Will Joe Biden be impeached? Normally, given what investigators have already uncovered, that would be a case of ‘when’, rather than ‘if’. If, as polls suggest, a “Red Wave” in the midterms sees Republicans in control of Congress, it would be almost a certainty. At least, in normal times.
But these are not normal times.
First, the case for impeachment.
Conservative radio host Dan Bongino strongly urged congressional Republicans – should they win back Congress in the midterms – to seek impeachment proceedings against President Biden, given the latest report on his alleged knowledge or connections to first son Hunter‘s foreign dealings.
Citing emails from Hunter’s laptop recently obtained by the Daily Mail, Bongino questioned a reported $5.2 million discrepancy in the president’s financial records.
As Bongino asked his producer, “Did you ever have $5.2 million in unexplained income?” Such an incredible discrepancy would be remarkable enough at the best of times, but when it’s someone who’s spent over half a century doing nothing but politics, it’s damning stuff.
On The Dan Bongino Show, Bongino claimed the elder Biden will “find himself in a significant amount of trouble” if Republicans retake Congress in November.
“The evidence is piling up and he… could be looking at a possible impeachment when the Republicans take over in 2022; which I highly recommend, by the way,” Bongino said. “This is a genuine bombshell – ‘Joe’s missing millions'” […]
The host said the Daily Mail cited a greater $7 million figure that was reportedly the discrepancy between his income tax returns and government transparency reports – adding part of such difference could be traced to the income of First Lady Jill Biden, who works at Northern Virginia Community College – ultimately leading to the $5.2 million amount laid out in the report.
Even the fact that a politician’s wife rakes in nearly $2 million working at Community College ought to be raising eyebrows.
Bongino read further from the report, saying that Joe Biden allegedly “paid Hunter’s legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal,” and went on to describe allegations the president is the pseudonym “Big Guy” in other correspondence […]
Bongino went on to note reportage of the purported deals involving “10 per cent for the Big Guy”, and said the collective allegations should cause pause.
“At this point, I think the answer to any sane human being is fairly obvious: How is it we have a president of the United States still in office right now who by any reasonable measure appears to have taken money from nuclear-powered enemies of the United States in an influence peddling scheme?”
Bongino said if similar allegations had been lodged against Donald Trump [he] would have already been convicted of a “25-to-life” crime.
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And that’s the problem: these are not, as I said, normal times.
That’s the case against impeachment.
What was once the nuclear option of presidential politics, impeachment, has been trivialised by the Democrats, almost beyond redemption. Leaving aside the prurience of the Starr Report, the simple fact remains that President Clinton deliberately and flagrantly lied under oath (by his own admission). On the other hand, the first impeachment trial of President Trump was founded entirely on what we knew even then, and now know without doubt, was an utter falsehood: “Russian collusion”. The second trial was, and is, even flimsier.
In other words, the Democrats turned impeachment, once the most serious last resort of Congress, into a cheap political tool. That much was obvious by leftist calls for an impeachment even before Trump had even taken office.
So, any Republican impeachment of Biden is inevitably going to be seen in that light. It will be framed by the media (and not entirely wrongly) as a mere act of revenge. Still, even though it would undoubtedly be partisan-political, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have more merit than any impeachment since Nixon.
But, to reiterate, that’s not how the left will frame it. And with the further perception of impeachment as little more, any more, than an extra-electoral weapon of politics, it becomes more likely that impeachment will just become routine political theatre, no matter who’s in office and no matter how obvious their high crimes and misdemeanors.
And so it may well be that, as Bongino concluded, “Because it’s Joe Biden, he’s going to skate.”
