The White House on Wednesday rejected “baseless” allegations of wrongdoing in opposition to US President Joe Biden after Republican lawmakers launched an impeachment inquiry in opposition to him.

While the 80-year-old Democrat remained silent when requested by reporters concerning the probe, his spokeswoman pushed again in opposition to the investigation by his political foes.

“They have spent all year investigating the president… and have turned up with no evidence, none, that he did anything wrong,” Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed reporters.

“That’s because the president didn’t do anything wrong.”

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bowed to intense stress from his celebration’s exhausting proper and licensed the launch on Tuesday of an impeachment investigation.

Republican House members accuse Biden, a Democrat, of getting “lied” to the American individuals about his son Hunter’s controversial enterprise dealings overseas.

But Jean-Pierre mentioned Republicans didn’t even have sufficient help for a vote within the House to approve an impeachment probe.

“Even House Republicans have said the evidence does not exist,” she mentioned. “This is a political stunt.”

The probe comes as Biden faces low ballot rankings forward of a probable rematch with former president Donald Trump in subsequent 12 months’s presidential election.

Biden ignored impeachment questions from reporters on the White House whereas main a gathering of his “Cancer Cabinet” which goals to eradicate the illness, a part of a latest effort by the administration to place the main target again on his home agenda.

‘Good issues’

Cancer is private for Biden, whose eldest son Beau died from mind most cancers aged 46 in 2015. Biden had a cancerous pores and skin lesion eliminated in February whereas docs eliminated two from First Lady Jill Biden a month earlier than.

Biden has stood resolutely by his sole surviving son, Hunter, 53.

The youthful Biden’s enterprise dealings in Ukraine and China whereas his father was vp below Barack Obama have been a continuing goal of Republicans.

Hunter Biden, a recovering drug addict, is at the moment below investigation by a Justice Department particular counsel for doable tax evasion and is anticipated to be charged by the top of this month on a firearms violation.

However, he has not been charged with crimes associated to his overseas enterprise dealings, and no credible proof has emerged to this point that the president was concerned in something unlawful.

The probe nonetheless threatens to distract the White House and provides Republicans recent materials for assaults forward of the November 2024 election.

Biden holds a slim one-percent lead over Trump — 47 % to 46 — in a hypothetical match-up, in accordance with a brand new nationwide ballot by Quinnipiac University.

Half of voters thought Joe Biden was concerned in Hunter’s enterprise dealings with China and Ukraine, whereas 35 % thought the president did one thing unlawful, the ballot discovered.