Trump Demands Biden Be Impeached-- His Fully-Owned And Operated House Will Deliver

With DeSantis basically dead-in-the-water, congressional MAGAts only have one over-arching goal. They’re aware that they can’t pass any legislation so everything they do it geared to getting their Führer back into the White House. One of the tasks they’re undertaking for him is to impeach— or at least make a lot of noise about impeaching— Biden, even if they know it would be unlikely to pass the House and, obviously impossible to make it through the Senate. But MAGA world demands it to make up for Trump’s two impeachments— which they plan to “expunge.”

There are three impeachment resolutions awaiting action now— two from Georgia QAnon crackpot Marjorie Traitor Greene from last year, H.Res57 which has 1 co-sponsor, Illinois QAnon lady Mary Miller, and H.Res596, which has 2 co-sponsors, Paul Gosar (Nazi-AZ) and Miller. The second, H.Res 503 one was introduced by Colorado QAnon lady Lauren Boebert. There are 4 co-sponsors: Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Eli Crane (R_AZ) on day 1 and then Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Cory Mills (R-FL). Hold the presses— I just saw that Traitor-Greene has a new version of her impeachment resolutions out now: H.Res420, which has 4 co-sponsors, Gaetz, Mills, Josh Brecheen (R-OK) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN).

Reporting on the QAnon impeachment scene for the NY Times yesterday, Karoun Demirjian wrote that the GOP conference is “deeply divided.” Party leaders and rank-and-file members worry that it’s “a politically risky battle that they cannot win.” They sent Boebert’s resolution to the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees as “a stalling tactic by McCarthy to quell the urgent calls for action from the hard right… [M]any Republicans are worried that without a stronger case against the president, even trying the move could be disastrous for their party.”

Many of them don’t even want to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who McCarthy, under pressure, now says is fair game if they have to impeach someone.

“We’re supposed to impeach on high crimes and misdemeanors,” said Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska and a moderate who previously stated he opposed impeaching Mayorkas over a policy disagreement. When asked whether he was any more inclined to support impeaching Biden for the same reason, he answered, “Not really.”

Even among Republicans who support removing Biden, there is deep skepticism about whether focusing on his border policies is the best place to build an impeachment case against him.

“To be frank with you, I think that our issue is a side issue— it’s not the main issue here,” said Representative Carlos Gimenez, Republican of Florida and a member of the homeland security panel. He said accusations of financial impropriety involving the president’s son, Hunter Biden, which are being investigated by the House Oversight Committee, are “where the president really is going to have the majority of his problems.”

But that panel has yet to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by Biden despite months of scrutiny and the frequent public claims by top Republicans that he has engaged in corrupt and potentially criminal behavior.

The push to impeach Biden comes amid a fierce struggle between McCarthy and a right-wing faction of his party that has been in open revolt ever since he struck a debt ceiling deal with the president. That faction includes Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado, who forced a vote in June demanding that Biden be investigated on allegations of having “intentionally facilitated a complete and total invasion at the southern border.” Her resolution made no mention of Mayorkas.

The measure thrust McCarthy into an awkward position. Despite his frequent criticism of Biden for having “failed” the country with “open-border policies,” the speaker has pushed back on efforts to impeach the president, arguing Republicans had yet to articulate a good reason for doing so.

The move also forced the House Homeland Security Committee to abruptly pivot barely a week after Representative Mark Green, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the panel, presented a 55-page report detailing “why Secretary Mayorkas must be investigated for his border crisis”— the preliminary findings of an inquiry he has been heralding for months.

…The Judiciary Committee traditionally writes and approves articles of impeachment before they are sent for a vote by the full House. The recent vote on Boebert’s measure sent the articles against Biden to both panels.

In the absence of clear direction, Republicans on the homeland security panel are struggling to figure out how to prioritize their new Biden-focused charge without undermining their ongoing inquiry into Mayorkas. Some suggested that the new priority would prolong the committee’s work on Mayorkas, which Green had predicted would wrap up in early fall.

“It might change timing,” said Representative Austin Pfluger, [psycho] Republican of Texas, adding that while it was “probably important” to continue on both tracks, the referral for Biden made that line of inquiry “really important.”

Others suggested that completing a case against Mayorkas would only help them to build an argument against Biden, who set the policies Mayorkas has carried out.

“Our focus on Secretary Mayorkas has been squarely over enforcement of immigration law and border policy, but I think the subject matter was limited,” said Representative Dan Bishop, [psycho] Republican of North Carolina. “This inevitably opens it up to other questions.”