House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.

House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.

Despite drumbeating for more than a year to impeach Joe Biden, House Republicans have quietly begun looking for an off-ramp in the face of an overwhelming lack of evidence against the president—and a rapidly shrinking majority in the chamber.

Republicans have accused Biden and his son Hunter of corruption and influence peddling, but their lengthy investigation has failed to turn up any proof of the president’s wrongdoing. In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of making up the allegations against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort.

As the investigation crumbles, Republicans are starting to sour on it entirely. “I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.”

  • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
    100·
    8 months ago

    Now that their “star witness” has been outed as a paid liar, and that the money is coming from Trumpland? Yeah I’d start getting reaaaly quiet and hope everyone forgets the whole event too.

    An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai.

    Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, alleging that they engaged in a bribery scheme served as a major justification of the House impeachment investigation into the Bidens.

    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
      27·
      8 months ago

      This is the actual plot of Scooby-Doo. Here is my new art project. I’m going to start streaming reruns of the original Scooby-Doo and everytime a villian shows up I’m going to superimpose a GOP memebers picture on the villains head.

      Every fucking time these cartoon plots are so stupid a dog could figure them out on accident.

    • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Nonsense. They just need to find a star witness who is better at lying and scrub the paper trail a little better this time. Anything worth lying and cheating for is worth lying and cheating for again. It’s not like there are any consequences.

      /s obv