Newly-elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday said she plans on filing articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenGrowing number of GOP lawmakers say they support impeachment House passes measure calling on Pence to remove Trump Disney, Walmart say they will block donations to lawmakers who objected to Electoral College results MORE on his first full day in office next week.
During an appearance on Newsmax Wednesday evening, Greene, a vocal supporter of President TrumpDonald TrumpGrowing number of GOP lawmakers say they support impeachment YouTube temporarily bars uploading of new content on Trump’s channel House passes measure calling on Pence to remove Trump MORE, said that she is planning on introducing a measure to impeach Biden on Jan. 21, one day after his inauguration.
“I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure our leaders are held accountable, we cannot have a President of the United States who is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies, so on January 21, I will be filing articles of impeachment on Joe Biden,” Greene told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly.
Greene did not specify what the articles might charge Biden.
On January 21st, I’m filing Articles of Impeachment on President-elect @JoeBiden.
75 million Americans are fed up with inaction.
It’s time to take a stand.
I’m proud to be the voice of Republican voters who have been ignored. #ImpeachBiden#QuidProJoe #BidenCrimeFamily pic.twitter.com/E83s1iOoVF
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 14, 2021
But Greene in the interview cited an argument advanced by several Trump allies in the final months of his reelection campaign, that while vice president, Biden threatened to withhold a loan to Ukraine if then-prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was not replaced.
Shokin at the time was investigating the founder of Burisma Holdings, a natural gas giant in Ukraine, of which Biden’s son Hunter Biden had served as a member of the board since 2014.
The U.S. threatened to withhold roughly $1 billion in loan guarantees if Shokin was not replaced as prosecutor general, a message Joe Biden delivered to officials in Kyiv while serving as vice president and recounted during a 2018 Council on Foreign Relations conference.
Taylor Greene shared a clip from the 2018 conference on Wednesday, writing “Quid Pro Joe, in his own words…” and “Americans will not tolerate this.”
Quid Pro Joe, in his own words…
Americans will not tolerate this.#QuidProJoe#BidenCrimeFamily#ImpeachBiden pic.twitter.com/wAOITlEk1N
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 14, 2021
While Biden did leverage aid in order to persuade Ukraine to oust Shokin in March 2016, it came amid larger criticism that Shokin was not pursuing allegations of corruption among the country’s politicians.
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