Democrats, despite impeaching Trump twice, say announcement of Biden's impeachment inquiry is a "witch hunt"

On Tuesday, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy (R-TX), announced that he ordered the committees of the Lower House to initiate investigations against Joe Biden to carry out an impeachment arguing that the Democrat has developed a "culture of corruption" during his political life.

The Democrats did not react well to the news, although it seems contradictory. They condemned the announcement of a possible impeachment against President Biden calling it a "witch hunt", despite the fact that the Democratic Party itself carried out two trials to remove former President Donald Trump.

"I think the impeachment inquiry is absurd. The American people want us to do something that will make their lives better, not go off on these chases, witch hunts," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

The phrase draws attention, especially since former President Trump has used the term "witch hunt" constantly to criticize the political and criminal proceedings against him by Democrats and the Department of Justice during the Biden era.

However, the impeachment processes of each president would be very different.

While Trump was impeached for false Russian collusion and for his involvement in The January 6 events, Republicans accuse Biden of allegedly participating in his son's, Hunter Biden, business, receiving bribes from foreign citizens in exchange for political favors.

However, despite the fact that House Republicans have shown the public several indications that Joe Biden may have participated in Hunter's business dealings, they have yet to present hard evidence of wrongdoing.

So far, the most serious accusation against Biden is that he allegedly accepted, in his time as vice president, a bribe from Burisma's owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, to protect him politically from a corruption investigation carried out by former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. This allegation came from a "highly credible" FBI source and was revealed by House Republicans.

Burisma was the energy company where Hunter Biden was a member of the board of directors and received a salary of more than $ 80,000 per month. Shokin was fired by the then president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko after Joe Biden pressured the government of the European country to withhold humanitarian aid if it refused to remove the former prosecutor from his position.

The Obama administration, at the time, argued that its motives for pushing for Shokin's firing were because he wasn't tough enough on corruption.

House Republicans, by contrast, point out that Shokin was removed for investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden's business associates.

Recently, Shokin himself told Fox News that he believes he was fired because the Bidens received bribes from Burisma, although he made it clear that he had no evidence.

"I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma," the former prosecutor said during an interview with host Brian Kilmeade. "[Poroshenko] understood, and so did Vice President Biden, that had I continued to oversee the Burisma investigation, we would have found the facts about the corrupt activities that they were engaging in. That included both Hunter Biden and Devon Archer and others."