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The House voted on Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong G.O.P. investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors.

Republicans said the vote was needed to give them full authority to continue carrying out their investigation amid anticipated legal challenges from the White House. Democrats have denounced the inquiry as a fishing expedition and a political stunt.

G.O.P. leaders refrained for months from calling a vote to open an impeachment inquiry, given the reservations of mainstream Republicans, many of them from politically competitive districts, about moving forward without proof that Mr. Biden had done anything wrong. Instead, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker at the time, unilaterally announced one in September as he was facing pressure from the far right to deliver on its priorities, including impeaching the president.

But Wednesday’s vote underscored how the political ground has shifted, with Republicans willing to endorse an inquiry even as some emphasized that they were not yet ready to charge the president. The vote was along party lines with all Republicans voting to approve the inquiry and all Democrats opposed.

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Performance art for an audience of one. Trump the Puppeteer of the Republican Party.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, you give that brain dead moron way too much credit. Putin is pulling the strings.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree but this is obviously just childish vindictiveness that is signature Trump.

[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

naaah i think the Powers That Be have some sort of massive dirt on looooots o' GOP members, which is how they got into politics to begin with.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Remember when the NRA got caught funneling massive amounts of Russian money to these assholes?

That is just one opportunity

Remember when Trump’s campaign manager went to jail for being a Russian agent and was pardoned by Trump?

The list goes on

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remember when the DNC got hacked into by two different hacking groups that released all the dirt on the Dems before the election of Trump.

And remember when the RNC was hacked into in the same ways, except absolutely no dirt was leaked into public?

Ruzzia (and therefore Trump) has all the dirt and Kompromat on the GOP. They’re all his puppets.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That "dirt on the dems" was so tame but the news blew up anyway. And Hillary got the worst of it with that fruitless trial anyway. It was so stupid.