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Republicans Demand Biden Impeachment Over Bombshell FBI Doc Claiming POTUS Bribery

© AFP 2023 / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDSUS President Joe Biden (R), with his son Hunter Biden, boards Air Force One as he departs from Delaware Air National Guard base in New Castle, Delaware, on February 4, 2023
US President Joe Biden (R), with his son Hunter Biden, boards Air Force One as he departs from Delaware Air National Guard base in New Castle, Delaware, on February 4, 2023 - Sputnik International, 1920, 21.07.2023
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The POTUS and his son are investigated by the Republican-controlled House panel over allegations that they ran an illegal “pay-to-play” corruption scheme involving cash payments to Hunter Biden in exchange for access to his father while Biden was vice president.
Republicans have gone on Twitter to react to the release of an unclassified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document related to President Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in an international bribery scheme, with some GOP members calling for his impeachment.
They included Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called the 46th US president “a criminal, […] leading us into WW3.”
"Republicans can no longer delay, but we need 218 Republican votes to do it. I’ve been there since day one and so are the American people. IMPEACH BIDEN!!!" she added.
Greene was echoed by Anna Paulina Luna, who argued that Biden “needs to be impeached" because of the "evidence and testimony" that she had seen as a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating the Biden family finances. "He is compromised and his son is selling access to him," Luna tweeted.

The same tone was struck by Lauren Boebert as she wrote that it’s necessary to "Read and understand just how deep the corruption goes," and that “Biden should be thrown out of office. Impeach!"

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One with President Biden, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. - Sputnik International, 1920, 24.06.2023
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Similar messages were shared by Jim Banks, who described the Bidens as the "Most corrupt family to ever live in the White House," also urging for Joe Biden’s impeachment.
The reaction comes after Republican Senator Chuck Grassley released the FBI’s FD-1023 form on Thursday, which focused on how Biden, along with his son Hunter Biden, ostensibly "coerced" chief executive of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Nikolai Zlochevsky to pay them $5 million each in exchange for their help in getting a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the firm fired.

The document pertains to the FBI's interview with a "highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with Zlochevsky over the course of several years starting in 2015. During those gatherings, the Burisma CEO at one point reportedly said that Joe Biden’s son "was stupid”, and that “his [Zlochevsky's] dog was smarter."

Hunter sat on the board of Burisma at the time while his father served as Barack Obama’s vice president.
Grassley, for his part, stressed that he released the document so that Americans can read it “for themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats." The senator acquired the form via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers, according to the senator's office.
The FBI responded with a sharply worded statement, slamming GOP lawmakers for ignoring the bureau’s “significant concerns” about the dangers of releasing the material.
“We have repeatedly explained to Congress, in correspondence and in briefings, how critical it is to keep this source information confidential. […] Today’s release of the 1023 – at a minimum – unnecessarily risks the safety of a confidential source,” the FBI statement said.
The developments follow US Internal Revenue Service investigator Joseph Ziegler telling lawmakers he discovered Hunter Biden and his business associates received $17 million from foreign sources, including $7.3 million from Burisma, during a probe he described as hindered by senior Justice Department officials.
Ziegler had remained anonymous until his appearance at a House oversight committee hearing on Wednesday that was convened over Republican allegations that President Biden and his son Hunter were involved in a bribery scheme with Burisma.
Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter during a re-enactment of the Senate oath ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington - Sputnik International, 1920, 06.07.2023
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Hunter Biden’s attorneys and the US Justice Department announced last month an agreement under which he will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversionary agreement on a felony firearms offense in an effort to resolve the criminal probe against him and avoid prison time.
Since 2018, the First Son has been under a series of investigations into tax-related crimes, drug use, money laundering and illegal business dealings in foreign countries, including Ukraine and China. Investigators are specifically looking into the content of Hunter Biden's so-called "laptop from Hell", which purportedly included naked photos and graphic videos of the 46th president's son.
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