White House Encourages House GOP To 바카라�Move On바카라� From Biden Impeachment Effort

President Joe Biden바카라�s top White House lawyer is encouraging House Speaker Mike Johnson to end his chamber바카라�s efforts to impeach the president over unproven claims that Biden benefited from the business dealings of his son and brother.

White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a Friday letter to Johnson that testimony and records turned over to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees have failed to establish any wrongdoing and that even Republican witnesses have poured cold water on the impeachment effort.

It comes a month after federal prosecutors charged an ex-FBI informant who was the source of some of the most explosive allegations with lying about the Bidens and undisclosed Russian intelligence contacts.

바카라�It is obviously time to move on, Mr. Speaker,바카라� Siskel wrote. 바카라�This impeachment is over. There is too much important work to be done for the American people to continue wasting time on this charade.바카라�

The rare communique from the White House counsel바카라�s office comes as Republicans, their House majority shrinking ever further with early departures, have come to a near-standstill in their Biden impeachment inquiry.

Johnson has acknowledged that it바카라�s unclear if the Biden probe will disclose impeachable offences and that 바카라�people have gotten frustrated바카라� that it has dragged on this long.

But he insisted as he opened a House Republican retreat late Wednesday in West Virginia that the 바카라�slow and deliberate바카라� process is by design as investigators do the work.

바카라�Does it reach the 바카라�treason, high crimes and misdemeanour바카라� standard?바카라� Johnson said, referring to the Constitution바카라�s high bar for impeachment. 바카라�Everyone will have to make that evaluation when we pull all the evidence together.바카라�

Without the support from their narrow ranks to impeach Biden, the Republican leaders are increasingly eyeing criminal referrals to the Justice Department of those they say may have committed potential crimes for prosecution. It is unclear to whom they are referring.

Still, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is marching ahead with a planned hearing next week despite Hunter Biden바카라�s decision not to appear. Instead, the panel will hear public testimony from several former business partners of the president바카라�s son.

Comer has also been looking at legislation that would toughen the ethics laws around elected officials.

Without providing evidence or details, Johnson said the probe so far has unearthed 바카라�a lot of things that we believe violated the law.바카라�

While sending criminal referrals would likely be a mostly symbolic act, it could open the door to prosecutions of the Bidens in a future administration, particularly as former President Donald Trump has vowed to take revenge on his political detractors.