{"id":2326865,"date":"2024-08-19T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-blasts-biden-impeachment-report-as-spectacular-failure-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:05:13","slug":"raskin-blasts-biden-impeachment-report-as-spectacular-failure-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-blasts-biden-impeachment-report-as-spectacular-failure-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin blasts Biden impeachment report as &#8216;spectacular failure&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fraskin-blasts-biden-impeachment-report-as-spectacular-failure-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2326865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The top Democrat on the\u200c House Oversight Committee, Jamie Raskin, has denounced\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denounces-biden-impeachment-report-failed-stunt-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"White House denounces Biden impeachment report: \u2018Failed stunt\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">recent impeachment report<\/a> by House Republicans, describing it as a &#8220;spectacular \u2064failure.&#8221; He argues that substantial evidence shows President Joe Biden committed no wrongdoing and criticizes Republicans for attempting to &#8220;weaponize&#8221; his relationship with his son, Hunter Biden. Raskin released \u200ba 72-page response claiming that \u200cafter investigating Biden for \u2062over a year, Republicans have produced little substantive evidence for their politically motivated inquiries. The GOP led a comprehensive investigation\u200b that identified over $27 million received by Biden\u2019s family through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">foreign business dealings<\/a>, suggesting impeachable conduct, including\u2064 abuse of power. However, they struggled to directly link this money to any actions by\u2064 Biden during his vice presidency. Raskin accused Republicans of distorting facts and relying on misleading information, ultimately\u2062 asserting that the investigation has not only failed to prove any\u200c high crimes but \u2063has also produced \u2063evidence exonerating Biden. The GOP report refrained \u2063from\u2062 recommending an impeachment vote, stating that their inquiry would continue\u2062 and should not be taken lightly.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Top House Democrat blasts Biden impeachment report as &lsquo;spectacular failure&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1732421\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The top Democrat on the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House Oversight<\/a> Committee criticized the impeachment report released by House Republicans on Monday, arguing there is &ldquo;voluminous evidence&rdquo; that President<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> Joe Biden<\/a> committed no wrongdoing and that Republicans sought to &ldquo;weaponize&rdquo; his relationship with his son, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hunter Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/democrats-oversight.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2024-08-19.DEM%20Memo%20re%20Impeachment%20Inquiry%20Exonerates%20President%20Biden.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>72-page response <\/a>to the report, House Oversight ranking member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jamie-raskin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-MD) blasted the GOP for investigating Joe Biden for over a year and coming up with what he said was little to no evidence to support &ldquo;its most baseless and nakedly political investigations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A trio of GOP-led committees identified more than $27 million received by members of the president&rsquo;s family and their associates through their business dealings abroad, leading Republicans to conclude in their long-awaited, 291-page report that Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3125455\/biden-family-and-associates-made-27m-from-foreign-business-after-boosts-from-joe-biden-impeachment-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>engaged in &ldquo;impeachable conduct,&rdquo;<\/a> including abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>But the GOP struggled to tie that money to Biden conclusively or actions he took as vice president. Eventually, the investigation lost steam in the face of opposition from Republican centrists who feared there was no smoking gun to warrant an article of impeachment for high crimes or misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin said Republicans had to resort to &ldquo;distorting the evidence&rdquo; by relying on &ldquo;cherry-picked and misleading information&rdquo; in bank documents, transactions, and testimony from key witnesses such as the president&rsquo;s brother, James Biden, and former Hunter Biden business partners Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having failed to identify a single high crime, misdemeanor, or impeachable offense against President Biden, Republicans have resorted to asserting vague, unsubstantiated, and thoroughly debunked allegations of so-called &lsquo;influence-peddling&rsquo; by &lsquo;the Biden family&rsquo; and their &lsquo;associates&rsquo; &mdash; a tacit admission that they cannot identify any wrongdoing by President Biden himself,&rdquo; Raskin wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In sum, this investigation has not simply failed to prove that Joe Biden committed any impeachable offense &mdash; it has produced undeniably exculpatory evidence discrediting years of Republican allegations and definitively clearing the President of any wrongdoing,&rdquo; Raskin continued.