GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said Thursday he doesn’t believe impeaching President Joe Biden is likely given House Republicans’ slim majority, but he and other conservative members will continue to push claims of Biden’s wrongdoing to force Biden to “explain this to the people that he wants to vote for him.”
Perry told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland on Thursday he doesn’t think House Republicans will have enough votes to impeach Biden but plans to continue to “bring this information out” to influence public opinion ahead of November’s election.
“I don’t think we are going to get to a point quite honestly where we are going to be able to impeach him, especially with the thin margin that we have,” Perry said. “But we’re going to continue right up until the end of the term to bring this information out and to inform the American people that if Joe Biden wants to run for office again, have him explain this to the people that he wants to vote for him.”
Perry’s comments come after the Justice Department charged a former FBI informant with lying about Biden and his son Hunter’s involvement in business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company, allegations that Republicans used as the primary basis for an impeachment inquiry against Biden.
House Oversight Committee Republicans have deleted reference to the indicted ex-FBI informant from their summary of their impeachment inquiry on their website, the latest example of how Republicans are trying to downplay the significance of the former informant whose claims they once championed.
Perry stood by the evidence Republicans have previously pointed to as grounds for impeaching Biden, and blamed federal agencies for restricting access to information he says could verify their…
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