Mike Johnson in 2019: 'You can’t impeach a president because you don’t like him'

On Wednesday, House Republicans voted unanimously to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite a lack of any evidence tying Biden to any crimes. This flies in the face of what the House GOP's leader said about politically motivated impeachments approximately four years ago.

In a video tweeted by the X (formerly Twitter) account Republicans Against Trump, then-Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) delivered a fiery speech in 2019 blasting Rep. Al Green's (D-Texas) attempt to impeach then-President Donald Trump.

"You don't like his political positions, great, but you can't impeach a president because you don't like him! That's not how this system works," Johnson said. "We're in a constitutional republic. There are rules here, there are standards."

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"You don't get to make that decision — the voters in this country do. And we have an election coming up in about 11 months! Let the people decide," he added. "Don't put yourselves in their place. You don't have the right to do it. You're not following the proper procedure. You're not doing this the right way. It's a rarely used constitutional device in our history. It's supposed to be."

According to House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky), Republicans' strongest argument in favor of impeachment is the business President Biden's son, Hunter, conducted with Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma. Comer claimed on Fox News — without citing any evidence — that approximately $24 million was funneled through various shell companies to Biden and members of his family.

Comer also claimed that as Vice President, Biden organized the ouster of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma. However, calls for that prosecutor to be removed actually came from the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for failing to investigate corruption.

Prior to Republicans' impeachment vote, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) admitted to reporters that there was "probably not" any evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors that merit the impeachment of a president, but that he would vote for the inquiry anyway.

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