House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said President Joe Biden is providing a flashback to former President Richard Nixon.
While commenting on the news of Hunter Biden dialing his father, then the vice president, into business meetings as part of an alleged “criminal bribery scheme,” McCarthy compared the House Oversight Committee’s current investigation into alleged foreign payments made to Biden and his family to the political scandal of Watergate that became the demise of Nixon’s presidency in the early 1970s.
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“This is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed,” McCarthy told Hannity. “Because this president has also used something we have not seen since Richard Nixon — use the weaponization of government to benefit his family and deny Congress the ability to have the oversight.”
On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated that “the president was never in business with his son.”
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Last week, two IRS whistleblowers testified before Congress that previous Justice Department investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes and business dealings were treated irregularly.
Former business partner of Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, 48, is set to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee next week.
