House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke about the importance of voting to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
"We have no choice to fulfill our constitutional responsibility. We have to take the next step. We're not making a political decision. It's not. It's a legal decision," Johnson said in support of the House vote planned for Wednesday.
The representative highlighted that Republicans have already been hindered in their investigations into President Biden's alleged involvement in his son Hunter's businesses, so moving forward with the vote would allow the impeachment investigation to be formalized.
"[They] are hitting a stone wall because the White House is impeding that investigation," Johnson said, pointing to a lack of cooperation by not allowing witnesses to come forward and withholding thousands of pages of documents.
Johnson also stressed that unlike the Democrats' "sham impeachment" against Donald Trump, the Republicans are committed to defending the "rule of law," which is why they assured that it is not about rushing a trial against Biden but about investigating what happened to find out whether or not the president should be tried.
"There shouldn't be any such thing as a snap impeachment, a sham impeachment like the Democrats did against President Trump. This is the opposite of that (...) people are getting restless, because they want things to happen quickly. If you follow the Constitution and you do the right thing, you cannot rush it. You have to follow the facts," he said.
Johnson publishes an article on voting
In addition to Johnson's recent statements, the speaker of the House of Representatives also wrote an article about the importance of carrying out an impeachment trial against Biden.
The representative explained that all the evidence that has emerged against the president cannot be ignored and that opening a formal investigation would put the House in a "strongest legal position to gather the evidence and provide transparency" to Americans.
"The American people have a right to know whether the president − through his family − traded official acts for foreign dollars, whether the president is compromised and whether Joe Biden abused his power as president to impede or obstruct the investigation into Hunter Biden. As we have done all along, House Republicans will continue to follow the facts where they lead," he said.
The House will vote to formalize the Biden impeachment inquiry.
Read my op-ed in @USATODAY on why we’re taking this critical step.https://t.co/sJEr8ixERF
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) December 12, 2023
