周四，众议院共和党人将举行对总统弹劾调查的首次公开听证会乔·拜登.
众议院监督委员会的听证会将于美国东部时间上午10点开始，将有四名证人，其中三名由共和党人召集。
主席詹姆斯·卡莫，R-Ky。他说，重点将是展示共和党领导的几个月调查的结果，总体目标是解释为什么需要进行调查。
他声称，众议院共和党人已经“发现了大量证据，显示乔·拜登总统滥用公职为其家族谋取经济利益。”
但到目前为止，共和党人还没有拿出直接证据来支持他们的说法，即拜登参与了其家族的海外商业交易或从中获利，或者他在担任副总统时不当影响了基于这些交易的政策。
卡莫在一份声明中说:“美国人要求并应该得到答案、透明度和对这种滥用公职行为的问责。”。“本周，众议院监督委员会将提交迄今为止发现的证据，并听取法律和金融专家关于拜登夫妇可能犯下的罪行，因为他们以美国利益为代价带来了数百万美元。”
詹姆斯·卡莫主席于2023年9月13日抵达雷本大楼，参加众议院监督和问责委员会题为“不合适的诉讼:对第三方诉讼资金的监督”的听证会。
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三名共和党证人分别是法医会计师布鲁斯·杜宾斯基;Eileen O'Connor，美国司法部税务司前助理司法部长;乔治·华盛顿大学法学教授、福克斯新闻频道撰稿人乔纳森·特利。
民主党人已经传唤北卡罗来纳大学的宪法教授迈克尔·格哈特作证。格哈特曾担任前总统唐纳德·特朗普第二次弹劾审判主持人的特别顾问。
卡莫承诺将很快传唤亨特·拜登和总统的儿子和弟弟詹姆斯·拜登的银行记录和其他文件。卡莫和其他共和党高层表示，他们认为银行文件可能是此案的确凿证据。
在听证会之前，卡莫周二晚上宣布，该小组已经获得了银行记录，他说这些记录显示亨特·拜登收到了来自中国的资金，这些资金将拜登总统在特拉华州威尔明顿的家列为受益人地址。
根据该委员会的数据，亨特·拜登在2019年收到了两笔总计26万美元的汇款。委员会在公告中没有公布银行电汇记录。
一直都是据报告的亨特·拜登经常使用他父亲的地址，之前住在威尔明顿的家里。
“想象一下，他们认为，如果有人在疫情期间住在他们父母的房子里，将它列为他们的永久工作地址，并获得薪水，父母在某种程度上也为雇主工作，”白宫发言人伊恩·萨姆斯在X上写道是香蕉。然而，这就是极端众议院共和党人已经沉没。"
亨特·拜登的律师阿贝·洛威尔(Abbe Lowell)表示，新的指控“在事实出现的那一刻就消失在空气中”
洛厄尔在一份声明中说:“这是一笔有记录的贷款(不是分配或支付)，由一个私人电汇到他的新银行账户，该账户列出了他的驾照上的地址，他父母的地址，因为这是他当时唯一的永久地址。”
白宫坚称拜登没有做错任何事，并在此前批评即将于周四举行的听证会是一场“政治噱头”。
萨姆斯上周表示:“极端众议院共和党人分子已经在展示他们的计划，试图转移人们对他们混乱无能的治理及其对国家的影响的注意力。”。
国会民主党人也批评共和党人发起调查，理由是明显缺乏证据和调查的时机，因为众议院共和党强硬派正在推动政府最早于周日关闭。
“很难理解这个时刻的完全混乱，”马里兰州民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金说，他是众议院监督委员会的资深成员。“在他们准备关闭美国政府的三天前，共和党人对拜登总统发起了毫无根据的弹劾运动。没有人能弄清楚这两种行动的逻辑。”
“令人惊讶的是，大量共和党成员现在承认，卡莫主席的调查未能出示拜登总统有不当行为的证据，”卡莫继续说。“共和党人可以看到，卡莫主席的整个虚假弹劾运动是基于特朗普和鲁迪·朱利安尼编造和兜售的谎言，这个谎言已被多个可信来源多次揭穿。”
在共和党强硬派的压力下，众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡于9月12日正式启动了弹劾调查。麦卡锡没有像他承诺的那样进行全院投票就单方面这样做了——在他显然没有获得足够的支持之后。
麦卡锡将调查框定为一项事实调查任务，也是共和党对拜登家族调查的“合乎逻辑的下一步”，要求众议院监督、司法和筹款委员会牵头。
麦卡锡指责拜登在他对其家族商业事务的了解上撒谎，并声称记录显示拜登的家庭成员和他们的一些商业伙伴从外国公司赚了2000万美元。迄今为止，没有证据表明拜登总统收到了任何这笔钱。
麦卡锡本月早些时候说:“这些指控合在一起，描绘了一幅腐败文化的画面。”。
虽然麦卡锡一再拒绝详细说明弹劾调查的时间表，但预计会有更多的弹劾听证会，尽管没有宣布。
House Republicans to hold 1st Biden impeachment inquiry hearing
House Republicans on Thursday will hold the first public hearing in their impeachment inquiry into PresidentJoe Biden.
