Impeach: Should Joe Biden face a trial?

Should President Joe Biden be impeached — be tried by Congress, and perhaps removed from office — for high crimes and misdemeanors?

That's our Question of the Week for readers.

Biden has of course not been impeached yet, as President Bill Clinton was, and President Donald Trump was, twice.

But Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, announced last week that he is directing the House of Representatives to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden over his family's business dealings, primarily to do with his son Hunter's employment by companies in Ukraine.

McCarthy says his Republican colleagues' House investigations “paint a picture of a culture of corruption” around Biden from before the Democratic president took office.

Biden retorted that the GOP is launching an investigation against him because they want to shut down the federal government. The White House has said that Joe Biden was not involved in his son's business affairs, and that Republicans have unearthed no significant evidence of wrongdoing by the elder Biden that would warrant impeachment.

Who's right?

Do you think investigations have shown there is a likelihood President Biden personally benefited financially from this son's complex business dealings in Ukraine?

What about the fact that the then-vice president was apparently put on speaker phone by his son when he was in a conference call with Ukrainian colleagues? Is that a sign of nefarious intent and complicity by the father, or was it merely showing off by the son?

Do you think Speaker McCarthy believes that the president should be impeached, or do you agree with the theory that he is merely trying to appease certain House colleagues who got him elected?

The White House has called the action in the midst of the presidential campaign “extreme politics at its worst.” Does the impeachment inquiry have more to do with politics or, well, unimpeachable facts?

Is the call to impeach a titfor-tat among the parties as revenge for the Trump impeachments by Democrats?

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