# The Hunter Biden Investigation {thread started in 2019}, Hunter Pardoned on December 1, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 28, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964 "2019-09-28T19:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 613
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/613 "2023-09-12T16:54:35Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Mine, on the other hand, is that they actually will impeach Biden over something completely stupid and baseless, because they know there’s a non-zero number of voters who will conclude that he must have done something wrong to be impeached, and therefore is every bit as corrupt as Trump. That’s plausible, but such an impeachment would not hinge on this investigation at all. It would probably not even mention it, and they’d preferably try to keep them as separate as possible. You don’t want to base the impeachment on an investigation that doesn’t find anything. To put it in other terms, if you’re calling the fire department, you’ll tell them that you see smoke a couple of blocks away. You don’t call them after you head to the smoke and find people having a BBQ cookout, and tell that to the fire department. ETA: I see that the investigation has its own thread, probably best to continue this there: > [@"House to start an impeachment inquiry into President Biden"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-to-start-an-impeachment-inquiry-into-president-biden/989995): > > Goodness knows, there’s no other governmentin’ that really needs to be done right now. … But it’s unclear whether any formal resolution would have the votes to pass. Republicans hold a narrow majority in the House and he can only afford to lose four votes on a measure that is not expected to get any support from Democrats. Several politically vulnerable moderate Republicans, like Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., have been skeptical of an impeachment inquiry. Buck said this weekend on MSNBC that whi… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964)._