Republicans Are Already Expecting Their Biden Impeachment Push To Backfire

Republicans in the House are moving their impeachment inquiry into President Biden forward this week, with a vote expected that would make the inquiry "official," allowing members to get their hands on more "evidence." The only problem is that they've been investigating Biden for 12 months and have been told repeatedly that there is no link between Biden and any criminal activity. To make things worse, Republicans are now telling the press that they expect this move to backfire on them, but they are still going forward anyway. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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The impeachment inquiry into President Biden and his, you know, at least in the Republican world, his horribly vast criminal empire is actually picking up steam this week with Republicans voting to not necessarily expand the impeachment inquiry, but to just formalize the impeachment inquiry. And I know what you're thinking. You're like, but they've already had the impeachment inquiry. Yes, they have in committee, but that wasn't a fully voted on real impeachment inquiry. Right? It was just the inquiry into the inquiry. So this week they're voting on basically formalizing it and saying, yes, we are moving forward with the inquiry. And by doing so, it gives them a lot more tools, right? They can, you know, call, call more witnesses. They can issue subpoenas. They can do all this crazy, fun legal stuff to really get to the bottom of this vast Biden criminal empire if only such a thing actually existed for them.

Because at the same time that Republicans are formalizing their impeachment inquiry, they're also telling reporters anonymously, of course, right? Nobody wants to go on the record saying this stuff. But according to M-S-N-B-C, legal analyst, Scott La Meyer, multiple republicans in Congress have told him, this is gonna backfire on us. Like, this isn't a smart decision. We're all going along with it, right? I mean, nobody wants to rock the boat a little bit and maybe say, Hey, we look like a bunch of fools. No, no. But they'll trash it behind closed doors. They'll trash it anonymously, which is of course what they're doing, but they're admitting that it's going to backfire. Now, that admission comes with several implications, to be honest with you. The first is that these Republicans do understand what has historically happened with impeachments in the House of Representatives, at least, you know, for our lifetimes.

'cause we've had three, right? We had Bill Clinton's impeachment in the late nineties, then we had the first Trump impeachment in, uh, uh, uh, uh, 2019. Then we had the second one at the end of 2021 at the end of his term. But with both the Bill Clinton impeachment and the first Trump impeachment. By the way, what happened in both of those instances is that after the impeachment passed the house, but failed in the Senate, in the trial, the approval ratings of both of those people, yes, Donald Trump too went up. So we're looking at a President Biden, who's got, I think, what a 37% approval rating. Republicans are gonna impeach him by April, they're saying, and then his approval rating's gonna go up. 'cause you're not gonna convict him in the Senate. So that's one way it backfires. The second way it

Backfires on Republicans, and what the implication of them saying it'll backfire means is that they know they've got no evidence. They know they have nothing on this man. They have been investigating him now for 12 months. Started in January, now we're in December. So we're talking, you've got 12 months under your belt, and every, every, every witness you have pulled in has said No, actually, president Biden wasn't involved.