On Thursday, freshman lawmaker Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) told Fox News he is drafting articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his recent threat to cut off aid to Israel.
“The House has no choice but to impeach President ‘Quid pro Joe' Biden. As Vice President, Biden was caught threatening to withhold funding and aid to Ukraine unless they fired the attorney general investigating Burisma, a company financially benefiting his son Hunter, not to mention the 10% share for ‘the big guy' himself,” Mills said in a statement.
“Now, Joe Biden is pressuring Israel, our biggest ally in the Middle East, by pausing their funding that has already been approved in the House, if they don't stop all operations with Hamas. It's a very clear message, ‘this for that.'
“These are the same accusations made against President Trump, which resulted in his impeachment by Democrats. The same must happen for Joe Biden, which is why we're drawing up articles of impeachment now,” Mills finished.
Biden made the high-stakes ultimatum to Israel's government in a CNN interview that aired Wednesday night.
Biden said Israel would continue to see U.S. support for its defensive systems, like the Iron Dome, in the CNN interview. He added, however, “if they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.”
The measure is unlikely to reach the level of a Senate trial as the House is currently struggling though its ongoing impeachment inquiry into Biden for accusations of improper behavior and bribery.
The first member of Congress to make the call was Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) posting on X early on Thursday morning, “The House has no choice but to impeach Biden based on the Trump-Ukraine precedent of withholding foreign aid to help with reelection. Only with Biden, it's true.”
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) echoed Cotton's statement and called on the House to open an immediate impeachment inquiry.
“Given Democrats' Trump-Ukraine precedent, President Biden's decision to withhold lethal aid to our ally, Israel, for political gain is undoubtedly an impeachable offense. Clearly, the nefarious motive behind our commander in chief's move to condition U.S. aid to Israel is to appease radical leftists and Hamas sympathizers ahead of the 2024 election,” Clyde said. “The House must immediately open an impeachment inquiry due to the president's disastrous decision to play politics with national security.”
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