House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that the final decision on whether or not to impeach President Joe Biden will be coming “very soon.”
Johnson inherited the Biden impeachment inquiry from his successor, along with the question of whether or not to go through with impeaching the president. Some Republicans have heavily pushed an impeachment, while centrists have expressed concern about it affecting the reelection chances of candidates in swing seats. Johnson has remained ambiguous but hinted that a decision would come soon.
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“I do believe that very soon we are coming to a point of decision on it,” Johnson told a reporter on Thursday when asked if there was enough evidence to impeach Biden.
“We’re gonna follow the evidence where it leads and we’ll see, and I’m not gonna predetermine it this morning,” he added.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), when asked if there’s enough evidence for the House to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden:
“As we stand here today, I’m not predetermined that, but I do believe that very soon we are coming to a point of decision on it.” pic.twitter.com/LZSvatxBA1
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Johnson has stressed the necessity of going through due process with the impeachment, attempting to contrast the effort with the two Democratic-led impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
“I have been very consistent, intellectually consistent in this, and persistent that we have to follow due process and we have to follow the law,” he said. “That means following our obligation on the Constitution and doing appropriate investigations in the right way at the right pace so that the evidence comes in and we follow the evidence where it leads. You follow the truth where it leads.”
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Johnson made similar remarks Wednesday night when pressed by Fox News host Sean Hannity on whether he believed there was enough evidence to impeach the president.
“Next to a declaration of war, impeachment is the most serious power that Congress has,” the House speaker said. “We do not wield it for political purposes. We are following the truth where it leads. When you hear the evidence, you see this laid out and summarized. There is of course much more than we are able to do in one segment. We will follow the truth where it leads because we have a constitutional responsibility to do it.”
