Biden Impeachment Probe Unlikely to End in Removal From Office: GOP Lawmaker

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on new actions to strengthen supply chains at the Indian Treaty Room of the White House, on Nov. 27, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mt.) said Tuesday that he’s convinced the evidence in President Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry is enough for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take action—but that he’s not so sure an impeachment trial in the Senate will actually succeed in removing him from office.

Mr. Rosendale made the remarks in an interview on Fox News, in which he was asked about the status of the impeachment proceedings against President Biden.

“I do not believe that you’re probably going to be able to get an impeachment or removal of President Biden,” Mr. Rosendale said.

“But I do think that if our Department of Justice acted in a legitimate manner, that there’s enough facts that are already laid out there on the table ... that we can see that the Biden crime family has major problems, and I think the Department of Justice should be picking up a lot of this and starting to make charges and prosecutions,” he added.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Rep. Rosendale’s remarks.

The White House has dismissed the GOP-led impeachment probe into President Biden as a political stunt.

Biden Impeachment

The impeachment inquiry against President Biden focuses on his time as vice president and involves allegations that he lied about his involvement in his family’s business dealings.

House Republicans have alleged that President Biden benefited from the foreign business dealings of his family members, in particular those of his son, Hunter Biden, who had a lucrative position at Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while then-Vice President Biden was responsible for U.S. foreign policy regarding Ukraine.

Members of the Biden family, their associates, and their companies raked in more than $24 million from various sources, including business operators and companies in China, Russia, and Kazakhstan, according to records obtained by the GOP-led House Oversight Committee.

President Biden and White House spokesman Ian Sams have strenuously denied any wrongdoing on the president’s part—or any involvement in or knowledge of his family’s business dealings.

However, the Oversight Committee has released over 20 examples of evidence tying the president to his son’s business dealings.

“This was a very organized criminal enterprise by the Biden family,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight Committee, said at the beginning of November while revealing plans to issue around two dozen subpoenas to members of the president’s family.

Since then, Mr. Comer has issued subpoenas for Hunter Biden, the president’s brother, James Biden, and others as part of the impeachment probe.

President Joe Biden with son Hunter Biden arrives at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 4, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

‘Inflection Point’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in November that the Biden impeachment inquiry has his “full and unwavering support” though he called for more witnesses testimony under oath to “fill the gaps in the record” as the probe reaches an “inflection point.”

Mr. Johnson said earlier that the evidence produced thus far has shown that President Biden acted inappropriately during business dealings involving his family—and lied about his involvement in his family’s business affairs.

“There’s a lot of smoke here, and we’re going to find out very soon how big the fire is,” Mr. Johnson said.

Elsewhere, Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas), who serves on several House committees, sought to contrast the impeachment proceedings against President Biden and the ones that targeted former President Donald Trump.

“I can tell you that the Judiciary Committee is going to do something that the Democrats failed to do when they brought these charges to Trump—and that is they are actually going to bring real evidence to the table, and they are going to bring facts to the table,” she said in a recent interview on the Benny Johnson Show.

She accused Democrats of bringing forward articles of impeachment against President Trump based on “motions,” not factual allegations.

Most Think Biden Acted Unethically or Illegally

Despite repeated denials of wrongdoing by President Biden and his supporters, recent polling shows that most Americans believe that the president acted either illegally or unethically in how he handled his son’s international business dealings.

The question posed to U.S. adults by AP-NORC pollsters was the following: “When it comes to the overseas business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, do you think Joe Biden has done something illegal, or he has done something unethical but not illegal, or do you think he has not done anything wrong?”

Overall, 35 percent of responding U.S. adults said they think President Biden has done something illegal, while 33 percent said he did something unethical.

There was a partisan dimension to the results. Most Republicans (65 percent) said they believe President Biden did something illegal when it comes to his son’s business dealings, while most Democrats (58 percent) said they don’t think the president did anything wrong.