'Things don't look good' Biden warned THREE issues could lead to impeachment next week

The House is set to hold a formal vote on the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden next week, and one political expert said things “don’t look good” for Biden.

Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that the House is at an “inflection point” and accused the White House of “stonewalling” the investigation, which former Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched in September.

Johnson said: “They’re refusing to turn over key witnesses to allow them to testify as they’ve been subpoenaed…

“The House has no choice, if it’s going to follow its constitutional responsibility, to formally adopt an impeachment inquiry on the floor so that when the subpoenas are challenged in court we’ll be at the apex of our constitutional authority.”

Political expert Peggy Grande exclusively told Daily Express US that “as the evidence leads increasingly in that direction, [the House] will be unable to avoid pursuing this trail of evidence further - even if that means impeachment.”

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House Republicans have claimed - without proof - that Biden directly benefited from his family’s business dealings.

Grande said: “Things don’t look good for Joe Biden as the trail of evidence between money coming from China, and other adversarial foreign actors, has been directly linked to Hunter Biden entities, which have then paid Joe Biden.

“The banking industry was not fooled by these payments being called ‘loans,’ nor will the House committee be.”

Lawmakers held one public hearing on the Biden family’s business dealings, but legal experts at the hearing said they did not believe there was enough evidence to bring impeachment articles against the president.

Since then, the House Committee has issued subpoenas for Biden’s son Hunter and his brother James, as well as individuals with connections to Hunter.

The White House has slammed the subpoenas as “irresponsible” and “unjustified.”

White House spokesperson Ian Sams said in a memo last week that House Republicans have already had access to 35,000 pages of financial records, as well as 36 hours of witness interviews.

However, Johnson has made it clear that the vote held by GOP leaders next week is not a vote to impeach Biden but to allow lawmakers to “continue on pace” with the inquiry.

Johnson added on Tuesday that he believes Republicans would get the votes they needed, as moderates in the conference “understand this is not a political decision.”

He said: “This is a legal decision. It’s a constitutional decision. Whether someone is for or against impeachment is not of import right now.

“We have to continue our legal responsibility and that is only solely what this vote is about.”

The exact day the vote will take place next week has not yet been announced, but the House is scheduled to go on recess on December 14.

Grande added that House Republicans may find Democrats more useful in their efforts than expected.

She said: “Increasingly the Democrats are also worried about Joe Biden’s fitness for office, his diminishing mental capacity, and his viability to run a successful campaign, to win, and to complete a second term.”

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