Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has indicated he is not a fan of the idea to impeach President Joe Biden, but told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham July 26 there was no other way to obtain records and documents that are being withheld.
In an interview with Ingraham Wednesday, Rubio expressed his concern over potential impeachment proceedings against Biden by the House of Representatives, explaining that he doesn’t want the U.S. to turn into Peru, a country which has impeached its last seven presidents. (RELATED: ‘Benefit His Family’: Kevin McCarthy Says Biden Investigation Is ‘Rising To The Level Of Impeachment Inquiry’)
“That said, if you listen very carefully, what the speaker of the House has said is that impeachment proceedings, at this point, is the only process [the House] have from an evidentiary front. To be able to go out and subpoena records and get documents and get information that otherwise is not forthcoming and isn’t being provided, because [government agencies and Hunter Biden are] ignoring congressional subpoenas from the committee level. So that’s what Speaker McCarthy has said, those proceedings will be used,” Rubio told the Fox News host.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called for an impeachment inquiry into Biden July 25 following testimony from two IRS whistleblowers and a former FBI supervisory special agent that alleged Biden was aware and involved in his son’s overseas business deals.
“So now you have the president saying one thing that we’ve proven is not true, you’ve got IRS whistleblowers saying something when it comes to government treating the Biden’s different. You’ve got an informant claiming that the Biden family had been bribed, should you ignore that or you should investigate that? The only way you can investigate that is through an impeachment inquiry so the committee would have the power to get all the documents that they would need,” McCarthy said of the inquiry Tuesday.
“Congress has a responsibility for an investigation… You’ve got to get to the bottom of the truth,” he continued.