Republicans will invite Joe Biden to testify in his impeachment investigation

WASHINGTON – House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., announced he'll invite President Joe Biden to testify to investigators as part of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president.

“In the coming days, I will invite President Joe Biden to the House Oversight Committee to provide his own testimony and explain why his family received tens of millions of dollars from foreign companies with his assistance,” Comer alleged in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The announcement comes after the Oversight Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday with Biden family business associates. GOP lawmakers levied accusations of corruption against the president’s relatives.

The hearing ultimately did not break new ground as Republicans continue to accuse the president of improperly benefitting from his family’s financial dealings – but have not produced evidence directly implicating him.

The president’s son, Hunter Biden and his business associate, Devon Archer, who have both vehemently denied the GOP’s allegations, skipped out on the hearing despite Republicans extending an invitation. The hearing was left with three witnesses, and Democratic lawmakers challenged the GOP speakers' credibility over and over again in the heated back and forth.

"Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong. He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of records he’s received have refuted his false allegations," Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, said in a post on X. "Call it a day, pal."

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Joe Biden almost certainly will not accept Comer’s invitation. The prospects of moving forward with impeaching the president have also diminished in recent weeks, as several House Republicans have questioned whether investigators have found sufficient evidence to impeach Joe Biden for high crimes or misdemeanors. That's the bar the Constitution sets for the process of removing the president from office.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Republicans will call on Joe Biden to testify in impeachment inquiry