(Washington) Joe Biden’s son and brother were summoned on Wednesday by a US Congressional committee in the hands of the Republican opposition, leading an impeachment investigation against the president.
Conservatives, in the majority in the House of Representatives since January, accuse the Democratic leader of having lied to the American people about the controversial affairs of his youngest son Hunter abroad. Which the president categorically denies.
Elected officials criticize Hunter Biden in particular for having carried out questionable businesses in Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s vice-president (2009-2017), capitalizing on his father’s name and networks.
“The House Inquiry Committee followed the financial trail and accumulated a series of evidence that demonstrates how Joe Biden was aware of, involved in, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” said its leader, James Comer, in a press release.
The influential Republican elected official summoned the president’s son and brother, James Biden, before Congress in early December “to question them about this evidence.”
This investigation is hotly contested by Democrats.
“It is an investigation that has dragged on for a year and which has not revealed the slightest wrongdoing on the part of the president, quite simply because there is none,” said the spokesperson for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre.
The investigation has almost no chance of success, but could turn into a headache for the White House before the 2024 presidential election, for which Joe Biden is a candidate.