Joe Biden Faces 'Clear' Evidence He Lied in Impeachment Probe—Attorney

According to legal analyst and attorney Jonathan Turley, President Joe Biden faces "clear" evidence he lied amid his impeachment inquiry.

In December, the House of Representatives voted to launch an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden in a 221-212 vote, with members voting along party lines. Republicans allege that while serving as vice president under President Barack Obama, Biden used his influence to improperly support the business activities of his son, from which they suggest he gained financially. The president has said he had no involvement with Hunter's business dealings

Republican Rep. James Comer proposed in a letter Thursday that Biden appear on April 16 to testify before the committee. Comer cited testimony at last week's public hearing from former business associates of Hunter Biden — Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis — in which Comer said their testimony contradicted statements the president has made about his involvement in his son's business dealings.

"In light of the yawning gap between your public statements and the evidence assembled by the Committee, as well as the White House's obstruction, it is in the best interest of the American people for you to answer questions from Members of Congress directly, and I hereby invite you to do so," said Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee.

Bobulinski and Galanis testified during a hearing last week that the president participated in schemes to help Hunter Biden's businesses. The White House has denied their testimonies.

On Friday, Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, wrote on his website that the letter from Comer is "clear" Biden lied during his campaign and presidency regarding his son's business dealings.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Saturday morning for comment. The White House has previously described the GOP's impeachment effort as "sad, pathetic and a waste of everyone's time.

"It is now clear that the President lied during his campaign and during his presidency on his lack of knowledge of his son's business activities as well as his denial of any money gained from China...Now, the Committee has laid out the considerable evidence showing that the President had lied, knowingly and repeatedly," Turley wrote.

In response to Comer's letter, the White House pointed to a post on X, formerly Twitter, on March 20 by spokesman Ian Sams after the Kentucky Republican made the announcement that he planned to invite Biden to testify.

"Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong," Sams said in the post. "He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of records he's received have refuted his false allegations. This is a sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment. Call it a day, pal."

Meanwhile, Turley, noted the White House's response, criticizing it as "disrespectful" and "taunting," adding that it shows there is no "interest in the answers."

"The involvement of a member of the White House Counsel's staff issuing such a disrespectful and taunting message would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Yet, the media has enabled such denial and deflection by showing no interest in the answers to any of these questions," Turley wrote.

Polls show that fewer Americans say the president was involved in his son's business dealings. A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey in March found that 56 percent said that Biden "helped and participated in Hunter Biden's business," a 3 percent decrease from February's survey.

The downtick was seen among all voters, with the greatest change being with Republicans. Between the February and March polls, 5 percent of GOP voters switched to the position that Biden did not participate in his son's business dealings. In the March survey, 23 percent of Republicans agreed with that sentiment, compared with 63 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of Independents.