White House to GOP: End Biden impeachment
WASHINGTON — The White House insisted Friday that House Republicans end their effort to impeach President Joe Biden, declaring that “enough is enough” after their monthslong inquiry failed to turn up promised evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.
“There is too much important work to be done for the American people to continue wasting time on this charade,” Edward Siskel, the White House counsel, wrote in a fourpage letter to Speaker Mike Johnson.”
The letter comes as the Republican impeachment drive has all but collapsed after the indictment of a key witness on charges of making up allegations against Hunter Biden, the president’s son. A number of Republicans have cast doubt on the venture, and even some champions of impeachment have now concluded that they could not muster a majority if they sent articles to the floor charging the president.
The White House hopes to capitalize on Republicans’ disarray, although the hard-liners in the GOP conference are unlikely to choose either option.
House Republicans argue that they are still investigating and have scheduled a hearing with Hunter Biden’s former business associates next week. They are also demanding recordings from the investigation of special counsel Robert Hur, who examined the president’s handling of classified documents, even though that was not among the topics of the impeachment inquiry.
In his letter Friday, Siskel quoted Republicans themselves as saying that they “can’t identify a particular crime” supposedly committed by the president and lamenting that they had made impeachment “a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept.”