The months of fruitless effort by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee to unearth evidence supporting an impeachment of President Joe Biden culminated on Wednesday in their long sought-after deposition of the president’s only surviving son, Hunter Biden.

It didn’t go well for them. The phrase “epic fail” comes to mind.

There was no reason for the GOP to be surprised that the deposition yielded no evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden—much less any smoking guns.

That should have been obvious the night before, when the Oversight Committee neatly packaged its complete lack of evidence justifying an impeachment into a handy social media post on X (formerly known as Twitter). Thanks to a boost from Elon Musk promoting it, the 19 posts got a good amount of views and likes—which only highlighted the lack of substance.

As set forth by Philip Bump in The Washington Post, the thread cherry-picks the best of the GOP’s theories—all of which have been debunked. These include the claim that money wired from the GOP’s go-to bogeymen—“Chinese nationals” (a phrase that has become a racist dog whistle)—to Joe Biden’s Delaware home evidences proof of corruption, when in fact the money was wired to Hunter Biden. The only connection to his father was the address of his father’s house, which is where Hunter Biden was living at the time.

Hunter Biden and his lawyer Abbe Lowell attend a House Oversight Committee meeting on Jan. 10, 2024.

Two other bogus claims of “evidence” include money paid to Biden being that were clearly repayment of loans made to James Biden—the president’s brother. Both payments were checks........

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