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\n House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made several unproven claims Tuesday while announcing the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Republican-led investigation will focus on \u201callegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption\u201d by Biden, related to his family\u2019s overseas business dealings, McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n There is clear evidence that Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, leveraged his famous name while pursuing lucrative foreign deals, which might be untoward but isn\u2019t illegal. And he isn\u2019t a government official \u2013 the impeachment inquiry is into his father.\n <\/p>\n

\n House Republicans have not presented any proof that Joe Biden ever profited off his son\u2019s business deals or was influenced while in office by his son\u2019s business dealings.\n <\/p>\n

\n Republicans argue that opening an inquiry will give them the authority to uncover more information, so it\u2019s possible they\u2019ll find additional facts that are not publicly known at this point. But past impeachment inquiries in recent history have typically started with more publicly available evidence.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s a breakdown of some of the claims at the heart of the impeachment inquiry that McCarthy referenced on Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Claim: Biden family and associates got $20 million through shell companies
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\n \u201cBank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies,\u201d McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First: <\/strong>This is true about Joe Biden\u2019s family and associates, but there is no public evidence to date that the president personally received any money.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n Since Republicans took control of the House in January and obtained subpoena power, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed six banks for information regarding specific Biden family business associates to investigate the money trail behind the Biden family\u2019s foreign business dealings. The committee has not yet subpoenaed bank records from Biden family members themselves.\n <\/p>\n

\n The phrase \u201cBiden family\u201d is doing a lot of work for McCarthy \u2013 because none of these records confirm any direct payments to Joe Biden or show that he was directly involved in Hunter Biden\u2019s business arrangements. Also, some of the $20 million McCarthy was referring to on Tuesday didn\u2019t go to the Biden family but went to business associates of the family as part of their business activities.\n <\/p>\n

\n What the records have shown is that during and after Joe Biden\u2019s tenure as vice president, Hunter Biden made millions of dollars through complex financial arrangements from private equity deals, legal fees, and corporate consulting in Ukraine, China, Romania and elsewhere.\n <\/p>\n

\n At times, Obama administration officials, including at the State Department, worried about potential conflict-of-interest problems, because Hunter Biden sat on the board of a prominent Ukrainian energy company, while Joe Biden oversaw US policy toward Ukraine, according to testimony from the Democratic-run impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cEven a trusted FBI informant has alleged a bribe to the Biden family,\u201d McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First: <\/strong>It\u2019s true that an informant gave a tip of this nature to the FBI in 2020, and that the bureau had viewed him as a credible informant. But the underlying allegation that the Biden family was given a bribe is totally unproven; the informant was merely reporting something he said he had been told by a Ukrainian businessman.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n The informant met with federal investigators in 2020 and provided information dating back to 2015, according to an internal FBI document made public by Republicans earlier this year over the strong objections of the FBI.\n <\/p>\n

\n The informant claimed that the CEO of Burisma \u2013 the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden was on the board \u2013 had claimed in 2016 that he made two $5 million payments to \u201cthe Bidens.\u201d The informant was \u201cnot able to provide any further opinion as the veracity\u201d of this claim, according to the FBI document.\n <\/p>\n

\n Republicans have tried to boost the credibility of this allegation by saying it was in an FBI document. But the document merely memorialized the information provided by the informant \u2013 it does not contain proof that the allegations are true. Hunter Biden\u2019s business associate Devon Archer testified to the GOP-run House Oversight Committee earlier this year that he had not been aware of any such payments to the Bidens and characterized Mykola Zlochevsky\u2019s reported claim as an example of the Ukrainian businessman embellishing his influence.\n <\/p>\n

\n The White House has said these claims had been \u201cdebunked for years.\u201d A former ally of Rudy Giuliani, who was well-connected in Ukraine, testified during Trump\u2019s impeachment that no one from Burisma had any contacts with Joe Biden or people working for him while he was vice president, according to a transcript released by House Oversight Democrats earlier this year.\n <\/p>\n

