Has Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma thrown a wrench into his own party's impeachment inquiry into President Biden?
On Friday, Mullin said that Biden cannot be impeached for anything that occurred before his election in 2020.
The Hill reports:
Mullin's statement in an interview with Newsmax pours cold water on a House GOP investigation into Biden's family's business dealings, particularly Hunter Biden's work with foreign companies, while Biden was vice president during the Obama administration and immediately after.
He warned that any high crime or misdemeanor that may serve as the basis for articles of impeachment “has to be committed while he was in office, the current office he holds.”
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“So what he did as vice president, what he did in between the two [offices] may not be impeachable,” he said during an interview on Newsmax's “Wake Up America.”
Mullin made his statement two days after the House voted along party lines, 221-212, to approve a resolution authorizing a formal impeachment inquiry of Biden and whether he benefited improperly from his son Hunter's business dealings with foreign entities.
However, Mullin also told “Wake Up America” that five Democratic senators confided in him that they would vote to convict Biden if evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor is uncovered, which is the constitutional bar for impeachment.
“If they send us a case, make sure it's convictable,” Mullin forewarned House Republicans. “The bar's real high, there's no question about it.”
In February 2021, the majority of Republican senators voted to acquit former President Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection after the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Many based their decision on technical grounds, arguing that Trump was no longer in office by the time of the impeachment trial.
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