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House Approves Biden Impeachment Inquiry as G.O.P. Hunts for an Offense
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So is that how Fox and other RWM spinning it?
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eric Swalwell to Jim Jordan: How dumb do you think the American people are that you would seek to hold someone in contempt when you are 608 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds out of compliance of your own subpoena? <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acyn</a><a href="https://t.co/NE78KnPyZW">pic.twitter.com/NE78KnPyZW</a></p>&mdash; The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1745128491828253144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


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(01-10-2024, 09:44 PM)GMDino Wrote: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eric Swalwell to Jim Jordan: How dumb do you think the American people are that you would seek to hold someone in contempt when you are 608 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds out of compliance of your own subpoena? <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acyn</a><a href="https://t.co/NE78KnPyZW">pic.twitter.com/NE78KnPyZW</a></p>&mdash; The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1745128491828253144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


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They think they are as dumb as they have shown themselves to be.
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(01-10-2024, 10:37 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: They think they are as dumb as they have shown themselves to be.

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Running away like a coward is the Biden signature move. Daddy taught him that one.

Sugar daddy looked like he was ready to snort the parmesan.
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(01-11-2024, 10:40 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: Running away like a coward is the Biden signature move. Daddy taught him that one.

Sugar daddy looked like he was ready to snort the parmesan.

Not sure if you believe this or are just trolling.

Either way your opinion of a guy who is fighting addiction and also showed up to be questioned in front of cameras is the opposite of "running away".
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(01-11-2024, 10:55 AM)GMDino Wrote: Not sure if you believe this or are just trolling.

Either way your opinion of a guy who is fighting addiction and also showed up to be questioned in front of cameras is the opposite of "running away".

Mate, they are wearing shirts saying No Surrender with their dude on photo actually surrendering. 

Don't ask for too much logic there ! 

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(01-11-2024, 01:58 PM)Arturo Bandini Wrote: Mate, they are wearing shirts saying No Surrender with their dude on photo actually surrendering. 

Don't ask for too much logic there ! 

Oh, I know.  They have painted themselves into a corner.

Projection is all they have.
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(01-11-2024, 10:40 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: Running away like a coward is the Biden signature move. Daddy taught him that one.

Sugar daddy looked like he was ready to snort the parmesan.

The US government has no right to confine a private citizen in that situation for a reason...even when you don't like the private citizen the government is attempting to force itself upon.

If conservatives love freedom so much, seeing Hunter Biden exercise his right to leave that situation should make you proud.  You have to love freedom even when people you hate are free to do things you hate.
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#51
James Gomer Comer Pyle keeps getting owned by Hunter Biden's legal maneuvers.



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(12-15-2023, 01:39 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: It amusing the majority in this forum are liberals, same people who don't condone Trump was persecuted by the Democrats in Congress, liberal press and DOJ for 7 years and counting.

For those who feel Trump and his family are guilty of something, by all means start a thread about it and provide your facts. I am all for it. 

But, an FBI paid credible informant was interviewed, a form 1023 was produced the informant stating Joe Biden took a bribe. I call that evidence. At a minimum, did the FBI and DOJ investigate this claim? The DOJ needs to be transparent and show us if the informant's info was vetted.

About that 1023 form--apparently the informant's info has been "vetted."

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

Alexander Smirnov falsely reported to the FBI 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 in an indictment. Smirnov told his handler that an executive claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Smirnov in fact had only routine business dealings with the company in 2017 and made the bribery allegations after he “expressed bias” against Joe Biden while he was a presidential candidate.

The informant’s claims have been central to the Republican effort in Congress to investigate the president and his family, and helped spark what is now a House impeachment inquiry into Biden. An attorney for Hunter Biden, who is expected to give a deposition later this month, said the charges show the probe is “based on dishonest, uncredible allegations and witnesses.”

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, called for an end to the Biden impeachment inquiry.

Raskin said the allegations from the Republicans against Biden “have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories.” He called on Speaker Mike Johnson, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Republicans “to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry.”

Comer, R-Ky., downplayed the importance of the informant, who had figured centrally to the start of the probe.
“To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023,” Comer said in a statement, referring to the form documenting Smirnov’s allegations.
The chairman said the inquiry “is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony,” including interviews this week. He said the committee will continue to “follow the facts” and determine whether to proceed with articles of impeachment against Biden.
In the indictment, prosecutors say that Smirnov had contact with Burisma executives, but it was routine and actually took place in 2017, after President Barack Obama and Biden, his vice president, had left office -- when Biden would have had no ability to influence U.S. policy.

