White House counsel Edward Siskel on Friday sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in which he declared the GOP-led impeachment probe of the president dead.
As Axios reports, Siskel encouraged Johnson to formally drop the impeachment probe and concentrate on solving problems that matter to American voters.
"There is too much important work to be done for the American people to continue wasting time on this charade," Siskel argued. "It is obviously time to move on, Mr. Speaker. This impeachment is over."
The letter comes at a time when GOP efforts to find evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Biden have fizzled, as earlier this year their star witness in the case was arrested and charged with fabricating claims to federal investigators about Biden accepting bribes from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
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In fact, Siskel even included both off-and-on-the-record quotes from House Republicans in his letter declaring the impeachment inquiry against Biden to be a massive flop.
Added to that, Siskel dismissed Republican demands for more information about Biden's handling of classified documents by describing it as "a flotation device for the sinking impeachment effort."
Even Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who has been taking the lead in the Biden impeachment probe, has been acknowledging that he doesn't currently have the votes to impeach the president and has instead tried to pivot to possibly making criminal referrals against Biden and his family instead, despite the fact that Department of Justice policy states that a sitting president cannot be criminally indicted.
