On 'The Takeout' podcast this week, Rep. Adam Smith discusses the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, and the prospect of a partial government shutdown.
The House Republican move to start impeachment proceedings against President Biden is an evidence-free nod to party extremists, said Washington Rep. Adam Smith, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
Smith acknowledged what he called"an incredibly complicated relationship" between the president and his son. House Republicans have alleged Hunter Biden's various business dealing enriched the Biden family and have suggested, without providing hard evidence, that the president profited. Republicans have established that the elder Biden did participate in phone calls Hunter held with business associates, which the president had originally denied.
"I could well be wrong about that," Smith said,"but the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, they are insisting on a lot of things in order to vote to the keep the government open. More big picture, I worry that the right wing of the Republican Party no longer believes in democracy. They believe in getting their way. If they don't get their way, they will destroy whatever they have to destroy to show people that they're not happy about it.
Smith also voiced strong support for Mr. Biden's request for $21 billion in new assistance for Ukraine, with $13 billion devoted to additional military equipment and munitions. "I was in massive amounts of pain," Smith said."I was on a whole bunch of different drugs. The anxiety was worse than ever. I was on anti-anxiety meds as well as anti-pain meds and I just wasn't getting any better. And so the story I tell is how did I get to that point? And then crucially, how did I get out of it?"
Smith said the anxiety began in 2005, disappeared for some years and returned when pain and depression began to trigger feelings of dread.
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