Unless you’ve been living under a rock without access to basic cable, you likely know that Fox News mainly operates as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party. Over the last several years, that’s meant a significant amount of the network’s programming has involved painting Joe Biden as a cognitively impaired criminal who is deliberately destroying the country and is either “a puppet or he’s being blackmailed.” So the fact that not one, but two of the network’s hosts have declared in the last three days that the Republican Party has zero evidence to impeach the president is pretty, pretty, pretty embarrassing for the GOP.
On Monday, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy told viewers that despite months of probing, “Republicans at this point…they have not connected the dots” between Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes and Joe Biden. “They’ve connected the dots, the Department of Justice did on Hunter, but they have not shown where Joe Biden did anything illegally.”
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Doocy’s remarks came just days after his son, White House reporter Peter Doocy, called bullshit on Republicans’ attempts to tie Joe Biden to his son, whose overseas activities have been an obsession of the right since Donald Trump tried to extort Ukraine into digging up dirt on the family. “The House Oversight Committee has been at this for years, and they have so far not been able to provide any concrete evidence that Joe Biden personally profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business,” Doocy the younger said.
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Despite pushback from Doocy & Son, Republicans appear to be full steam ahead with authorizing a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. Politico reported on Monday that a whip count “shows that a single Republican, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), opposes a vote scheduled for this week to formalize the impeachment inquiry,” with other lawmakers, previously thought to be on the fence, “now either supportive or likely to support it, according to the tally, including a majority of Republicans who represent districts Biden carried in 2020.” Speaking to reporters last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expected unanimous support from House Republicans despite the lack of evidence against the president. “This vote is not a vote to impeach President Biden,” Johnson said. “This is a vote to continue the inquiry of impeachment, and that’s a necessary constitutional step. I believe we’ll get every vote that we have.”
Last month, The Washington Post reported that Johnson effectively admitted, during a closed-door meeting with GOP lawmakers, that the impeachment push against Biden is entirely political and not actually based on evidence that the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Later, Republican representative Troy Nehls told USA Today that attempting to impeach Joe Biden is merely about giving Donald Trump “a little bit of ammo to fire back” should the two men meet again in the general election.
In a podcast interview released last week one day after he was indicted, Hunter Biden said, of his father’s critics in the GOP: “In their most base way, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way.”
