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Republican attempt to impeach president Joe Biden got off to a rocky start on Thursday, with their star witness, legal expert Jonathan Turley, bluntly saying he doesn’t see it any evidence to support impeachment.
“I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment,” he testified.
Turley, a Fox News legal analyst and DC attorney who argued against it Donald Trump’s The 2019 impeachment trial was called by Republicans in the House of Representatives to testify during the first hearing of an investigation into whether Biden should be impeached. Republicans have been desperate for evidence of wrongdoing since long before Biden was elected, and the investigation gives them an opportunity to obtain material such as bank records.
While conceding there was no evidence to support impeachment, Turley did say he believed the House had “crossed the threshold” to open an investigation.
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, one of the Republican party’s impeachment witnesses, says: “I do not believe the current evidence would support articles of impeachment… But I also believe the House of Representatives has crossed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry. ” pic.twitter.com/x3cfYKwr5o
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He speculated that information could emerge if an official impeachment inquiry were launched. This, he said, should be enough for Republicans to launch an official investigation into the president.
The unconvincing comment was seized upon by the Biden campaign shared a video of the quote to its social channels.
Impeachment talks have been going on for nearly a year, with a group of Republicans focusing their claims on Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings and previously unsubstantiated suspicions that his father was guilty of corruption and abuse of public office.
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