\n Claim: Biden participated in calls and dinners with son\u2019s business partners
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\n \u201cEyewitnesses have testified that the president joined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions \u2013 dinners resulted in cars and millions of dollars into his son\u2019s and his son\u2019s business partners,\u201d McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First: <\/strong>McCarthy\u2019s claim omits key context about what was \u2013 and wasn\u2019t \u2013 reportedly discussed in the calls and dinners. A Hunter Biden associate testified that even though Joe Biden was on these calls and at these dinners, he didn\u2019t discuss business. And Republicans have not presented any evidence that Joe Biden himself benefited financially from his appearances at the dinners or on the calls.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n When House Republicans launched their investigation into members of the Biden family, they said their goal was to find wrongdoing by the president. House Republicans now say they can accuse Biden of corruption without finding direct evidence that Joe Biden financially benefited from Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business dealings.\n <\/p>\n

\n The allegations mentioned by McCarthy on Tuesday come from the interview that House Oversight Committee conducted earlier this year with Hunter Biden business associate Archer. (Separately, Archer was convicted in 2022 in connection with a $60 million bond fraud scheme, which wasn\u2019t related to Hunter Biden.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Archer testified that there were \u201cmaybe 20 times\u201d when Joe Biden was placed on speakerphone during meetings with his and Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners. This puts Joe Biden closer to his son\u2019s business activities that he previously let on.\n <\/p>\n

\n However, Archer said \u201cnothing\u201d of importance was ever discussed during these calls.\n <\/p>\n

\n Archer characterized the conversations he witnessed Hunter put his father on speakerphone in front of business associates as Joe Biden asking his son, \u201cWhere are you, how\u2019s the weather, how\u2019s the fishing, how\u2019s the \u2013 whatever it may be.\u201d Archer added the conversations were \u201cnot related to commercial business, politics, that kind of stuff.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n While Archer said he was not aware of Hunter Biden ever discussing business with his father, he did state his belief that Hunter Biden was selling \u201cthe brand,\u201d through his work. House Republicans have used that phrase to suggest that Hunter Biden sold his father\u2019s \u201cbrand\u201d around the world to enrich the Biden family. And they have argued that Joe Biden\u2019s very participation in the calls and meetings itself proves that he did have involvement in his son\u2019s business.\n <\/p>\n

\n Regarding the dinners, Archer said there was a 2014 and 2015 dinner that Joe Biden attended with Hunter Biden and some of his foreign business associates at Cafe Milano in Washington, DC. While Hunter Biden\u2019s business associates including Archer, and foreign business figures such as Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev were in the room, business wasn\u2019t discussed, Archer testified, telling lawmakers, \u201cWe ate, and kind of talked about the world, I guess, and the weather, and then everybody left.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n On the allegation that these dinners with Joe Biden \u201cresulted in cars,\u201d Archer said the businessman Rakishev wired Hunter Biden the exact amount of money that Hunter used to buy a Porsche. This car has nothing to do with Joe Biden.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Treasury Department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the Biden family and other business associates that were flagged as suspicious activity by US banks,\u201d McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First: <\/strong>The existence of these suspicious activity reports don\u2019t prove wrongdoing on their own. <\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n The filing of a \u201csuspicious activity report,\u201d or SAR, does not prove wrongdoing. Such reports are not conclusive, and are akin to the bank providing a tip to investigators, out of an abundance of caution. Financial institutions file millions of SARs each year, but few lead to law enforcement inquiries.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to reports issued by House Republicans, some of these SARs show that banks flagged dozens of wire transfers involving Hunter Biden, whom the banks described as a \u201cpolitically exposed person\u201d with \u201cnegative media for possible political corruption.\u201d But none of the SARs related to Hunter Biden have shown that Joe Biden was involved in the business deals.\n <\/p>\n

\n All that being said, there was apparently a well-founded basis for the banks to scrutinize Hunter Biden\u2019s financial transactions. There is an ongoing Justice Department criminal probe into his finances. Federal prosecutors say he failed to pay taxes on time for several years, and career IRS investigators believe he committed tax evasion, according to court filings and congressional testimony. A special counsel investigation into Hunter Biden\u2019s taxes is ongoing.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBiden used his official office to coordinate with Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners about Hunter\u2019s role in Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company,\u201d McCarthy said, apparently referring to Biden\u2019s time as vice president.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First:<\/strong> There is no public evidence that Joe Biden abused his government powers to help his family.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n These allegations from House Republicans are still evolving. House Oversight Republicans are currently going back and forth with the National Archives to obtain un-redacted emails and documents between then-Vice President Biden\u2019s office and Hunter Biden\u2019s business associates. Republicans are raising concerns about Joe Biden\u2019s vice presidential office and Hunter Biden\u2019s associates coordinating on a statement responding to a press story.\n <\/p>\n

