Democrats Link Trump Indictments With GOP Quest To Impeach Biden
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Democrats Link Trump Indictments With GOP Quest To Impeach Biden
Democrats Link Trump Indictments With GOP Quest To Impeach Biden
A consideration by House GOP leaders of an impeachment inquiry into the sitting president, the possibility of a third Trump indictment, polling that suggests the 2024 election could be a rematch between the two men: allies of President Joe Biden see a connection.
Trump’s growing lead over his Republican competitors has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle preparing for a scenario in which the twice-impeached, twice-indicted, former President Trump makes a once unthinkable political comeback and is chosen by GOP voters to compete against Joe Biden.
Democrats are linking Trump’s legal problems and his performance in the Republican presidential contest – in which he currently has a comfortable lead of 30 or more points in national polling – to a GOP push to launch a formal investigation into Biden over unsubstantiated allegations of corruption.
In response to earlier calls from GOP lawmakers for Biden’s impeachment, White House spokesman Ian Sams said allegations against Biden have been “Debunked for years.” Sams said the allegations were scrutinized during Trump’s first impeachment trial and “Have been found to lack credibility.”
Democratic strategist Leslie Dach, a former Obama administration official who is advising a group that is focused on defending Biden in House investigations, pointed to Trump’s comparison of his first impeachment to the allegations Republicans have levied against Biden.
Swalwell, an impeachment manager in the second Trump case, said the GOP undermines its own credibility by focusing on impeaching Biden.
I assume that Donald Trump, the presumed frontrunner for the GOP nomination doesn’t want to be the only impeached candidate in the presidential election campaign, so they want to add impeachment to Joe Biden’s resume,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who prosecuted the second Trump case, told USA TODAY. “But the only thing they’re missing is a high crime or misdemeanor. And that’s the constitutional standard. You don’t impeach people because you disagree with their policy positions or because you need to gain some political leverage.”
“We’ve been in the Oversight committee for the last seven months and say what you will about Hunter Biden, who was clearly a troubled and drug addicted man, no one has laid a glove on Joe Biden and no one has connected Joe Biden to any credible allegations of corruption,” Raskin said.
Source: USA TODAY
