Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has introduced new articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden — and within the first couple of days, he received zero cosponsors in the House.
Steube is not the first Republican to propose impeaching the president, and there have been separate demonstrations of that support, whether from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) or Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). Still, it’s clear there’s not an overwhelming majority — or anything necessarily close to it — eager in the House to actually impeach the president, no matter any gusto from his vocal Republican opponents.
Steube’s proposed impeachment of Biden centers on various claims, even including ties to prostitution, around which there’s no evidence that establishes a substantial connection. “Given the intermingled finances of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, Joe Biden financially supported and should have been aware of these drug transactions and prostitutions transactions,” Steube’s proposal asserts. “Many of these transactions would have occurred using accounts with a nexus to Joe Biden.” Nowhere in this proposed impeachment of the president are any specific processes outlined by which money went directly from the current president to illegal activity, let alone something that would implicate the president in knowing involvement with such ostensibly illegal acts.
The proposed articles of impeachment from Steube also tie the president to allegedly corrupt business dealings involving other members of his family, but it’s not clear any financial connection has been made between the president and whatever Hunter Biden or anyone else was doing in this context either. There are four areas of allegations in total, also including claims of interference with the progression of the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden — claims that David Weiss, the Trump-nominated U.S. Attorney running the probe, has refuted. Weiss is now formally a special counsel to continue dealing with the Hunter Biden investigation, further separating his work from the main chain of command at the federal Justice Department, though Republicans claimed politics anyway.
