The Republican-controlled House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees launched their first open impeachment hearing against Joe Biden Thursday morning, weeks after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy allowed the chairmen of those committees to open the inquiry without a floor vote.

The Republicans aim to prove a that Joe Biden was an active participant in his son Hunter Biden’s corrupt overseas business dealings.

Democrats argue that the GOP push to impeach Biden is baseless and that Republicans have failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing.

In reality, Republican investigators have produced a mountain of evidence in the form of bank records, suspicious activity reports, wire transfers, text messages, whatsApp messages, emails, voicemails, photos, along with the testimonies of whistleblowers, and Hunter Biden’s former business partners, not to mention Joe Biden’s admission on tape that he got the Ukrainian prosecutor general fired by withholding $1 billion in US loan guarantees in exchange for his ouster.

Witnesses testifying Thursday include Eileen O’Connor, former assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, and Jonathan Turley, a law professor who testified in support of former President Donald Trump during his impeachment inquiry in 2019.

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In his opening statement, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) listed at least ten times Joe Biden lied to the American people about his involvement in his family’s influence-peddling operations.

“At least ten times, Joe Biden lied to the American people that he never spoke to his family about their business dealings,” Comer said. “He lied by telling the American people that there was an ‘absolute wall’ between his official government duties and his personal life. Let’s be clear: there was no wall. The door was wide open to those who purchased what a business associate described as “The Biden Brand.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in his opening statement slammed Republicans for launching an impeachment inquiry without a full House vote, and said they sit “empty handed.”

Republicans pointed out that in 2019 Rep. Raskin didn’t think a House vote was needed to launch an impeachment inquiry.

“There is no formal constitutional or statutory or even the House rule for how an impeachment inquiry is to begin, and so it means different things to different people,” Raskin argued in 2019.