With Joe Biden out as Democrats’ candidate for president, the House of Representatives’ report on the impeachment inquiry released this morning may give off a “What difference, at this point, does it make?” vibe.
After all, even if the House votes to impeach the president, the Senate won’t convict him and he’ll be out of office and politics forever in January 2024. The nearly 300-page report nonetheless matters for many reasons, the most important of which is to restore America’s standing in the world.
Over more than 150 pages, the House’s impeachment report establishes that Joe Biden conspired with his family members and their business partners to monetize his position as vice president. In exchange for access to then-Vice President Biden, foreign individuals and entities gave various Biden family members and their friends more than $27 million—some of those proceeds passed directly on to the Big Guy.
Those generalities fail to adequately capture the audacity of the conspiracy, or the harm to our country caused by Biden announcing through his conduct that the United States of America can be bought. Four specific payoffs crystallize both.
Large Foreign Payments While Obama’s Vice President
First, as the House report details, in early 2014, while Barack Obama’s vice president Biden attended a birthday party for Hunter Biden with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina. Baturina is the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. The United States had accused him of heading a “pyramid of corruption” involving the Kremlin. Ten days later, Baturina transferred $3.5 million
