The media continues to float its impeachment inquiry “without evidence” narrative —but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shut it down during an exchange with the press on the Hill on Thursday.
The clip went viral Thursday evening.
From Fox News:
In the clip, AP reporter Farnoush Amiri asked McCarthy about fellow Republicans who have said that the investigation into President Biden has yet to show an impeachable offense at this point.
“Is that an assessment you share?” Amiri asked.
“You know, an impeachment inquiry is not an impeachment,” McCarthy responded, “What an impeachment inquiry is to do is to get answers to questions. Are you concerned about all the stuff that was recently learned?”
McCarthy then went through a list of instances that many have characterized as possible evidence of wrongdoing from the president.
“Do you believe the president lied to the American public when he said he’d never talked to his son about his business dealings?” McCarthy asked “Yes or no?”
“I can’t answer that,” Amiri replied.
“Do you believe when they said the president went on conference calls? Do you believe that happened?” McCarthy asked.
“That’s what the testimony says,” Amiri answered.
“Do you believe the president went to Cafe Milano and had dinner with the clients of Hunter Biden, who believes he got those clients because he was selling the brand?”
“That’s what the testimony said,” Amiri answered.
“Do you believe Hunter Biden, when you saw the video of him driving the Porsche, that he got $143,000 to buy that Porsche the next day? Do you believe that $3 million from the Russian oligarch that was transferred to the shell companies that the Biden’s controlled after the dinner from Cafe Milano took place?” McCarthy asked.
McCarthy then asked Amiri again if she believed the president lied, to which she responded, “But is lying an impeachable offense?”
“All I’m saying is I would like to know the answer to these questions,” McCarthy said. “The American public would like to know.”
Watch the exchange above.
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