Impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden

Impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden
President Biden meeting with then-Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, February 1, 2023.
Accused	Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States
Proponents	Kevin McCarthy (Speaker of the House of Representatives until October 3, 2023) Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House of Representatives beginning October 25, 2023)
Lead official	James Comer
Committees	Oversight Judiciary Ways and Means
Committee chairs	James Comer (Oversight) Jim Jordan (Judiciary) Jason Smith (Ways and Means)
Date	September 12, 2023 – present (7 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Outcome	Initiation of formal impeachment proceedings
Charges	Political corruption, abuse of power, obstruction
Cause	Allegations that Joe Biden financially benefited from business dealings with his son, Hunter Biden Allegations that Hunter was given preferential treatment during a federal investigation

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On September 12, 2023, Kevin McCarthy, the then-speaker of the United States House of Representatives, announced an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The inquiry was conducted by the House's Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, was named to lead the investigation.

Speaker McCarthy had twelve days earlier said an inquiry would require a majority House vote. He initiated the inquiry stating that recent House investigations "paint a picture of corruption" by Biden and his family.^[1][2][3][4] No congressional investigations had yet discovered any evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden himself.^[a] The inquiry held a public hearing on September 28, 2023.^[9]

Despite neither the earlier Comer committee investigation nor the impeachment inquiry finding evidence of wrongdoing by the president, on December 13, 2023, majority House Republicans unanimously approved a resolution to formalize the inquiry. Democrats unanimously voted against the resolution.^[10]

On February 15, 2024, the FBI arrested and charged Alexander Smirnov, who was the central^[11][12] figure in bribery allegations against Joe Biden for lying to investigators and fabricating an uncorroborated^[11] story to damage Biden's reelection campaign, and that "officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved" in manufacturing the story.^{[11][13][14][15]}

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