Republicans will make decision on Biden impeachment ‘early next year’: Rep. Jordan

House Republicans will make a decision early next year on whether to try to impeach President Biden, the head of the House Judiciary Committee predicted Sunday.

Panel chair and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said the GOP’s impeachment inquiry still needs some finishing touches, while many of his allies have already concluded there is enough evidence to impeach.

“I believe we will get the depositions and the interviews done in this calendar year and then make a decision early next year whether the actual evidence warrants going to articles of impeachment and moving to that stage of the investigation,” Jordan told “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Last week, the probe, lead by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-La.), fired off about a dozen subpoenas and transcribed interview requests.

Most notably, the inquiry subpoenaed scandal-plagued first son Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James Biden for testimony, in addition to business associates and key players in the family’s dealings.

Comer, before making the move, went on “Sunday Morning Futures” last week and outright contended that Joe Biden should be impeached, though he didn’t lay out a timeline.

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“I think he should, but that’s going to be left up to the speaker,” Comer said last Sunday. “People ask me why I haven’t put someone in jail yet. All I can do is investigate.”

Jordan declined to go so far as to predict an impeachment.

The probe features a collaboration between the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees. It was formed in September and is investigating the president’s family business dealings as well as alleged influence peddling schemes.

President Biden’s defenders in the White House have ripped the impeachment inquiry, accusing Republicans of playing partisan games and denying wrongdoing by the commander in chief.

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Special Counsel David Weiss, who has been in charge of prosecuting the case against Hunter Biden, testified before the Judiciary Committee behind closed doors last week.

He reportedly confirmed that he asked special counsel status in June 2022 for his investigation into the first son.

Although he wasn’t granted that status until August, Weiss insisted, “I would have always been able to get it if I had asked for it,” according to Jordan, who described inconsistencies in th special counsel’s testimony when talking to reporters last week.

Behind closed doors, Weiss also evaded many questions, citing the ongoing nature of his work. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to tax and firearm charges brought forth by Weiss’ team.

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A key concern for Jordan is how Weiss asked to partner with US attorneys in the district of Southern California and the district of Washington, DC, but the two prosecutors declined.

“Guess what that charge was going to be? It was going to be the tax year that dealt with the Burisma income,” Jordan said, referring to Hunter’s alleged shady dealings with the Ukrainian gas company.

“That to me is hugely significant because the Burisma years were all that income coming into Hunter Biden. That statute of limitations — they let it expire. And I think it expired because if they go there, that takes them right back to the White House, right back to Joe Biden.”

At one point, host Maria Bartiromo raised concerns about the timing of an impeachment, saying, “We’ve got an election next year, President Trump is facing four indictments, and you’ve got this dereliction of duty.”

In response, Jordan quoted former President Donald Trump, who is staring down 91 criminal counts.

“He said they come after him because he’s fighting for us,” Jordan said of Trump. “That is true. That’s what The Swamp does. They’re going after President Trump because he kept his word, and he’s fighting for us.”