"Quid pro Joe": Rep. Cory Mills plans to file impeachment resolution against Biden for restricting some bombs to Israel.
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Rep. Cory Mills on Friday said he’s filing an impeachment resolution against President Biden because he restricted some bombs to Israel for “political gain,” and argued Biden was violating the “precedent” Democrats set when they impeached Donald Trump for threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate Biden.
“Explain what you believe is the quid pro quo argument in this impeachment article,” Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked during an interview.
“Well, it's really no different if you go back to what President Biden had tweeted out previously. He said that withholding congressionally appropriated aid for a return of a political gain is in some way a quid pro quo and that President Trump should be impeached with regards to Ukraine,” the Florida Republican said.
Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. would halt some shipments of offensive weapons to Israel if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah. The president also acknowledged that some American weapons have been used to kill civilians in Gaza. This comes after the U.S. confirmed Tuesday that last week it paused the shipment of more than three thousand bombs amid fears about how Israel could use them in the densely crowded city.
Mills argues Biden's decisions with aid is a violation of his oath of office.
“The reality is that when you're trying to withhold humanitarian or any type of congressional appropriated aid for the purpose of political gain — which he does look at political gain because he wants to win Michigan, he wants to pander to the radical left,” Mills said. “And now with the quid pro quo, it should be quid pro Joe.”
But former U.S. government officials have told the Washington Post that, by its own existing standards, the U.S. should have already halted or limited weapons transfers to prevent them from being used to violate international humanitarian law.