\n Additionally, since 2019, Republicans have falsely accused Joe Biden of abusing his powers to get a top Ukrainian prosecutor fired because the prosecutor\u2019s probe into Burisma supposedly threatened Hunter Biden. These claims have been repeatedly debunked.\n <\/p>\n

\n In reality, Joe Biden\u2019s actions were consistent with bipartisan US policy, which sought to remove the prosecutor because he wasn\u2019t doing enough to crack down on corruption \u2013 including at Burisma. The Obama administration, Senate Republicans, US allies, the International Monetary Fund and Ukrainian anti-corruption activists, among others, had all made clear that they were displeased with the performance of Viktor Shokin, who became Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general in 2015.\n <\/p>\n

\n Replacing Shokin would\u2019ve ramped up scrutiny of Burisma, not shut it down. It is not even clear how aggressively Shokin was investigating Zlochevsky or Burisma at the time Joe Biden pushed for Shokin\u2019s firing.\n <\/p>\n

\n During the 2020 election campaign, Senate Republicans led a probe to find evidence on whether Biden abused his position to help his family, but came up empty.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe President did lie to the American people about his own knowledge of his family\u2019s foreign business dealings,\u201d McCarthy said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Facts First:<\/strong> Joe Biden\u2019s unequivocal denials of any business-related contact with his son have been undercut over time. But so far there is no public evidence that his occasional interactions with Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners led to him getting substantively involved in his son\u2019s financial arrangements.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden has said he and Hunter Biden \u201cnever discussed\u201d business and have \u201cnever spoken\u201d about his overseas deals. The White House has recently offered some new denials and has said the president \u201cwas not in business\u201d with Hunter Biden.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe answer is not going to change,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on July 24.\u201dThe answer remains the same: The President was never in business with his son. I just don\u2019t have anything else to add.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Hunter Biden told The New Yorker magazine in 2019 that he recalled his father briefly discussing his Burisma board role with him once; Hunter Biden said, \u201cDad said, \u2018I hope you know what you are doing,\u2019 and I said, \u2018I do.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n And there is evidence that Joe Biden has at least some surface-level interactions that overlapped with his son\u2019s business activities \u2013 a handshake with his son\u2019s business partners in China and the aforementioned dinners and speakerphone conversations. Republicans have also found evidence that Hunter Biden flew with his father on Air Force Two on foreign trips where Hunter Biden met with business associates.\n <\/p>\n

\n House Republicans have used these examples to try to connect Joe Biden to his son\u2019s lucrative business activities \u2013 but so far, the only picture painted has been a son, using his father\u2019s name to help further his business. On that note, Archer testified to Congress that he agreed it\u2019s fair to say Hunter Biden was selling an \u201cillusion\u201d of access to his father.\n <\/p>\n

\n In addition to Archer\u2019s testimony that Joe Biden did not talk to his son\u2019s contacts about substantive business matters, another Hunter Biden business partner, Eric Schwerin, told Congress he wasn\u2019t aware of any involvement by Joe Biden in the overseas deals.\n <\/p>\n

\n An IRS whistleblower gave Congress a summary of text messages from 2017 where Hunter Biden allegedly used his father as leverage to pressure a Chinese company into paying him. But the whistleblower said prosecutors weren\u2019t sure if Hunter Biden was telling the truth that his father was actually in the room. Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers and Joe Biden himself have denied that he was in the room.\n <\/p>\n

\n Regardless, Joe Biden\u2019s denials seem to be falling flat with the American public, according to new CNN polls released last week. About 61% of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved in his son\u2019s business dealings in Ukraine and China while he was vice president, according to the poll.\n <\/p>\n

\n In response to McCarthy launching the impeachment inquiry, Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel\u2019s Office, said in a statement to CNN, \u201cHouse Republicans have been investigating the President for 9 months, and they\u2019ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. His own Republican members have said so. He vowed to hold a vote to open impeachment, now he flip flopped because he doesn\u2019t have support. This is extreme politics at its worst.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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