WASHINGTON (AP) — The White Home on Monday rejected a long-shot effort from Home Republicans to get President Joe Biden to testify earlier than lawmakers within the GOP’s stalled impeachment inquiry.
In a letter to Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the White Home dismissed the invitation despatched to Biden final month, calling it a “partisan charade” in an impeachment probe that has unearthed no proof implicating the president in any wrongdoing whereas in public workplace. Home Republicans had been searching for data associated to the Biden household’s enterprise dealings in what the GOP characterised as an alleged influence-peddling scheme.
“Your Committee’s purported ‘impeachment inquiry’ has succeeded solely in turning up considerable proof that, actually, the President has finished nothing improper,” Richard Sauber, particular counsel to the president, wrote within the letter despatched to Comer on Monday.
Sauber added, “Your insistence on peddling these false and unsupported allegations regardless of ample proof on the contrary makes one factor about your investigation abundantly clear: The details don’t matter to you.”
Sauber himself is leaving the White Home early subsequent month, one other signal from the administration’s perspective that the Home Republicans’ push to question Biden is essentially over. The lawyer was introduced on in 2022 to supervise the White Home’s response to congressional investigations as Democrats braced to lose their majorities on Capitol Hill later that November.
To exchange Sauber, the White Home is elevating his deputy, Rachel Cotton. Sauber is returning to the personal sector.
In his request to the White Home, Comer had requested Biden to “clarify, below oath,” what involvement he had within the Biden household companies.
The committee has asserted for the previous yr that the Bidens traded on the household title, by making an attempt to hyperlink a handful of telephone calls or dinner conferences between Joe Biden, when he was vice chairman or out of workplace, and Hunter Biden and his enterprise associates.
However regardless of dedicating numerous sources and interviewing dozens of witnesses, together with the president’s son Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James Biden, Republicans haven’t produced any proof that exhibits Joe Biden was instantly concerned or benefited from his household’s companies whereas in public workplace.
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Related Press author Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
