Kevin McCarthy endorses Biden impeachment inquiry – live updates | Donald Trump

McCarthy said his decision to direct a House committee to formally open a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was not taken lightly.

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The House speaker said he believed that the president “would want to answer these questions and allegations” and that this “should concern all Americans” regardless of who they voted for.

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The American people deserve to know that the public offices are not for sale and that the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically associated family.

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I would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. We are committed to getting the answers for the American public – nothing more, nothing less. We will go wherever the evidence takes us.

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"These allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption."

— Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) endorses a House GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Biden. pic.twitter.com/4VzUpq2UWQ

— The Recount (@therecount) September 12, 2023

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy said Republican-led investigations into Joe Biden “paint a picture of a culture of corruption”.

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He said:

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Through our investigations we have found that President Biden did lie to American people about his own knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealers. Eye witnesses have testified that the president joined on multiple phones and had multiple interactions, dinners that resulted in millions of dollars into his son and his son’s business partners.

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McCarthy claimed bank records showed nearly $20m in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates “through various shell companies”. He went on:

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Despite the serious allegation, it appears that the president’s family has been offered special treatment by Biden’s own administration treatment that otherwise would not have received.

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These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives.

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He announced that he is directing the House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into the president, describing it as a “logical next step” that will give the committees “the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the American public”.

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy has called for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

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Speaking to reporters, he said:

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I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

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More to follow.

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to tell Republicans that the House has enough evidence to justify impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden, according to multiple reports.

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McCarthy plans to tell his conference the impeachment inquiry is the “the logical next step” in order to obtain bank records and other documents from the president and his son, Hunter Biden, Punchbowl News reported.

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In recent weeks, McCarthy has privately told Republicans he plans to pursue an impeachment inquiry into Biden and hopes to start the process by the end of September, sources told CNN.

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As Donald Trump faces four separate criminal cases, House Republicans have floated the impeachment of Biden as they investigate his son Hunter’s business dealings. Republicans have been unable to substantiate wrongdoing by either Biden.

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McCarthy suggested last month the House would pursue impeachment if it did not obtain access to certain documents, even though Republicans had never asked for some of the documents at issue, according to the Hill.

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McCarthy is expected to give a press conference at 11am ET. We will be following it live here.

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The House returns from its summer recess today as the speaker, Kevin McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges – avoiding a costly government shutdown, and addressing growing calls on the right to launch an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

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With just 12 legislative days left before the end of the fiscal year, the Republican-controlled House must quickly pass some kind of spending package to keep the federal government open after 30 September.

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If it does not, the government will shut down for the first time in nearly five years, furloughing federal employees and stalling many crucial programs.

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McCarthy has indicated his preference to pass a continuing resolution, but members of the hard-right House freedom caucus insist they will not back a continuing resolution unless the speaker agrees to several significant policy concessions, such as increased border security and an impeachment inquiry into Biden over the business dealings of the president’s son, Hunter Biden.

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Given House Republicans’ narrow majority and a new rule allowing any single member of the chamber to force a vote on removing the speaker, McCarthy’s handling of this fraught situation could determine whether he loses his gavel after just eight months in power.

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Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican congressman, said in Sunday interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki:

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There’s a perfect storm brewing in the House in the near future, in September.

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He added:

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On the one hand, we’ve got to pass a [short-term funding bill]. And we also have the impeachment issue. And we also have members of the House, led by my good friend, Chip Roy, who are concerned about policy issues. So you take those three things put together, and Kevin McCarthy, the speaker, has made promises on each of those issues to different groups. And now it is all coming due at the same time.

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Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate, confirmed he has had “conversations” with the centrist group No Labels about its third-party presidential bid.

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Yang, in a Politico interview published yesterday evening, said:

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I’ve had conversations with various folks who are associated with No Labels.

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He avoided directly answering if the group had specifically approached him about running as a possible presidential candidate, but said he and the group “have a lot of friends and people in common”.

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Yang, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, said he is an “anyone-but-Trump guy”, adding:

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I would not run for president, if I thought that my running would be counterproductive, or if it would increase the chances of someone like Donald Trump becoming president again.

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Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference prosecution against him to remove herself from the case.

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Lawyers for the former president argued that previous public comments by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan about the former president’s culpability in the January 6 Capitol attack were disqualifying.

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The recusal motion, filed to and against Chutkan, faces major legal hurdles: to succeed, Trump must show a “reasonable person” would conclude from just her remarks – but not any of her actual rulings – that she was unable to preside impartially.

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Trump has long complained that the judge assigned to the case was biased against him because of her previous comments about Trump in other January 6 riot defendant cases and his legal team weighed filing the motion for weeks, two people familiar with deliberations told the Guardian.

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The nine-page motion identified two episodes where Chutkan remarked on her opinion about Trump’s responsibility in instigating the Capitol attack, which Trump’s lawyers argued gave rise to the appearance of potential bias or prejudice against the former president.

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The first instance came in October 2022 when she said, referring to January 6:

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And the people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man … It’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.

