The House of Representatives had plenty of fireworks Wednesday during the Oversight and Accountability Committee’s hearing into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, was one of the star witnesses of the hearing and so was his Blackberry. See How X-Men ’97 Faithful Riffs on the Classic … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by House Republicans related to the Hunter Biden criminal investigation in another brewing faceoff in the President Joe Biden impeachment inquiry. The department said it has already taken “extraordinary steps” to rebut claims of political interference in … Read more
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, through her attorney, responded Friday to one of House Republicans’ top impeachment witnesses, Tony Bobulinski, claiming in a letter first obtained by ABC News that comments he made in his recent interview with the House Oversight Committee were “defamatory,” with her attorney providing a photo of an alleged … Read more
MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas met Saturday with newly elected Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and discussed regional migration, security and the economy in the Central American nation, they said. The meeting at the Munich Security Conference came days after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Mayorkas for … Read more
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrowly avoided impeachment Tuesday, as the vote to oust him failed by a vote of 216-214. It had been 215-215, but a Utah congressman switched his vote from “yes” to “no” in the last moments before voting closed. Rep. Blake Moore, who was recently elected as vice chair … Read more
Republicans had hoped that Hunter Biden could have helped prove their central allegation that his father, Joe Biden, engaged in a pay-to-play scheme and acted corruptly while in office. But Hunter Biden refused to testify behind closed doors. And now the GOP may simply assume what they haven’t been able to prove, that the bribery … Read more
An old legal argument used by Donald Trump has come back to bite him. As Trump argues for immunity from prosecution, judges brought up his impeachment defense. Trump’s lawyers are now arguing the exact opposite of what his impeachment attorneys said in 2021. Donald Trump’s lawyer said he should be immune from criminal prosecution unless … Read more
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos originally threatened to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she did not recuse herself from the … Read more
Right-wing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called out Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. for admitting during a recent NBC interview that the House Oversight Committee has yet to produce a “smoking gun” linking President Joe Biden to his son Hunter Biden’s allegedly corrupt foreign business dealings. Earlier this month, Hunter Biden was charged with nine … Read more
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he believes the “narrative” at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden is “falling apart,” arguing if there was a “smoking gun” in the inquiry, there would be more clear discussions. “If there were a smoking gun, I think we’d be talking about it,” Graham … Read more