Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell believes that impeaching Joe Biden would not be in the best interests of the United States, even as House Republicans discover tens of millions of dollars the Biden family received from oligarchs in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan while Biden was vice president.
McConnell reaffirmed his commitment against impeaching Biden, or anyone, when speaking to the New York Times for an article declaring impeachments and censures “the norm in Congress.”
“I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing,” McConnell told the outlet.
He added that impeachments should be “rare” and declared, “This is not good for the country.”
McConnell recently made headlines when he appeared to suffer a medical episode while speaking to the media, immediately freezing and staring into the camera for several seconds as onlookers waited for him to speak. Ultimately, McConnell was walked off stage by an aide, and when he returned he was able to speak.
This came after McConnell suffered an undisclosed fall, which in turn came after a lengthy convalescence following a public fall at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
The 81-year-old politician’s feud with 45th President Donald Trump earned him boos, and chants of “retire” and “ditch Mitch” during a recent public appearance in Kentucky.
The prospect of impeaching Biden is gaining traction among some House Republicans, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggesting the possibility of an impeachment inquiry in response to House investigations into the Biden family. Still, McCarthy has been insistent that House Republicans are still gathering evidence and have yet to decide whether to formally open an inquiry3.
Still, Trump loyalists and populist Republicans in the U.S. House are pushing for impeachments. Both Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced their own articles of impeachment against the president, and McCarthy ultimately told Boebert that the articles would be examined by a legal team.
Previous calls for impeachment have generally focused on Biden’s alleged dereliction of duty at the southern border, where millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country under his watch. However, new calls for impeachment generally focus on claims that Biden directly oversaw and benefited from Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.
It was reported today that Hunter Biden, through his various business entities, received more than $20 million from foreign entities, including the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, the wife of the former Mayor of Moscow, and an oligarch in Kazakhstan.
