Appearing on Mark Levin’s show this weekend, Peter Schweizer called the obstruction of the Biden investigation “a national disgrace.”
Levin ticks off the most recent revelations in the case:
- A $250,000 check from a Chinese businessman wired to a bank account whose listed address was Joe Biden’s residence at the time
- Chinese funds given to the Penn Biden Center while Joe Biden was out of office
- Corroborating emails and text messages found by the House Oversight Committee on Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive
- Testimony from Hunter’s former associates Tony Bobulinski and Devon Archer, who confirmed, among other things, that Joe Biden was “the Big Guy” referenced in emails about how to divide the spoils of Hunter’s sketchy business deals.
“There is so much evidence for what the Bidens have done,” Schweizer replies. “This is essentially what the impeachment articles were set up for. The notion that foreign powers are influencing a president is precisely why you have an impeachment inquiry.”
So why, Levin then asks, isn’t the Republicans leadership US Senate encouraging the House’s impeachment inquiry?
“You have to look at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. He has been there a long time,” Schweizer answers. “One of the reasons they don’t want to have a conversation about Chinese influence in the United States is because Mitch McConnell, in my mind, is number two on the list of politicians who are compromised by China. Joe Biden is first, but McConnell is a close second.”
Schweizer devoted an entire chapter of his 2018 book, Secret Empires, to detailing the success of the Chao family’s shipping business in China. Elaine Chao, daughter of the company’s founder, is McConnell’s wife and has served as a cabinet secretary in Republican administrations.
“The Chinese government set up McConnell’s family to reap huge amounts of money in global shipping business,” Schweizer tells Levin. “They financed construction of their shipping vessels, they built them, they provide crews, they provide the contracts. Mitch McConnell knows that if he were to step on the feet of Beijing and in any way anger them, they can destroy the family business overnight,” Schweizer said.
Many Democrats and media pundits have suggested the House impeachment inquiry is unjustified. Because of the corruption inside the Justice Department and elsewhere in the federal government, Schweizer disagrees.
“This is a problem we must face as a country. . . What opportunities s do we have if the machinery of government has broken down? What other options do we have when our political leadership faces these same compromise situations?” he said.
