Legal expert explains why there's no evidence to convict anyone — much less impeach Biden
Former federal prosecutor and University of Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade walked through the information presented by Republicans in the House Oversight Committee Thursday and whether it is "enough" to lead to conviction or impeachment of President Joe Biden.
MSNBC's Chris Jansing played a clip of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC) accusing Biden of having an office space that housed a Chinese-aligned company. She also accused Hunter Biden of calling his father the "family's only asset."
"Is that what constitutes evidence as you know it?" Jansing asked. "Or was there anything you heard so far today, Barbara, that constitutes evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors?"
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McQuade said simply, "None, whatsoever."
She explained that, when a criminal investigation is started, there must be "predication, and that means sound evidence, articulable evidence from which you believe a crime has been committed that should begin an investigation."
McQuade also noted that, with public officials, there's typically the necessity for two pieces of evidence to be submitted before an investigation starts.
"Here all we have is some puffery out of the mouth of Hunter Biden," she explained. "Was Hunter Biden trading on his father's name? It appears that he absolutely was shamelessly, but that has nothing to do with Joe Biden himself. So, until they have evidence that Joe Biden was involved in some sort of illegal activity or some sort of activity that compromised his ability to serve as President of the United States, an inquiry is really out of bounds in my view."
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She also explained that moves like this "diminish the value of what an impeachment is all about, and perhaps that is the goal."
On his personal social media site, Donald Trump demanded that the Republicans impeach Biden as a way of retribution.
"If every president gets impeached for something, then impeachment means nothing, and so, therefore, the impeachments of Donald Trump we just shrug and say, well, all presidents get impeached. It's all political," she said.
Former George W. Bush strategist, Matthew Dowd, called Thursday's hearing "catastrophic" because the witnesses agreed that there wasn't enough evidence to impeach Biden.
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