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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

The Impeachment Inquiry to Forever

March 13, 2024 · 5:31 am ET · Leave a Comment

Punchbowl News: “Top Republicans admit there’s still no conclusive evidence of an impeachable offense that shows Biden acted improperly while in office to enrich his family members.”

“And no one in the House GOP leadership has a clear vision for how this all ends, including whether there will be an impeachment vote at some point.”

Playbook: “Behind the scenes, Republicans of all ideological persuasions are increasingly admitting that they pulled the trigger on Biden’s impeachment too soon and that the effort has been hobbled by embarrassing setbacks. They’ve accused the president of profiting off the Oval Office but have yet to find any proof that the president benefited from his family’s business dealings. And it doesn’t help their case that the informant behind the most prominent and scandalous accusations of corruption by Biden was found to have lied to the FBI about those allegations and has been indicted.”

“The GOP is also dealing with a brutal math problem. Republicans in swing districts continue to balk at taking an impeachment vote when they say there’s no proof of high crimes.”

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