House GOP could be laying a 'trap' in Biden impeachment inquiry: report

The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden has been criticized for its lack of evidence for the GOP's allegations that the president laundered bribes through his son Hunter's international business deals.

In fact, even some of the GOP's own witnesses have contradicted the idea Biden was involved in his son's work.

But they might not be relying on finding evidence, Time Magazine reported on Tuesday. Rather, their plan might be to drown the president in frivolous subpoenas for information until they have an excuse to claim he committed obstruction of justice.

"Some experts suspect the GOP will try to trap Biden by making outlandish requests for information that he doesn’t provide, and then argue that he impeded the inquiry," reported Eric Cortellessa, noting that because the House has now formally set up an impeachment investigation, "anything Biden does that can be viewed as obstruction could constitute an impeachable offense."

He went on, "Republicans could 'send any kind of subpoena and then on a partisan vote say the President didn’t give us what we asked for,' says Michael Conway, an attorney who served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee’s 1974 impeachment inquiry into former President Richard Nixon. One of the three articles of impeachment considered against Nixon was for defying an impeachment inquiry."

House Republicans have used this type of tactic in the past.

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For example, during their investigation of the botched Operation Fast & Furious "gun-walking" operation, they never found any evidence Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder broke the law, but simply continued to demand internal DOJ communications until the administration stopped providing them, then referred Holder for contempt of Congress.

All of this is advancing as many Biden-district Republicans in the GOP caucus express reservations over the whole impeachment push, with even those who voted to authorize the investigation saying there is no evidence to support impeachment at the moment.