The hearing before the House Oversight Committee will start at 10 a.m. ET and will feature four witnesses, three called by Republicans.
Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said the focus will be to present findings from months of GOP-led investigations -- with the overall goal of explaining why an inquiry is warranted.
He claims House Republicans have "uncovered an overwhelming amount of evidence showing President Joe Biden abused his public office for his family's financial gain."
But so far, Republicans haven't produced direct evidence to back up their claims that Biden was involved in or personally profited from his family's foreign business dealings, or that he improperly influenced policy based on them when he served as vice president.
"Americans demand and deserve answers, transparency, and accountability for this abuse of public office," Comer said in a statement. "This week, the House Oversight Committee will present evidence uncovered to date and hear from legal and financial experts about crimes the Bidens may have committed as they brought in millions at the expense of U.S. interests."
The three Republican witnesses are Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant; Eileen O'Connor, a former Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Tax Division; and Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University and a Fox News contributor.
Democrats have called Michael Gerhardt, a constitutional law professor at the University of North Carolina, to testify. Gerhardt served as special counsel to the presiding officer of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
Comer has pledged to soon subpoena bank records and other documents for Hunter Biden and James Biden -- the president's son and brother. Comer and other top Republicans have said they believe the bank documents could be a smoking gun in the case.
Ahead of the hearing, Comer announced Tuesday night the panel had obtained bank records that he said show Hunter Biden received money from Chinese nationals, originating in Beijing, that listed President Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, as the beneficiary address.
According to the committee, Hunter Biden received two wires in 2019 totaling $260,000. The committee did not release the bank wire records in their announcement.
It has beenreportedthat Hunter Biden often used his father's address and previously lived at the Wilmington home.
"Imagine them arguing that, if someone stayed at their parents' house during the pandemic, listed it as their permanent address for work, and got a paycheck, the parents somehow also worked for the employer," White House spokesperson Ian Sams wrote on X in response to the announcement. "It's bananas. Yet this is what extreme House Republicans have sunken to."
Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, said the new allegation "evaporates in thin air the moment facts come out."
"This was a documented loan (not a distribution or pay-out) that was wired from a private individual to his new bank account which listed the address on his driver’s license, his parents’ address, because it was his only permanent address at the time," Lowell said in a statement.
The White House has insisted that Biden has done nothing wrong, and previously criticized the impending hearing on Thursday as a "political stunt."
"Extreme House Republicans are already telegraphing their plans to try to distract from their own chaotic inability to govern and the impacts of it on the country," Sams said last week.
Congressional Democrats, too, have criticized Republicans for launching the inquiry -- citing both the apparent lack of evidence and the timing of the inquiry as House GOP hard-liners are driving the government toward a shutdown as soon as Sunday.
"It's hard to grasp the complete derangement of this moment," said Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. "Three days before they're set to shut down the United States government, Republicans launch a baseless impeachment drive against President Biden. No one can figure out the logic of either course of action."
"A surprisingly large number of Republican Members now admit that Chairman Comer's investigation has failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden," Comer continued. "Republicans can see that Chairman Comer's whole sham impeachment drive is based on a lie crafted and peddled by Trump and Rudy Giuliani that has been repeatedly debunked by multiple credible sources."
Under pressure from GOP hard-liners, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., officially opened the impeachment inquiry on Sept. 12. McCarthy did so unilaterally without a full House vote as he had promised to do -- after it became apparent he didn't have enough support.
McCarthy framed the inquiry as a fact-finding mission and a "logical next step" in Republican investigations into the Biden family, tasking the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees to take the lead.
McCarthy has accused Biden of lying about his knowledge of his family's business affairs and stated records show Biden's family members and some of their business associates made $20 million from foreign firms. There is no evidence, to date, that President Biden received any of that money.
"Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption," McCarthy said earlier this month.
Though McCarthy has repeatedly declined to detail what the timeline for the impeachment inquiry would look like, additional impeachment hearings are expected although none have been announced.