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Trump’s lawyers argued that those remarks, which came during sentencing of a rioter who stormed the Capitol, suggested Chutkan believed Trump should have been prosecuted and jailed in a pre-judgement of guilt that alone was disqualifying.

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The second instance was when the judge told another January 6 rioter in December 2021:

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The people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged.

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She added, “I have my opinions,” but that was out of her control.

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Trump’s lawyers argued that those remarks suggested Chutkan agreed with that rioter’s defense attorney, who had said Trump had falsely convinced his supporters that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that they needed to take steps to stop the peaceful transition of power.

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Here’s a clip of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin discussing the criminal cases against Donald Trump while at a forum in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok.

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Putin said the prosecution of the former US president was good from Russia’s point of view. He said:

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As for the prosecution of Trump, for us what is happening in today’s conditions, in my opinion, is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy.

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He continued:

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In this sense, if they are trying to fight us in some way, it’s good, because it shows who is fighting us. It shows, as they said back in Soviet times, ‘the bestial face of American imperialism, the bestial grin’.

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Putin speaks out about the cases against Donald Trump:

“This shows the whole rottenness of the American political system, which cannot claim to teach others about democracy. What’s happening with Trump is a persecution of a political rival with political motives.” pic.twitter.com/oouu6rQwyQ

— Matthew Luxmoore (@mjluxmoore) September 12, 2023

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Russian president Vladimir Putin waded into the debate over the criminal charges facing Donald Trump, saying that the cases against the former US president amount to political “persecution” that exposes the fundamental “rottenness” of the American political system.

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Putin, speaking at an Eastern Economic Forum gathering in Russia’s Pacific coast city of Vladivostok on Tuesday, said the prosecution of Trump was good for Russia “because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy”.

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The Russian leader added:

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Everything that is happening with Trump is the persecution of a political rival for political reasons. That’s what it is. And this is being done in front of the public of the United States and the whole world.

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Trump currently faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases in Georgia, Florida, New York and Washington DC. Opinion polls indicate that he holds a commanding lead over his rivals to become the Republican party’s candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

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Both during and after his four-year term in the White House, Trump repeatedly touted having a friendly relationship with Putin. Trump has also claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a matter of days if re-elected president.

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Here’s what else we’re watching today:

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• 10am Eastern time. The Senate will meet and hold a confirmation for Tanya Bradsher’s nomination as deputy veterans affairs secretary.

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• 12pm. The House will meet to take up various bills, including resolutions calling for the release of Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich in Russia.

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• 3pm. The House rules committee meets to prepare the annual defense spending bill for the floor.

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• 3pm. The House freedom caucus will hold a news conference on government funding.

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Key events

Sam Levine

Impeachment would require a majority vote in the House – where Republicans have a slim advantage – to formally charge Joe Biden, then a two-thirds vote in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, to convict him. It is therefore extremely unlikely to succeed.

Far-right Republicans in the House have agitated for impeaching the president but those who could face tough re-election battles next fall have been more skeptical.

“So the question to me right now is: do the investigations … are they producing enough facts and evidence that warrant taking it to the next step?” Mike Lawler, a New York Republican in a highly competitive district, told NBC News in August.

I don’t think it’s there at the moment, but these committees are doing their job.

In the Senate, some more moderate Republicans have also expressed skepticism about impeachment. Mitt Romney of Utah told HuffPost last week:

I haven’t seen any evidence at this stage to suggest he’s met the constitutional test for impeachment.

Even on the right of the Republican Senate caucus, enthusiasm for impeachment is scarce. Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, a leading Trump ally, told reporters last week he was “not for going through another damn trial to be honest with you. [We] did that here with Trump.”

David Smith

The report by the Congressional Integrity Project offers an anatomy of a fake scandal, detailing a series of exaggerated assertions that have shriveled under scrutiny.

They include James Comer, the chairman of the House of Representatives’ oversight committee, saying at his first press conference that he had evidence of “federal crimes committed”, relentlessly invoking “deep state” conspiracy theories and claiming that his whistleblowers “fear for their lives”.

The report states:

After months of political stunts, dozens of hearings, transcribed interviews, and memos, and despite hours on Fox peddling conspiracy theories, Comer and his Maga crew have failed to find a single shred of evidence linking President Biden to any of their lurid accusations.

In fact, Republicans have been forced to walk back claim after claim.

For months, the report says, Comer talked to the media about four individuals he claimed were “whistleblowers”, a term increasingly hijacked by the right. It adds:

Problem is – they weren’t whistleblowers and there were only two people.

Comer was eventually factchecked by his own colleague on the House oversight committee. Democrat Jamie Raskin wrote to him:

The two individuals your staff specifically identified as the individuals they understood to have been referenced during your March 6 Fox News interview, are not whistleblowers … Your repeated statements about ‘four people’ suggest that either you have intentionally misrepresented the Committee’s investigative progress to your conservative audience or that key investigative steps have been deliberately withheld from Committee Democrats.