment via email.

Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican representative who introduced the motion to vacate that saw McCarthy become the first speaker in U.S. history to be removed from office, had described the impeachment inquiry as a "failure theater."

Speaking to Politico, he said: "I don't believe that the impeachment effort under Kevin McCarthy was intended to convict Joe Biden as much as it was to save Kevin McCarthy."

However, Gaetz added that he had greater confidence about the impeachment process under Johnson. He said that the new speaker will "approach this like a lawyer" rather than "a desperate person trying to cling to power."

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[rusty]

Big deal. Paxton was impeached but his chicken shit minions didn't want the West Texas Republicans to disown them, and there was a Hell of a lot more evidence against Paxton thah there will EVER be with Biden.

People who wanted Paxton out had demonstrable evidence. People who want Biden impeached had emotions. Period, paragraph, end of story.

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There are a lot of things that Biden should be impeached for. How about blowing up the pipeline? Or did it blow it'self up?