Congresswoman and QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene announces articles of impeachment against Biden

• Freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
• Greene, a staunch Trump supporter, accused Biden in the document of engaging in quid pro quo with Ukraine and engaging in "high crimes and misdemeanors" in order to benefit himself and his son Hunter.
• The accusations, which were a major talking point during the 2020 election, have been largely discredited and a GOP-led Senate committee found no evidence to support them after a months-long investigation.

One day after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she was introducing articles of impeachment against him.

The Georgia lawmaker made waves even before she joined Congress given her support for the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, her claim that the Parkland school shooting was a hoax, and her long history of racist and antisemitic beliefs.

In a statement released on Thursday, Greene, who represents Georgia's 14th Congressional District, said: "President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's Vice President is lengthy and disturbing."

Greene then went on to claim that Biden had committed to quid pro quo with Ukrainian officials while he was Vice President to help his son "siphon cash from America's greatest enemies Russian and China."

• Fact check: Republicans have repeatedly claimed that Biden inappropriately leveraged his role as vice president to boost his son Hunter's business interests. A GOP-led Senate committee conducted a months-long investigation into the matter and found no evidence to support the claim. Multiple witnesses who testified in former President Donald Trump's first impeachment also said the allegations had no merit. And Hunter Biden is currently under criminal investigation over his financial affairs, but there is no evidence that the president is a subject of interest to federal prosecutors.

Greene said Biden should be impeached for "enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits - including financial compensation - from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors."

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Greene's announcement relied largely on unsubstantiated claims floated in a New York Post story last year which alleged that Hunter Biden used his father's government position to do business deals in Russia. The Post's story was coordinated by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and was quickly discredited. The FBI is also investigating whether the laptop at the center of the story was part of a foreign influence operation.

Along with filing the articles of impeachment, Greene asked supporters to text and sign a petition and donate funds to her impeachment filing, though language on the donations page specifies that the donations are being made to "Greene for Congress" and "will be used in connection with federal elections."

Both houses of Congress are currently controlled by Democrats, making it virtually impossible that Greene's impeachment push will move forward. It's also unlikely that she'll get much support from within her own party; following the insurrection at the Capitol, the prevailing sentiment among the GOP establishment was that it was time to move forward and acknowledge Biden's victory.

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Greene's announcement this week is the latest in a series of controversies she's been embroiled in since joining the House. When she was sworn in on January 4, Greene refused to put on a mask and left the House floor, prompting a shouting match between Democratic and Republican staffers.

On Sunday, Greene's Twitter was suspended for 12 hours after she suggested in a now-deleted tweet that Trump supporters "mobilize and make your voices heard in opposition to these attacks on our liberties" ahead of Biden's inauguration.

Greene is one of two members of Congress - along with Colorado Rep. Laura Boebert - who have expressed support for QAnon, the baseless right-wing conspiracy theory that alleges Trump is secretly fighting a "deep state" Satanic cabal of child-eating pedophiles.

The FBI warned in August 2019 that conspiracy theories like QAnon posed a domestic terrorism threat. This year, it surfaced that many of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol to hunt down and execute lawmakers and then Vice President Mike Pence were QAnon believers.

Emails to Greene's office were not immediately returned.