House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently announced his support for an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. McCarthy’s announcement contradicts his prior position and aligns with the far-right’s ongoing push for impeachment.

Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman breaks down GOP arguments and concerns, concluding that no evidence exists to merit the inquiry in the first place. Pakman argues that McCarthy’s push for this baseless inquiry is a risk he might be taking with his whole career.

Republicans in the House of Representatives are launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. What a politically risky move. They must have a ton of evidence against Biden, right?

It turns out that they don’t. And one of the justifications that Republicans are giving for launching the impeachment inquiry, per House Republican Nancy Mace, is that they need to do it in order to try to find the evidence.

Now, this is completely circular in every way. So, do you have the evidence or not? Well, we need the inquiry in order to find the evidence. Well, that doesn’t really make a lot of sense, does it? But it’s what they’re saying.

Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House, and he, over the last many days, has put forward any number of reasons for why Joe Biden is going to be subjected to this impeachment inquiry. Remember, the inquiry is a precursor to actually going forward with impeachment, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.