Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he has found “no evidence” at this time that shows President Joe Biden is guilty of anything ahead of an impeachment inquiry vote in the House.
“There’s some indication of maybe some compromise, with China particularly, but I have no evidence of it, and I’m going to just follow the facts where they are, and the facts haven’t taken me to that point where I can say that the president’s guilty of anything,” Grassley told reporters on Wednesday.
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Amazing. Chuck Grassley admits “I have no evidence … the fact haven’t taken me to that point where I can say the president is guilty of anything.” pic.twitter.com/fCuVcNLTB0
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Grassley, a longtime advocate for whistleblowers, has led the Senate’s side of the investigation into an alleged criminal scheme on behalf of Biden when he was serving as vice president since 2019. He has also been vetting allegations about the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden for years.
The Iowa senator recently asked the DOJ and the FBI to provide him with a wide range of records to determine whether the agencies vetted dozens of confidential human sources who provided criminal information about the Biden family to federal investigators.
Grassley said he had been made aware that the agencies had at one point maintained more than 40 sources who had criminal information about President Joe Biden, his brother James, and Hunter Biden.
“An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down? Indeed, if those sources were improperly shut down, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the FBI,” Grassley wrote at the time.
His comments on Wednesday came a few hours before the House is set to vote on an impeachment inquiry into Biden. It occurred on the same day that Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena to sit for a deposition on Capitol Hill.
The House will vote on the impeachment inquiry on the floor at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. In September, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced the House would open an inquiry without it going to the chamber floor for a vote. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants the full House to vote on it to authorize the inquiry.
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The impeachment inquiry is looking into whether Biden improperly used his position of power to benefit himself and his family, whether he used his influence to pressure the DOJ to help Hunter Biden, and how involved he was in his family’s foreign business dealings. The president has denied any wrongdoing.
The inquiry also focuses on an allegation raised in an FBI tip sheet that says Joe Biden, along with Hunter Biden, took bribes from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company for which Hunter Biden was a board member, to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor back when Joe Biden was vice president.
