Top Republican demands House launch Joe Biden impeachment probe over Hunter allegations
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has called for a Congressional probe over whether to impeach Joe Biden over his son’s messages with Chinese officials.
Cruz, speaking on a podcast, said a string of texts show that Hunter Biden was using his access to his father to win his lucrative business deals abroad.
It comes after the 53-year-old First Son struck a plea deal last week with federal prosecutors in Delaware over tax and firearm offenses.
But GOP bigwig Cruz said Congress should open an investigation into whether the president himself was using his position to line his pockets.
Cruz said on his podcast that Congress should open a possible impeachment probe into Joe Biden amid allegations that he may have personally benefited from Hunter’s business dealings
‘Look, this WhatsApp is direct evidence of Joe Biden abusing his government power to enrich his son, and, assuming 10% for the big guy, to enrich himself,’ he said.
‘Remember, this WhatsApp says ‘we want to know.’ This is not just me, Hunter, just mooching off my dad…. Of course the House needs to investigate it,’ the top Republican claimed.
But any idea that an impeachment motion would succeed is far-fetched because the upper house of Congress, the Senate, is currently controlled by the Democrats.
Conservatives have long claimed that Hunter Biden has been guilty of using his family connections to rake in millions of dollars abroad.
They are investigating his deals in Ukraine and China that they claim were struck thanks to the access he got to his father, who was vice-president under Barack Obama.
The president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’
Hunter was reportedly texting Chinese Communist Party official Henry Zhao
Hunter Biden’s many controversies have been a regular headache for his father during his stint in the White House
In the 2017 WhatsApp message singled out by Cruz, Hunter sent a menacing threat to a Chinese Communist Party official after Joe Biden had left the VP office.
He hinted to Henry Zhao, CEO of Harvest Fund Management, that his father would see to it that he would be punished if he did not comply with the unspecified demand.
‘And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.’
‘I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,’ Hunter Biden reportedly said.
The allegations undercut consistent claims from the Biden family and administration that Joe was not involved in his son’s foreign business dealings.
Hunter’s lawyers have insisted the WhatsApp was the ramblings of a troubled man in the midst of a drug addiction.
On Friday, a lawyer for IRS whisteblower Gary Shapley claimed that his attempts to get to the bottom of the WhatsApp story had been rebuffed by prosecutors.
‘The agents wanted to follow up on this and the prosecutors told them not to because, oh, well, maybe Hunter Biden was puffing or something like that,’ said Mark Lytle, Shapley’s attorney.
He told Fox News on Friday: ‘So the agent said, well, let’s get the GPS location of the two of the father and the son, and let’s see if they’re actually in the same room at that time.
Gary Shapley said that Hunter Biden got preferential treatment from IRS and FBI officials
Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, have dismissed the allegations against his client
On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers – including Shapley – who said the Justice Department, FBI and IRS interfered with the investigation of the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden.
Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri who chairs the committee, claimed that testimony ‘outlines misconduct and government abuse at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the investigation of Hunter Biden.
‘Whistleblowers describe how the Biden Justice Department intervened and overstepped in a campaign to protect the son of Joe Biden by delaying, divulging, and denying an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes.’
President Biden has stood by his son Hunter in the face of a series of lawsuits
Last week, Hunter Biden settled a child support legal spat with his former fling Lunden Roberts over payments for their daughter Navy Joan, 4.
The committee said on Thursday: ‘The allegations point to a steady campaign of: unequal treatment of enforcing tax law; Department of Justice interference in the form of delays, divulgences, and denials, into the investigation of tax crimes that may have been committed by the President’s son; and finally, retaliation against IRS employees who blew the whistle on the misconduct.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer Chris Clark, who negotiated a plea agreement on Hunter’s behalf with the Justice Department, called the whistleblower ‘biased’ and claimed the account covered ‘a time of turmoil and addiction’ for the president’s son.
He also disputed the veracity of Hunter’s claim about now-President Biden in the WhatsApp message, saying his words have ‘no connection to anyone in his family.’
‘An extensive, five-year-long investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice concluded this week, which resulted in my client taking responsibility for two instances of misdemeanor failure to file tax payments, as well as a firearm charge, which will be subject to a pretrial diversion agreement,’ said Clark.
The First Son also managed to strike an out-of-court settlement with an alleged former fling Lunden Roberts in a long-running row over child support payments.
The 53-yearold will now pay $5,000 a month to support his daughter Navy Joan, 4, who he has never met.