Speaker Mike Johnson Admits Republicans Don’t Have the Evidence to Impeach Biden

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Despite having repeatedly tolerated—and personally flirted with—rhetoric from his fellow Republicans to the contrary, Speaker Mike Johnson told his caucus in a closed-door session that there is insufficient evidence to proceed with formal impeachment proceedings against President Biden.

The substance of Johnson’s words will not be surprising to any honest person paying attention. Each attempt by those leading the effort against the President to offer a “smoking gun” or “bombshell” to the public has ended in utter failure.

Moreover, the first (and currently only) impeachment inquiry hearing was widely panned as a disaster, with many GOP aides and staffers anonymously complaining to the press that it was a misfire of epic proportions.

All three of the Republican witnesses admitted they had no evidence the President committed an impeachable offense. One, the conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, bluntly said that the burden of proof for such a claim had not been met by Republicans.

Despite this, high profile Republican inquisitors like James Comer of the House Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee, Nancy Mace, and others have each and all made blunt accusations that the President was guilty of bribery, corruption, influence peddling, money laundering, and a whole host of salacious misdeeds.

Each time, they’ve failed to corroborate—consistently frustrating even right wing Fox News hosts like Maria Bartiromo, Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocey, and others.

Still, Johnson’s reported remarks are surprising only in that it seemed impossible that any Republican seeking to be—and remain—Speaker of the House would admit such a thing, even in private.

Now that Johnson’s words are publicly circulating, only time will tell if he will suffer political consequences from his own supporters for a fleeting moment of private candor.