Washington – Upstate Rep. Elise Stefnik, the No. 3 House Republican, has said GOP lawmakers could move to impeach President Biden next year after an investigation into his family’s foreign consulting businesses and his “illegal” request that Saudi Arabia cut oil production. delays until after. November 8 midterm elections.
“When there is a gross abuse of power and high crime and misdemeanor, it means something is on the table,” Stefnick told The Post Monday. accepted request That the Saudi-led OPEC+ cartel delayed oil production until after the Americans vote was a “very serious, unfair and illegal action by the President”.
“I’m very concerned about it, but it doesn’t surprise me. Democrats are absolutely desperate,” Stefanik said of the request. “It’s illegal and will be taken into account.”
Some aides of former President Donald Trump likened Biden’s effort to pressure Saudi Arabia to Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden Reportedly Earning $1 Million a Year While at natural gas company Burisma, Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
House Democrats impeached Trump for doing so in 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate, where a two-thirds majority is required to remove the president from office. In both cases, American weapons allegedly acted as leverage.
“Understanding the corruption in New York, I think it’s going to be a big, big asset for House Republicans to have a strong surveillance strategy,” Stefnik told The Post.
Stefnik, 38, first made a push for an investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he ordered nursing homes to take in COVID-19 patients and then death count covered, Last year, she was the first member of Congress To demand Cuomo’s resignation When allegations of sexual harassment surfaced.
“We need to get the facts, and I’m particularly concerned about Hunter Biden’s illegal acts and really benefiting from the fact that he is the son of the current President of the United States,” she said. “Plus, when it comes to the Justice Department and the FBI’s refusal to prosecute Hunter Biden for obvious crimes, we have a lot to investigate and we will follow the facts wherever we go. “
With Biden having a veto pen, Stefnick said House Republicans would use their projected majority to influence policy, while blocking new spending proposals and even pre-Biden spending from legislation. Will demand the refund of the money so made, where possible.
“Inflation is the biggest concern of voters not only in my district but across the country,” he said.
“What are the Republicans going to do? This is the number one priority and our ‘commitment to america‘ – an economy that is strong. And the only way we begin to strengthen the economy is to rein in inflation by stopping reckless spending bills,” Stefnick said. “We will use that power to the fullest … not only to roll back this reckless spending, but also to stop Joe Biden’s spending proposals … and that will lead to the inflation rate going down.”
In the next Congress, House is expected to pay significant attention to GOP inspection efforts — including efforts to identify visitors to Biden’s Delaware homes, where he has spent more than a quarter of his days meeting with the president. unknown person,
Stefnik said, “Republicans need to stand up for transparency and we should not hesitate to use our power of summons and use every possible tool to demand transparency to root out corruption at every level.” must be used.”
Stefnik said that “issuing the summons early is going to be incredibly important”—drawing an implicit contrast with House Democrats, who last week Voted to force Trump’s testimony About last year’s Capitol riot, which is unlikely to happen due to the imminent end of his mandate.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden isn’t the only official in the Republican landmarks. FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Meyercas may face intense investigations over their handling of the Hunter Biden case and the US-Mexico border crisis, respectively.
The impeachment of Biden and others has already been floated by some of the more hard-right members of the House Republican Conference and Stefnick said a decision would have to be made as a group about how to proceed.
“It’s up to Republicans as a convention to decide,” she said. “But I have been very forward-leaning. i have called [it] ‘Biden crime family.’ I have been one of those leaders who are calling this corruption and fighting for transparency and the only way to get transparency is in Republican majority when we have summoning power.
A Republican focus on the investigation is one of the most anticipated changes in Washington next year, as Biden’s enemies provided evidence that he was involved in his son and brother’s business deals that resulted in either corruption or conflicts of interest. . foreign Affairs.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied talking with his son about his overseas business deals, but evidence from Hunter’s own laptop casts doubt on that claim.
While the vice president, Joe Biden, attended A 2015 DC Dinner According to Hunter Biden laptop records, in which her son invited several international aides, including Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Baturina is one of a dwindling number of Russian oligarchs who have so far faced US sanctions over Russia’s eight-month-old invasion of Ukraine. she paid $3.5 million for a Hunter Biden-linked firm in 2014, according to a 2020 report from GOP-led Senate committees.
At the same 2015 dinner, a document points to Joe Biden met with an executive From the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. And apparently a photo taken at the dinner venue shows Joe Biden and his son with a trio of then-second son Kazakhstan business partner,
hunter biden Reportedly still owns 10% stake In the Chinese investment fund BHR Partners, which is controlled by Chinese state-owned entities. Hunter Biden co-founded BHR in 2013, about two weeks after moving to Beijing with his father in Air Force Two. While in Beijing, Hunter introduced his father to BHR CEO Jonathan Lee. Joe Biden later written college recommendation letter To Lee’s son and daughter.
In a separate Chinese deal, government-affiliated energy company CEFC paid first son Hunter Biden and first brother Jim Biden $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington Post. ex hunter biden Business partner Tony Bobulinsky accused a month before the 2020 election That the elder Biden was directly involved in the CEFC deal before launching his presidential campaign.
Bobulinsky said he spoke with Joe Biden about the project in May 2017 and that Joe Biden was the “big guy” he described in an email the same month as having a 10% stake in the initiative. A different business associate, James Gillier, Also recognized Joe Biden as the “big guy”.
Republicans say Biden is too soft towards China on a number of issues, including Chinese exports of fentanyl, which set a record 107,000 US drug overdose deaths last year. Biden also rarely mentions interest in determining the origin of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1 million Americans Possibly leaking from a Chinese lab.
Photos and emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop also indicate that Joe Biden in 2015 Hosted by his son and a group of Mexican business associates At the official residence of the Vice President. Joe and Hunter Biden posed for a group photo with Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.
In 2016, Hunter Biden emailed one of his Mexican aides, apparently while aboard Air Force Two for an official visit to Mexico, complaining that “I’ve brought every single person you’ve brought to me.” Is asked to “Fing the White House and the Vice President’s House and for the inauguration.”
hunter biden Business partner Eric Schwerin visited In the White House and the vice president’s residence at least 19 times while Joe Biden was vice president, the Obama administration’s visitor log shows further cast doubt on Joe Biden’s claims that he was unaware of his son’s business ventures.
In its 2020 impeachment trial to pressure Ukraine to investigate Bidens, then-President Trump’s defense team cited visitor logs that showed Joe Biden met his son’s partner, Devon Archer, in 2014, When Hunter Biden and Archer both joined the Burma board.
Ever since his father became president, Hunter Biden began an art career seeking $500,000 for his debut works. The White House theoretically developed a plan for those sales to be “anonymous” to prevent potential impact-peddling. Hunter Received at least $375,000 Last year’s Los Angeles art show was attended by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, one of his father’s ambassadorial nominees for five prints. It is not clear how much additional sales he would have made.