House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he would begin impeachment proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland if Republicans find that he has lied to Congress.
Garland is expected to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Sept. 20 and will face questions about the Justice Department’s handling of investigations into former President Donald Trump and the alleged “criminal bribery scheme” involving Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
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“If we find at the end of the day that Garland lied, I will start impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy told Jesse Watters Primetime.
Garland’s testimony will come after two IRS agent whistleblowers testify before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday regarding “conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, deviations from normal investigative procedures, and conflicting information provided by Attorney General Merrick Garland to Congress,” according to an affidavit by one of the whistleblowers, IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley.
McCarthy said House Republicans will continue to investigate alleged corruption within the Biden family and his administration, vowing, “We will not stop.”
“We are not prosecutors. We don’t get to indict, but the one thing we have to do, we have to fight for every bit of information. Everything you know today,” McCarthy noted, “is only because we won the House, and we have not stopped going after this.”
McCarthy’s comments come on the same day that Trump announced he had received a ‘target’ letter from special counsel Jack Smith regarding another grand jury investigation into Jan. 6.
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“Well, one thing we can do is to continue to put forth showing two different judicial systems in America. I mean, if you’re part of Biden Inc. family, you get treated one way. Everybody else gets treated differently,” McCarthy said in response to the news of Trump’s ‘target’ letter. “Every time President Trump goes up in the polls, they come after him. This is one of the fundamental reasons why when we took the majority, we created the weaponization committee, because we are going after this. This is wrong.”
“We want to bring justice. When you bring the truth to the American public, think of this: The FBI goes and raids Mar-a-Lago. But what do they do to Hunter Biden? They let the statute of limitations run out,” the speaker added. “Time and again, we’ve shown the American public, if you are Biden Inc. family, you are treated different than the rest of America. That will not stand. We will take this every direction we can.”