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Boy. Isn't this a big one in the Hunter Biden conspiracy?
The big thing from Congressional Oversight Republicans, the one thing that seemed like evidence of the bribery they keep claiming, was that they got the "FD-1023" report of an informant that alleged the $5 million to Biden. Chuck Grassley put out a press release about it.
And now it appears like it was just some guy who lied about it.
It doesn't matter now, because it's already damaged Biden's reputation, which was their only goal
Same thing they did to Hilary with Benghazi.
It's literally become the Republican playbook. Spread scandal without evidence, play it up in the media, lie profusely, then pretend it never happened while moving on to the next fake scandal.
while moving on to the next fake scandal.
“Joe Biden stole my pic-a-nic basket and then forgot about it!” - Marjorie Taylor Greene, probably
Also Greene, "I couldn't find any pictures of Biden's dong so I used MS Paint to Photoshop his face on Hunter's body and blew it up on poster board for CSPAN!"
Benghazi actually happened though, and was an intelligence failure. Clinton shouldn’t have given the Republicans the soundbite they wanted, but here we are
This seems like the Kremlin ‘discovered’ this source (coincidentally during Trumps reign, no relation) and got him to make up some shady sounding shit to influence US domestic politics
They went to war on the say so of some random guy insisting Iraq had wmd so not super shocked about this.
Not a random guy, an Iraqi exile who really was an Iranian agent.
Good point.
If Comer knew that his informant was lying, then he should be charged too.
So should Chuck Grassley
Couldn't the time of contact have been figured out faster with modern communications technology? The media took the story to garner vyoos.
And how many Republicans will come to this guy's defense? My guess is a big fat zero. He served his purpose in muddying the waters. An expendable asset.
Wow, this took way too long to be debunked.
Now charge him for the chain of events that led to the internet seeing Hunter whack his meat.
Impeach Hunter!
I for one won't be re-electing him
He should never have been elected in the first place.
I didn't vote for him and no one I know did.
Wait, no. He comes from a wealthy family but had a raging substance abuse problem - obviously he's both part of the elite and a man of the people. We should be putting him in office!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.
Alexander Smirnov falsely told FBI agents in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said Thursday.
Smirnov told the FBI that a Burisma executive had claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say that though Smirnov claimed to have had contact with Burisma executives near the end of the Obama administration, it actually took place after Obama and Biden had left office -- when Biden would have had no ability to influence U.S. policy.
“In short, the Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy,” the indictment said.
He was expected to make a first court appearance in Las Vegas, where he was arrested Wednesday after arriving from overseas, prosecutors said.
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Smirnov told the FBI that a Burisma executive had claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to "protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems," prosecutors said.
Is it just me, or does that quote sound exactly like the way Trump speaks?