'Impeachment fatigue' as conservative media distances itself from GOP push: 'Don’t have any facts'

The conservative media establishment is growing increasingly cold to House Republicans' efforts to impeach President Joe Biden following the recent party-line vote in the House of Representatives to authorize an impeachment inquiry.

According to The Guardian, the right-wing media landscape in the US is seeing a wave of "impeachment fatigue" as GOP leaders have continued to fail to produce any evidence proving Biden committed high crimes and misdemeanors that would typically merit impeachment. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) has suggested that bank records show Biden's son, Hunter, had somehow channeled money to his father using shell companies in his dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, but that theory has already been thoroughly debunked.

"You don’t actually have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence," Fox News' Steve Doocy told Comer earlier this year. "And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit … there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally."

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier has also weighed in, harkening back to comments then-Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) made about Democrats' impeachment effort against Trump years before he was elected Speaker of the House. At the time, Johnson said, "I hope and pray future Congresses can and will exercise greater restraint [on impeachment]."

"Why not exercise greater restraint now?" Baier said.

Fox News isn't alone in its skepticism of the House GOP's efficacy. Rob Finnerty — an on-air personality for far-right network Newsmax — said last week that Republicans' impeachment efforts were "an exercise in futility" given that it would fail to meet an impeachment trial's 67-vote threshold in the Democratic-controlled US Senate. He added that the GOP ran the risk of strengthening Biden heading into the 2024 election if it followed through on its impeachment threat.

For his part, Comer — who owns roughly 1,600 acres of farmland in his home state of Kentucky — is facing allegations that he himself has used multiple shell companies in various transactions concerning acreage he co-owns with his wife to avoid taxes. The AP reported that the Kentucky Republican's "own finances and relationships have begun to draw notice, too — including his ties to prominent local figures who have complicated pasts not all that dissimilar to some of those caught up in his Biden probe."

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