In a lengthy report released on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Republicans used circumstantial evidence to accuse the president of corruption tied to his son’s foreign business dealings.

House Republicans on Monday formally made the case for impeaching President Biden, releasing a lengthy report accusing him of corruption and seeking to allow his family to profit off his office in connection with foreign business deals made by his son Hunter, who has been charged with felony tax crimes.

In the 291-page document, released on the day that Democrats gather in Chicago to begin their party convention, Republicans call Mr. Biden’s conduct “egregious” and say he should be impeached for abuse of power and obstruction. But the report contains no proof that Mr. Biden, when he was vice president, engaged in any corrupt quid pro quo to benefit his son’s business partners, and Republicans admit they have no direct evidence that he ordered any interference into a Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden.

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    Remember when Trump was impeached (the second time) and Republicans argued that there was no point since he was about to leave office?

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      I also remember when Obama was about to leave office and McConnel blocked his SCOTUS nomination because of it, then when Trump was about to leave office with less time left bent over backwards to get his SCOTUS nomination passed.

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    Ok, maybe I am OOTL but didn’t they try this already? And when questioned no one could find faults with his dealings?

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    Oh no, anyway.

    Seriously. These guys have 1 trick. And nobody cares. All that “Biden Crime Family” BS evaporated when Biden didn’t swoop in to save hunter from that conviction.

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      Ya know what vanished faster because nobody cares? Someone trying to kill that convicted felon trump. I still laugh that it took less then 3 days for even the media to not give a rats ass about him almost dying.

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          How could you miss?

          Because republicans don’t actually regularly train with the firearms they own, they leverage them to project their insecurities instead.

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            To them they are teddy bears of plastic and metal toys, not fine mechines of death inflicting it from afar tools demanding respect. I find it so frustrating that the folks least reserving of weapons are the supposed champions of them, I wish to crucify the NRA.

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        We only stopped hearing about it because the failed assassin was a right-leaning white male citizen of the USA, and no Republican seems to be able to make political hay out of that, so they’d rather not talk about it.

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    This is the same shit as before. Moskowitz offered to impeach in March this year, and they wouldn’t do it. They’ve been claiming for years that he’s done all this stuff, and he needs impeached. And then when offered a golden ticket to do so, they wavered.

    There is nothing there. And even if there is, who gives AF, arrest him. I’m not losing sleep over it. They would have done it if they had the evidence before. And now, in August, with 3 months left and 2 months basically of lame duck time, they want to impeach him? It’s a political stunt, nicely timed with the start of the DNC.

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    Haha they had this all queued up for Biden but now it’s Harris and they went for it anyways

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    So they’re saying he got payments from people and had businesses?

    Seems a lot like a certain weird old man running for president.

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    Strictly a coincidence that it was released on Day 1 of the Democratic Convention. I can’t believe it. How crazy is that?

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    This is just another useless baseless tactic to

    1. Disrupt the start of the DNC
    2. Make “impeachment” seem so benign and common that that people won’t care the next time a gopper is impeached for actual legit reasons
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    They’ve been saying they’ll use impeachment as both a political weapon against their enemies and as a defense to their own crimes.

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      Republicans used impeachment as a weapon in the 90s against Clinton, so they are just confirming they will continue.

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        Republicans also stole the election in 2000 - they will continue. Republicans are weird that way.

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        Tbf, what he did was wrong and he lied about it under oath. While it may have been petty, it’s still more than they’ve got on Joe.

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          Explain what was so wrong about sexual relations between two consenting adults. Also, ever have your car followed by a relentless and determined cop?

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          I think it backfired in Clinton’s case. “Impeached over a blowjob”, turned into more of a joke than a conviction. All that sound and fury, and Bill came out looking put upon rather than a villain.

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    The butthurt are gonna butthurt.

    The goopers are just so upset that they backed a criminal and that others noticed this.