House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) laid out the evidence against President Joe Biden and accused the president of lying about his family’s foreign business dealings in a Tuesday letter to his colleagues detailing why he had launched an impeachment inquiry.
McCarthy announced the inquiry after months of investigations by House Republicans, who say they have found evidence of a global influence-peddling scheme to enrich the Biden family.
“Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden lied to the American people about knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings,” McCarthy wrote in the letter.
The inquiry will be headed up by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO).
In the letter, McCarthy discussed the key findings of the investigations into Biden, including that lawmakers had heard eyewitness testimony that said Biden was present on phone calls with Hunter Biden…