Things are getting desperate for House Republicans as they are now trying to investigate Biden for things like the origins of COVID.
Politico reported:
Their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is failing. And now, House Republicans are setting their sights on a wide range of new oversight targets, hoping that some can help them deceive the president in the midst of an election year.
The search for a new line of attack has been piecemeal, including what Republicans say is the administration’s failure to aggressively fight the Chinese Communist Party; the origins of Covid-19; the approach to liquefied natural gas exports and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and whether the administration circumvented the Senate confirmation process by naming John Podesta the new climate envoy.
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There is a problem with investigating Biden for the origins of COVID. The COVID pandemic began while Donald Trump was president.
It appears that House Republicans will attempt to rewrite history and blame President Biden for the origins of COVID when Biden was not president. For years, members of Congress like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) have claimed that there is a conspiracy to hide the origins of COVID.
Look for House Republicans to go even deeper down the COVID rabbit hole to both try to hurt Biden and take away support from anti-vaxxer/conspiracy theorist and independent presidential candidate RFK Jr.
The majority of the House no longer has time available. They thought they could impeach Biden for trumped-up crimes, and when that didn’t work, they had no backup plan, so for the next few months, look for House Republicans to throw every conspiracy to the wall and hope something happens before November elections.
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