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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."
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.
"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?"
