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REPORT OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OF JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

REPORT OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OF JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Report of the
Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Committee on the Judiciary
Committee on Ways and Means
Prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives
118th Congress
In accordance with
H. Res. 918
August 19, 2024

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Constitution of the United States entrusts the House of Representatives with “the
sole Power of Impeachment.”1 When confronted with evidence that the President of the United
States may have engaged in “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,”2 it is
the House’s responsibility to conduct an impeachment inquiry and, when appropriate, prepare
articles of impeachment. In accordance with this obligation, and pursuant to direction from the
House, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the
Committee on Ways and Means have been conducting an inquiry to assess whether sufficient
evidence exists that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in impeachable conduct.3 As
described in this report, the Committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President
Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct. The Committees have prepared this report to inform
the House on the evidence gathered to date.

First and foremost, overwhelming evidence demonstrates that President Biden
participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family. Among
other aspects of this conspiracy, the Biden family and their business associates received tens of
millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments
would provide them access to and influence with President Biden. As Vice President, President
Biden actively participated in this conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his
family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on
speakerphone by Hunter Biden. For example, in 2014, Vice President Biden attended a dinner for
Hunter Biden with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina.4 Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5
million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a firm associated with Hunter Biden.5 Then, months later,
as Hunter Biden and his business associates continued to solicit more money from Baturina, Vice
President Biden participated in a phone call with Baturina and Hunter Biden where Vice
President Biden told Baturina, “you be good to my boy.”6 Moreover, President Biden knowingly
participated in this conspiracy. Based on the totality of the evidence, it is inconceivable that
President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by
abusing his office of public trust.

The evidence also establishes that the Biden family went to great lengths to conceal this
conspiracy. Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial
transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large
transactions into numerous smaller transactions. Substantial efforts were also made to hide
President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business activities.

Evidence obtained during the Committees’ impeachment inquiry also shows Hunter
Biden and his business associates leveraged Vice President Biden’s official position to garner

1 U.S. CONST . Art. 1, § 2, cl. 5.
2 U.S. CONST . Art. 2, § 4.
3 H. Res. 918, 118th Cong. (2023); H. Res. 917, 118th Cong. (2023).
4 Transcribed Interview of Devon Archer, H. Comm. on Oversight & Accountability, at 58 (July 31, 2023)
[hereinafter “Archer Interview”].
5 Transcribed Interview of Jason Galanis, H. Comm. on Oversight & Accountability & H. Comm. on the Judiciary,
at 83–84 (Feb. 23, 2024) [hereinafter “Galanis Interview”].
6 Id. at 11.

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favorable outcomes in foreign business dealings and legal proceedings. Several witnesses
testified that Hunter Biden invoked his father in business dealings with Romanian, Chinese,
Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian companies, resulting in millions of dollars flowing to the Biden
family. For example, around 2014, Hunter Biden explored starting a joint venture with Chinese
businessman Henry Zhao and his company, Harvest Fund Management (Harvest), “a $300
billion Chinese financial services company closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party,”7
and when it appeared the deal may not materialize, he called his father for assistance.8 Similarly,
while Hunter Biden served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma
from 2014 to 2019, he utilized his father’s position to relieve pressure the company was under
from a government investigation. In doing so, Vice President Biden changed U.S. policy in order
to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee until Ukraine took government action to stop the
investigation into the company affiliated with Hunter Biden. After leaving office, Joe Biden and
his family continued their financial relationships with corrupt Chinese businessmen who would
send the Bidens millions of dollars.

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favorable outcomes in foreign business dealings and legal proceedings. Several witnesses
testified that Hunter Biden invoked his father in business dealings with Romanian, Chinese,
Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian companies, resulting in millions of dollars flowing to the Biden
family. For example, around 2014, Hunter Biden explored starting a joint venture with Chinese
businessman Henry Zhao and his company, Harvest Fund Management (Harvest), “a $300
billion Chinese financial services company closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party,”7
and when it appeared the deal may not materialize, he called his father for assistance.8 Similarly,
while Hunter Biden served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma
from 2014 to 2019, he utilized his father’s position to relieve pressure the company was under
from a government investigation. In doing so, Vice President Biden changed U.S. policy in order
to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee until Ukraine took government action to stop the
investigation into the company affiliated with Hunter Biden. After leaving office, Joe Biden and
his family continued their financial relationships with corrupt Chinese businessmen who would
send the Bidens millions of dollars.
President Biden’s participation in this conspiracy to enrich his family constitutes
impeachable conduct. By monetizing the Vice Presidency for his family’s benefit, he abused his
office of public trust, placing the welfare of his family ahead of the welfare of the United States.
He also put foreign interests ahead of the interests of the American people. Indeed, precedent set
by House Democrats in 2019 in their impeachment of President Donald J. Trump establishes that
“abuse of office,” defined as the exercise of “official power to obtain an improper personal
benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest,” is an impeachable offense.9
Separately, the Committees have gathered evidence that President Biden used his official
position to conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen. During his
tenure as Vice President, Joe Biden removed highly sensitive classified documents from the
White House, despite having no authority to do so. Documents with classified markings were
later found at the Penn Biden Center, at his personal residence in a garage, and at the University
of Delaware.10 The report of Special Counsel Robert Hur detailed how President Biden willfully
retained classified material, shared it with a ghostwriter who was unauthorized to receive
classified information, and utilized the classified information to draft a memoir for which he
received an $8 million advance.11 The Special Counsel’s report, as well as the Committees’
inquiry, disclosed how President Biden caused White House employees to conceal his conduct
and mislead the American people about his actions.12
Finally, the Committees have obtained significant evidence that corroborates many of the
allegations made by the IRS whistleblowers with respect to the Justice Department’s deviations