<\/p>\n<p>In the GOP report, the committees stopped short of recommending that the House, which Republicans control by a narrow margin, move forward with a vote to impeach Joe Biden. Instead, they said their impeachment inquiry would continue and that the decision to move forward with a vote &ldquo;must not be made lightly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As such, this report endeavors to present the evidence gathered to date so that all Members of the House may assess the extent of President Biden&rsquo;s corruption,&rdquo; the committees wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin countered that the report highlights &ldquo;the spectacular failure of their endeavor&rdquo; and the contrast between Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who was convicted in a New York hush-money case and faces two additional criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the release of the report fulfills a goal of congressional Republicans this term, it is not likely to have as much of an impact now that Joe Biden is no longer the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 election. In the weeks following Biden&rsquo;s decision to step aside, the GOP has quietly moved away from the impeachment inquiry and fixed their attention on Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), the face of the Biden impeachment inquiry, already has a new target: Tim Walz. The chairman announced last week that the committee would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3123997\/house-oversight-opens-investigation-tim-walz-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>investigate Walz&rsquo;s ties to China<\/a> on the basis that they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/semafors-china-initiative-counts-ccp-chamber-of-commerce-executive-as-an-adviser\/\" title=\"Semafor&#039;s China Initiative Counts CCP &#039;Chamber of Commerce&#039; Executive as an Adviser\">pose national security threats<\/a> if he is elevated to the White House next year.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1732421\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1732421\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top House Democrat condemns Biden impeachment report as a &#8216;spectacular failure&#8217; The leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has criticized the impeachment report issued by House Republicans, asserting that there is substantial evidence proving President Joe Biden did nothing wrong and that Republicans aimed to exploit his connection with his son, Hunter Biden. In a 72-page rebuttal to the report, Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, accused the GOP of spending over a year investigating Joe Biden only to find minimal evidence supporting what he described as &#8220;baseless and overtly political investigations.&#8221; A group of Republican-led committees claimed to have identified over $27 million received by members of Biden&#8217;s family and their associates through international business dealings, leading them to conclude in their extensive 291-page report that Biden engaged in &#8220;impeachable conduct,&#8221; including abuse of power. However, they struggled to definitively link this money or any actions taken by him during his vice presidency. The investigation lost momentum due to pushback from moderate Republicans who doubted there was sufficient evidence for an impeachment article based on high crimes or misdemeanors. Raskin stated that Republicans had resorted to &#8220;distorting the evidence&#8221; by using selectively chosen and misleading information from bank records, transactions, and testimonies from key figures like James Biden (the president\u2019s brother) and former business partners Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis. He noted that having failed to identify any significant crime or impeachable offense against President Biden, Republicans were left making vague claims about alleged &#8220;influence-peddling&#8221; involving &#8220;the Biden family&#8221;\u2014an implicit acknowledgment of their inability to prove any wrongdoing on his part. Raskin concluded that not only did this investigation fail to demonstrate any impeachable offense committed by Joe Biden but it also produced clear exculpatory evidence undermining years of Republican accusations against him. In their report, while GOP committees refrained from recommending an immediate vote for impeachment in the narrowly controlled Republican House, they indicated their inquiry would persist with caution regarding future decisions on voting for impeachment. They stated this report aims at presenting gathered evidence so all House members can evaluate President Biden&#8217;s alleged corruption levels. Raskin countered this assertion by highlighting \u201cthe spectacular failure\u201d of their efforts compared with former President Donald Trump\u2019s legal troubles stemming from various criminal cases against him. Although releasing this report fulfills a goal for congressional Republicans during this term, its impact may be diminished now that Joe Biden is no longer seen as the likely Democratic nominee for 2024; following his decision not to run again, GOP focus has shifted towards Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign instead. Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who has been prominent in pursuing the impeachment inquiry against Biden now targets Tim Walz instead\u2014announcing last week an investigation into Walz\u2019s connections with China due concerns about potential national security risks if he were elected president next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2326866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jamie-raskin-james-comer-secret-service.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,3636,32171,6022,32076],"class_list":["post-2326865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-impeachment","tag-political-commentary","tag-raskin","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jamie-raskin-james-comer-secret-service.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}