Earlier today, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that Republicans will move forward with an official impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, despite the embarrassing fact that, as House Freedom Caucus member Ken Buck told MSNBC on Sunday, they haven’t uncovered a single piece of evidence “linking President Biden to a high crime or misdemeanor.” Also deeply embarrassing? The tantrum Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is now having over not getting the credit she thinks she deserves for calling to impeach Biden first.
Greene—who commemorated 9/11 one day earlier by calling the president’s policies “traitorous” and suggesting states should secede—was apparently triggered by a post from Congressman Matt Gaetz, who wrote, “When @SpeakerMcCarthy makes his announcement in moments, remember that as I pushed him for weeks, [Fox News host Brian Kilmeade] said I was: ‘Speaking into the wind’ on impeachment. Turns out, the wind may be listening!”
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That didn’t sit right with Greene, who has been absurdly calling for Biden’s impeachment since he took office in 2021—and she needed to make sure everyone knew that. Taking to the platform formerly known as Twitter, she responded: “Correction my friend. I introduced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for his corrupt business dealings in Ukraine & China while he was Vice President on his very first day in office. You wouldn’t cosponsor those and I had to drag you kicking and screaming to get you to cosponsor my articles on the border. Who’s really been making the push?”
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Earlier in the day, Greene claimed that “launching an Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden isn’t a tall order” and that the GOP Oversight Committee has supposedly “uncovered mountains of evidence of crimes and corruption committed by the Biden family.” (To date, the committee has not shared said evidence with the public, which may be because, in the words of Greene’s colleague Buck, it “doesn’t exist right now.”) Shortly before McCarthy’s announcement, Ian Sams, the White House spokesman for oversight and investigations, wrote on X: “McCarthy is being told by Marjorie Taylor Greene to do impeachment, or else she’ll shut down the government. Opening impeachment despite zero evidence of wrongdoing by POTUS is simply red meat for the extreme rightwing so they can keep baselessly attacking him. They admit it.”
In other impeachment news, Politico reports that, unsurprisingly, Donald Trump is working behind the scenes with Republicans to impeach his likely 2024 competition. According to the outlet, the ex-president “has been speaking weekly with House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik, who was the first member of Republican leadership to come out in support of impeachment,” and the two reportedly chatted shortly after McCarthy announced the inquiry today. The former guy also had dinner with Greene on Sunday night at his Bedminster golf club, where “the topic of impeachment was discussed,” per the outlet. Last month on Truth Social, in a post all but admitting the impeachment push was solely about retribution, Trump wrote: “Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION. THEY DID IT TO US.”
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