Speaker Mike Johnson hints at next steps in Joe Biden impeachment inquiry

Though the U.S. House of Representatives was temporarily stymied in recent weeks by the Republicans' inability to select a new speaker, now that Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has taken the gavel, he has offered new insight on where he expects the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to go next, as Sarah Arnold for Townhall explains.

It now appears that one of Johnson's top priorities in the days and weeks to come will be to continue the pursuit of information on the president's possible wrongdoing and to follow the evidence where it leads in terms of potential charges.

Impeachment prospects discussed

Speaking with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Johnson said that there is a real chance that Biden's removal from office could indeed be sought, at least based on what is already known about his involvement in family business dealings.

Suggesting his own position on Biden's culpability, Johnson stated, “We have the receipts on so much of this now,” adding that in terms of what has been discovered thus far and what could still emerge through additional investigation, “it's a real problem.”

“That's the reason that we shifted into the impeachment inquiry stage on the president himself because if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that's very likely impeachable offenses,” Johnson went on.

Evidence mounts

As outlined by Trending Politics, the accusations against the president continue to build, and they include claims that while vice president, Joe Biden participated in a substantial number of meetings with foreign executives known to have engaged in dealings with his son, Hunter Biden.

House investigators have also revealed the father-and-son duo's use of email pseudonyms as a means to communicate about how best to answer concerns about then-Vice President Biden's involvement in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor said to have been looking into corruption at the energy firm on whose board Hunter Biden sat.

Revelations about the Bidens show no sign of slowing, with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) recently coming forward with another potentially damning discovery which could add even more fuel to the impeachment fire.

“Direct payment” questioned

As Fox News notes, Comer recently went public with details of a curious -- and potentially problematic -- “direct payment” in the amount of $200,000 from James Biden to his brother Joe Biden back in 2018.

According to Comer, James Biden had received $600,000 in loans from Americore, a financially distressed rural hospital operator with which he was associated, and those advances were made based in large part on his assurances that the Biden family name would open doors with investors in the Middle East who could help ease the firm's liquidity problems.

On the very same day that James Biden was sent $200,000 of that amount, he turned right around and wrote a personal check to Joe Biden for the same amount, in what was purported to be a “loan repayment.”

In Comer's estimation, even if the check was part and parcel of a loan repayment -- though no evidence has yet been produced to support that assertion -- it remains “troubling that Joe Biden's ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family's shady financial dealings,” but whether the scenario will be part of what Johnson appears to believe may be an inevitable impeachment process, or allegations of other questionable dealings will instead take center stage, only time will tell.