The new House speaker wants to pursue impeachment charges based on baseless corruption claims against President Joe Biden but there's just one problem: U.S. Rep James Comer (R-KY) wants to be done with the hearings.
“I don’t know that I want to hold any more hearings, to be honest with you,” said Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee leading the impeachment charge. He said he preferred depositions, which “you can do more with.”
That didn't stop Johnson from taking to the airwaves Thursday night for his first interview as Speaker of the House to introduce himself and his priorities to the nation with an exclusive interview Sean Hannity.
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“If in fact all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that’s very likely impeachable offenses,” Johnson said. “I believe the documents are proving all that. The bank records don’t lie.”
Johnson was prompted by Hannity, whom the Washington Post notes has spent months peddling corruption theories based on scant evidence a recent FactCheck report notes has been “cherry-picked” by Comer.
“You have the issue of Joe on tape admitting that he used our money, taxpayer money, to leverage $1 billion in loan guarantees,” Hannity said, “which was Obama administration policy, to fire a prosecutor investigating his son.”
Johnson might have noted Biden was discussing a corrupt prosecutor who was not investigating his son, but he did not.
“That’s a pretty good recitation of the facts,” Johnson said. “I know people…just want somebody to be impeached.”
If viewers didn’t get a clear understanding of the case, or lack thereof, against Biden, they got an answer to one pressing question.
Yes, the new speaker supports impeachment, even if, at the moment, Comer does not want more hearings.
Read the full Washington Post take here.
