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Secretary of State Antony Blinken could be held in contempt of Congress

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Important Takeaways:

  • The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a contempt resolution against the top Biden administration Cabinet secretary, setting it up for a House-wide vote after Congress returns from a six-week recess.
  • A secretary of state has never in history been held in contempt.
  • If the House votes to hold Blinken in contempt, he would be automatically referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges.
  • House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has accused Blinken of stonewalling his committee’s probe into President Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
  • It comes after McCaul’s committee released an explosive report detailing Biden administration shortfalls that led to the hasty military withdrawal from Kabul following a lightning-fast takeover of the country by the Taliban.
  • The Republican-led paper opens by hearkening back to President Biden’s urgency to withdraw from the Vietnam War as a senator in the 1970s. That, along with the Afghanistan withdrawal, demonstrates a “pattern of callous foreign policy positions and readiness to abandon strategic partners,” according to the report.
  • The report also disputed Biden’s assertion that his hands were tied to the Doha agreement former President Trump had made with the Taliban establishing a deadline for U.S. withdrawal for the summer of 2021, and it revealed how state officials had no plan for getting Americans and allies out while there were still troops there to protect them.

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Hunter Biden could be held in Contempt of Congress for not showing up for Subpoena

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Important Takeaways:

  • Hunter Biden’s failure to appear before House investigators will likely be a factor in formalizing the House impeachment inquiry vote Wednesday evening regarding President Joe Biden’s involvement in the Biden family business.
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to six cases of mounting evidence on Tuesday against Joe Biden that “cannot be ignored”:
    • Biden family members and Biden business-linked entities received more than $15 million from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China.
    • Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden’s business associates at least 22 times.
    • Joe Biden lied about his involvement in the business.
    • Joe Biden received “direct monthly payments” from Hunter Biden’s “Owasco PC” business account, which received “payments from Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies.”
    • Investigators flagged the Justice Department’s “deviations” in the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden.
    • An FBI FD-1023 form alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while vice president.
  • House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) previously threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he did not comply with both a public and private interview
  • If prosecuted and convicted for contempt of Congress, the punishment is up to a $100,000 fine and imprisonment.

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