With all of the recent talk about an impeachment inquiry headed for President Joe Biden, it seems the commander-in-chief, between naps and ice cream cones has worked with his administration to assemble a war room made up of lawyers, legislative aides, and communication staffers, designed to help him fight off efforts by Republican lawmakers to hold him accountable for being involved in an alleged influence peddling scheme with his son, Hunter Biden.
Biden has a whole lot of reasons to be nervous. This investigation into his family, headed up by Kentucky Sen. James Comer, a Republican, has amassed a large amount of evidence that indicates the president was directly involved in helping Hunter Biden make a pretty penny by selling access to him and his influence while he served as vice president.
A report from NBC News released on Friday said the president has been putting this team of two dozen lawyers together now for months.
NBC stated that aides and allies of Biden’s are now preparing to launch their own counterattack against the inquiry, referring to it as a sham with no evidence. Yeah, I wouldn’t say there’s no evidence. Quite the opposite actually.
“Comparing this to past impeachments isn’t apples to apples or even apples to oranges; it’s apples to elephants,” a White House aide said during an interview with NBC News. “Never in modern history has an impeachment been based on no evidence whatsoever.”
Aides working at the White House spent their time during the congressional recess in August doing a bunch of research into Republican Party statements, crafting a message and a response team, according to NBC’s report.
Newsmax reported, “House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested Sunday that an impeachment inquiry of Biden was becoming more likely, calling it ‘a natural step forward’ as Congress soon ends its summer break and House Republicans seek to expand their investigative powers.”
“If you look at all the information we have been able to gather so far, it is a natural step forward that you would have to go to an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said in a conversation with Fox News Channel. “That provides Congress the apex of legal power to get all the information they need.”
The president’s new hot shot team of attorneys has been combing through the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton to take notes on how they might put together an effective defense against the inquiry Republicans are trying to launch.
So who is on the team? Well, I’m not going to list everyone because that would take forever, however Defense attorney Richard Sauber and Russ Anello, who once served as the House Oversight Committee staff director, are some of the more well known members.
“Communications operative and presidential campaign veteran Ian Sams and the pro-Biden group Building Back Together’s former communications director Sharon Yang will be the team’s ‘public face,’ NBC News reported. Incoming White House counsel Ed Siskel, who worked in the Obama-era White House counsel’s office, soon will be added,” Newsmax concluded.
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