Axios has written a brutal obituary for the Republican Party's years-long effort to accuse President Joe Biden of engaging in systemic corruption.
The publication notes that the GOP's efforts to tar Biden with corruption allegations had been building up to releasing a report last month that accused the president of committing impeachable offenses.
However, Axios writes that the anti-Biden crusade "is collapsing into political irrelevance" now that he is no longer in the race and Vice President Kamala Harris has taken his place atop the Democratic presidential ticket.
Axios then scrutinizes the way that the GOP's impeachment report "landed with a thud."
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"The report doesn't offer direct proof that Joe Biden engaged in any corrupt quid pro quo on behalf of his family, but suggests he abused his power even if his family members only sold the 'illusion' of influence," the publication writes. "Peter Van Buren of The American Conservative called it a 'hollow vindication,' writing that 'the drive to impeach a lame-duck president seems to have missed its moment.' Some House Republicans seeking re-election in politically divided districts are furious that they could be forced into a last-minute Biden impeachment vote, which can be triggered by any single member."
The chances that Biden would ever get impeached, let alone convicted in the Democratic-led Senate, were always slim given that many swing-district Republicans have expressed skepticism of the case being laid out by Rep. James Comer (R-KY).
As if that weren't enough, Axios writes that "it's not just that the GOP's 'Biden crime family' attack has lost its salience" because "Trump himself could be sentenced to prison on Sept. 18 for his New York hush money conviction, which he continues to fight."
