White House counsel Edward Siskel sent a letter Friday morning to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R‑LA), calling on the closure of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as Republicans start to acknowledge stalled efforts.
“I write to you today because it is clear the House Republican impeachment is over,” Siskel wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The four-page letter states House Republicans have held several public hearings, heard from 20 witnesses, and collected 100,000 pages of records but could not prove their allegations of the president’s involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings and financial benefits from his family’s foreign aff …