Republican Senator Says Current Allegations Against Biden May Not Be ‘Impeachable’ As Claims Related to Before He Was President

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) poured some cold water on the idea of actually impeaching President Joe Biden while on Newsmax Friday morning.

Host Rob Finnerty began the interview by claiming that the media was running cover for Biden and played clips of House Democrats and the White House defending the president against allegations of corruption following the House GOP officially opening an impeachment inquiry.

“Senator, the media, again, so quick to absolve Joe Biden of any wrongdoing. Let’s say this does go from inquiry to articles of impeachment in the House. Are you hoping that passes and actually does get to the Senate where it would become you know, you’d have to try this in the Senate and you’ve got to hope that the House puts together an airtight case for you?” Finnerty asked the Oklahoma Republican.

“Well, Rob, one thing that we’ve asked for during this impeachment inquiry is that the House will send us a solid case,” Mullin replied, adding:

Listen, the inquiry doesn’t mean that they’re going to impeach the president. All that means is they have access to the records. The White House and the Biden family hasn’t been giving us. Remember when this investigation first started, it was the Biden family did nothing wrong. Now they’re starting to say that Joe Biden didn’t do anything wrong.

They’re saying that Hunter Biden’s business deals aren’t attached to President Biden. Well, we know they are. There was over 50 shell companies and there’s numerous bank records that we’ve been able to get from Hunter Biden. But every time we try to get something from the White House on Joe Biden, the DOJ, which is ran by obviously Joe Biden, has said that without an impeachment inquiry, they’re not they’re not obligated to give it to us. So once we start this process, the one thing that the Republican senators have told the House, which is what we’ve told the House, is give us an airtight case.

Yeah, because we don’t want to play politics with impeaching the president like the Democrats did with Trump. So if they send us a case, make sure it’s convictable. And the bar is real high. There’s no question about it’s got to be a misdemeanor, high crime, or treason.

“And the other bar, it has to be committed while he was in office, the current office he holds. So what he did as vice president, what he did in between the two may not be impeachable,” Mullin added, referring to the House GOP’s allegations that Biden helped his son while he was vice president.

“Okay. So do you want this to make it to the Senate or would you rather focus on other things? Because there is an argument out there, Senator, that this could end up helping Joe Biden. You know, this, it’s done that in the past. It’s helped candidates who are running for reelection. It could do that for Biden. This could backfire on Republicans,” Finnerty followed up, also raising a warning flag for the House GOP going ahead with impeachment.

“It could. But if it’s an impeachable offense, if the president of the United States used his office to benefit him to gain favor with other countries while they’re actually paying him, that’s a huge issue that could lead to trial,” Mullin replied.

“You talk to your colleagues on the left in the Senate, is there any appetite for this with any Democrats that, you know, even off the record otherwise this is dead on arrival in the Senate in an election year?” Finnerty doubled down, suggesting this could all be for nothing.

“What’s interesting about the Senate versus the House is the senators have a lot bigger area, a lot bigger state to cover. So they cover blue parts of the other state plus red parts. And when you talk to some more moderate leaning senators, they will tell you that if the House sends us over an airtight case, that it completely easily points to the president breaking the law in treason, misdemeanor, high crime, that they would try it just like they would any other case, and go into it without a bipartisan look. But with a criminal look,” Mullin replied.

Finnerty pushed Mullin on if he personally knows of Democratic senators who are open to voting for impeachment to which Mullin said he has spoken to five willing to consider it as long as the case against Biden is strong.

Watch the full clip above via Newsmax.