President says he is ‘focused on the things the American people want me focused on’ in first remarks on Republican initiative
As House Republicans kick off an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, the White House is executing a long-planned strategy to meet politics with politics, according to a New York Times report.
The Biden team’s goal is to discredit the inquiry and convince Americans that it is nothing more than base partisanship driven by a radical opposition, the report says.
For the Biden team, the mission now is to discredit the impeachment inquiry among independent voters and wayward Democrats before it reaches a crescendo. It is a strategy employed in the past by other presidents targeted for impeachment, Bill Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
The Republicans so far have helped Mr. Biden’s effort, often speaking about the investigations into the president’s family in starkly political terms.
To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes. The American people deserve to be heard on this matter through their elected representatives.
That’s why, if we move forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person.
You know what’s interesting to me, you’re a reporter for CNN, right? I just laid out to you a lot of allegations based upon the American public.
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2023-09-14 08:42:21
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