Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have recently made public additional documents sourced from Hunter Biden and his associates during the period when President Joe Biden was vice president. Of particular significance is Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, who indicated that Hunter engaged in business-related discussions with his father despite contrary assertions made by the president.

Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten believes that with all this evidence piling up, it’s important that Congress start the process to impeach the president.

The questions at this point are how extensive Joe’s knowledge was, how — beyond the apparent Burisma case — it directly influenced U.S. policy, and whether and to what extent Joe personally profited. The public should demand a fulsome investigation — likely in the form of an impeachment inquiry — giving Congress maximum oversight power. This is alleged public corruption of the highest order. A damage assessment needs to be done, and precautions need to be taken to insulate us from compromise going forward. 

Congress may well need to put new laws on the books with real teeth, to punish the acts at play here and deter such misconduct. The investigation itself, if done properly, could help deter such behavior. That inquiry should pursue every last record of all Biden family dealings with foreign powers, extensively review all relevant policies with which Joe Biden was and has been involved concerning those powers, and any nexus of those policies to the individuals and business interests tied to the Biden family business. It should include interviews with every last implicated person, including present administration officials, and it must deduce whether and to what extent funds or other benefits flowed from the Biden family to the president.