Byron Donalds pushes House to hold impeachment vote against Biden

Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds on Tuesday pushed for the House of Representatives to hold a vote on whether to impeach President Joe Biden, after a congressional report detailed allegations of corruption.

The House Judiciary, Oversight, and Ways and Means committees released a damning joint report on Monday that claimed the president engaged in impeachable conduct when he was vice president, helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars by trading on his name, and then allegedly lying to voters to cover it up.

Donalds claimed that if former President Donald Trump could get impeached by Democrats that ran the House over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, then Biden can be impeached for his alleged offenses.

"I'm on the Oversight Committee, I've seen all of the evidence up close and personal. It is without a doubt that he used his office when he was vice president to enrich his family as pay-for-play," Donalds told Fox News. "That's public corruption ... If a phone call is quote-unquote an impeachable offense, then public corruption absolutely is. I think the House should hold that vote."

Donalds acknowledged the hesitancy from some of his fellow lawmakers to impeach the president during an election year, but said it was crucial that the House holds Biden accountable.

"We have a responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. That is the job of Congress," Donalds said. "I think one of the reasons why a lot of people are losing faith in our institutions is because it appears that people at the top of our politics just get away with everything and are never held accountable. And that's wrong."

The report cited "overwhelming evidence" that Biden and his family received "tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests" in the past decade, by leading them to believe "such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden."

House Speaker Mike Johnson has not called for an impeachment vote so far, but praised the joint investigation on Monday as "thorough, diligent and thoughtful." The House is currently on its August recess, but will return Sept. 9.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.