'Ordered hit from Donald Trump': David Axelrod slams Biden impeachment vote as political

The impeachment of President Joe Biden was ordered from Mar-a-Lago, according to Democratic operative David Axelrod.

"I do think this is an ordered hit from Donald Trump who wants to portray equivalence," he said during a panel discussion on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "'They went after me!' [and now] 'We're going after him!'

"He wants to muddy the waters. And I think his supporters want to muddy the waters."

Axelrod, who served as former President Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist, also alluded to the face time between Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump last month at the 45th president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

"The Speaker made a pilgrimage to President Trump," said Axelrod. "Who knows what they talked about, but he came back and now we have this vote."

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The House voted 221 to 212 to authorize the impeachment probe of President Joe Biden, with all Republicans backing the process even though the investigation appears so far to center on his son, Hunter, who this week was indicted by Special Counsel David Weiss for felonious tax dodging.

President Donald Trump's former aide David Urban believes the move to impeach Biden is a political pastime.

"On President Trump's Inauguration Day, The Washington Post called for his impeachment on the day he was inaugurated," he said. "It's not like this sport just started two days ago or this evening on this vote."

"It started way, way back in the [Speaker Newt] Gingrich days when we impeached [President Bill] Clinton for something that may not have been impeachable; and here we sit tonight on the verge of another unstoppable movement."

Hunter Biden came out today to attest that the effort to impeach his father is baseless.

"There is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business, because it did not happen," Hunter Biden said.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-PA) hailed the result.

"The House has now spoken, and I think pretty loudly, pretty clearly with every single Republican voting in favor of moving into this official impeachment inquiry phase of our constitutional duty to do oversight," he said.

Axelrod is convinced that the GOP is doing Trump's bidding.

"I think Donald Trump wanted this vote," he said. "I think he would be very angry if there weren't this vote."

"And now the quest is does he pressure them to take more steps that [Speaker] Johnson simply can't deliver?"

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