7 Id. at 9-10.
8 Id. at 10; see also id. at 88 (“[W]hat I overheard was looking for help to get it over the finish line, and the it was
the Harvest investment into Burnham.”).
9 H.R. REP. N O. 116-346, at 44 (2019).
10 ROBERT K. H UR , U.S. D EP’ T OF JUST ., O FF. OF SPECIAL COUNS., REPORT ON THE I NVESTIGATION I NTO
U NAUTHORIZED REMOVAL , RETENTION, AND D ISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED D OCUMENTS D ISCOVERED AT L OCATIONS
I NCLUDING THE PENN BIDEN CENTER AND THE DELAWARE PRIVATE RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR .,
at 19 (Feb. 2024) [hereinafter “Hur Report”].
11 Id. at 102.
12 See generally id.

from standard procedures to benefit Hunter Biden. The Justice Department allowed the statute of
limitations to run on two serious charges facing Hunter Biden. The Justice Department prevented
line attorneys from conducting key interviews and pursuing important lines of inquiry. The
Justice Department tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about nonpublic investigative actions and
implemented unnecessary hurdles and approvals for prosecutors to charge Hunter Biden. The
special treatment for Hunter Biden, which only ceased at the onset of congressional attention on
the Department’s investigation, may be a basis for impeachment, as the distortion of an official
investigation was a basis in the prospective impeachment of President Nixon in 1974.13
Additionally, the House need not show that the President directly ordered his subordinates to
obstruct an investigation; in certain circumstances the President may be impeached for the
actions of subordinate officials.14
During the course of the impeachment inquiry, President Biden and his Administration
have failed to fully cooperate with the House’s inquiry. The Biden-Harris Justice Department has
instructed certain key fact witnesses to not answer questions and directed others to disregard
subpoenas from the Committees. The Biden-Harris White House has obfuscated facts and denied
the Committees access to witnesses. President Biden met with Hunter Biden before Hunter’s
defiance of his subpoenas for testimony, and the White House acknowledged that President
Biden was aware in advance of Hunter’s actions. Here, too, precedent from the Democrats’ 2019
impeachment is instructive. “As a matter of constitutional law,” Democrats explained then, “the
House may properly conclude that a President’s obstruction of Congress is relevant to assessing
the evidentiary record in an impeachment inquiry” and “[w]here the President illegally seeks to
obstruct such an inquiry, the House is free to infer that evidence blocked from its view is harmful
to the President’s position.”15 Applying the precedent here, the House is free to conclude that the
witnesses and information currently withheld from the Committees are adverse to the President.

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The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the Committees is egregious. President
Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift. In doing so, he abused his office
and, by repeatedly lying about his abuse of office, has defrauded the United States to enrich his
family. Not one of these transactions would have occurred, but for Joe Biden’s official position in
the United States government. This pattern of conduct ensured his family—who provided no
legitimate services—lived a lavish lifestyle. The evidence uncovered in the Committees’
impeachment inquiry reflects a family selling the “Biden brand” around the world with President
Biden—the “big guy”—swooping in to seal the deal on speaker phones or in private dinners. It
shows a concerted effort to conceal President Biden’s involvement in the family’s influence
peddling scheme. One witness explained that when it comes to mentioning Vice President Joe
Biden’s involvement, “Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it.”16

13 Philip C. Bobbitt, Impeachment: A Handbook, 128 Y ALE L.J. FORUM 515, 581 (2018).
14 See id. at 581–82 (“The Framers repeatedly stated that the president could be impeached for the acts of his
subordinates, whether or not he directed them in their misdeeds.”).
15 H.R. REP. N O. 116-346, at 67-68 (2019).
16 Galanis Interview at 120.

President Biden acquiesced to and participated in his family’s influence peddling
schemes. Indeed, those schemes would not have generated millions of dollars if President Biden
did not do exactly what his family members needed him to do: show up. He did so intentionally,
repeatedly, and with the knowledge that his actions sent the message his family members
intended: that they had access to Joe Biden and, in exchange for payment, anyone—even a
foreign adversary—could obtain access.
Given considerable Member interest in the status of the inquiry and to correct false and
misleading assertions, this report presents the state of evidence as gathered to date in the House’s
impeachment inquiry. The inquiry continues as the Committees develop evidence and obtain
access to information. The Committees continue to seek relevant documents and testimony.
Subpoenas to various entities remain outstanding. Whistleblowers continue to provide
incriminating evidence of the Administration’s special treatment for the President’s son.
The Constitution’s remedy for a President’s flagrant abuse of office is clear: impeachment
by the House of Representatives and removal by the Senate. Despite the cheapening of the
impeachment power by Democrats in recent years, the House’s decision to pursue articles of
impeachment must not be made lightly. As such, this report endeavors to present the evidence
gathered to date so that all Members of the House may assess the extent of President Biden’s
corruption.“ (…)