Smirnov “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 repeated some of the false claims when he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023 and changed his story about others and “promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials,” prosecutors said.
If convicted, Smirnov faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
The charges were filed by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who has separately charged Hunter Biden with firearm and tax violations.
The Burisma allegations became a flashpoint in Congress as Republicans pursing investigations of President Joe Biden and his family demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the allegations. They acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if the allegations were true.

Comer had subpoenaed the FBI last year for the so-called FD-1023 document as Republicans deepened their probe of Biden and his son Hunter ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Working alongside Comer, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released an unclassified document that Republicans at the time claimed was significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden. It added to information that had been widely aired during Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial involving Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election. After Grassley released the document, the White House said the claims in it had been “debunked for years.”
The impeachment inquiry into Biden over his son’s business dealings has lagged in the House, but the panel is pushing ahead with its work.
Hunter Biden is expected to appear before the committee later this month. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, said he had long warned the probe was based on “lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right and the air is out of their balloon.”
A judge set a detention hearing for Feb. 20 for Smirnov, who was arrested at the Las Vegas airport after arriving in the U.S. from overseas.
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Jim Biden has a lot of explaining to do based on Politico findings. Joe Biden could clear it all up immediately if innocent, just provide the loan he gave to his brother with the loan terms. Looks like influence peddling to me.

Carol Fox told the committee she filed a lawsuit against James, saying he made "representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-200k-payment-brother-scrutiny-report-failed-hospital-venture

Biden's $200K payment from brother receives renewed scrutiny after report detailing failed hospital venture
James Biden gave his brother the check in 2018 and labeled it 'loan repayment'
Brandon Gillespie By Brandon Gillespie Fox News
Published February 19, 2024 7:28pm EST


A heavily scrutinized $200,000 check that President Biden received from his brother, James Biden, in 2018 has resurfaced in a new report detailing how the latter leaned heavily on his family's influence to promote a now-defunct hospital chain targeted by the Department of Justice for fraud.

According to the report published Sunday by Politico, James centered his consulting work for Americore, a company that operated rural hospitals, on his leverage as a member of the Biden family, but those connections never materialized into more financing for the company before it ultimately collapsed.

Fox News Digital reported last year that [u]Americore loaned James approximately $600,000 on the promise that his name could bring in funding from the Middle East. On the same day, $200,000 of the $600,000 was transferred to James' personal bank account, prompting him to write Biden a $200,000 check from that same account.
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Politico said that its investigation of James' work for Americore "did not find that Joe Biden involved himself in the firm or took actions on its behalf," but that the president "did benefit indirectly from his brother's work with the firm," citing the $200,000 payment.

The White House has consistently denied that the money was anything other than repayment for a loan Biden previously gave James as a private citizen, and redacted bank records appear to show a $200,000 payment made to James just weeks earlier from a bank account belonging to Biden.

However, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have emphasized the payment, whether a loan or not, "aptly demonstrates one way [Biden] personally benefited from his family’s shady influence peddling of his name and their access to him."

"Even if the transaction in question was part of a loan agreement, we are troubled that Joe Biden’s ability to recoup funds depends on his brother’s cashing-in on the Biden brand," Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital in October.


James is expected to be interviewed as part of the committee's impeachment inquiry against Biden on Feb. 21.

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According to Politico, a number of former Americore executives said James, at the time, wanted to give Biden equity in the company, put him on its board, and promote its success in a future presidential campaign, none of which ever occurred due to the company's failure.

Americore is facing an ongoing $100 million federal prosecution after the DOJ found one of its hospitals allegedly undertook a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing the government for medically unnecessary lab tests.
However, James has not been accused of any crime.

In December, a Chapter 11 trustee for Americore testified before the Oversight Committee that the $600,000 loan was provided to James with no documentation in return for the promise of funding from the Middle East that never came.


Carol Fox told the committee she filed a lawsuit against James, saying he made "representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections."

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The suit was ultimately settled with James required to pay back $350,000 of the loan.
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(02-19-2024, 07:46 PM)Dill Wrote: About that 1023 form--apparently the informant's info has been "vetted."

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

Alexander Smirnov falsely reported to the FBI 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 in an indictment. Smirnov told his handler that an executive claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Smirnov in fact had only routine business dealings with the company in 2017 and made the bribery allegations after he “expressed bias” against Joe Biden while he was a presidential candidate.

The informant’s claims have been central to the Republican effort in Congress to investigate the president and his family, and helped spark what is now a House impeachment inquiry into Biden. An attorney for Hunter Biden, who is expected to give a deposition later this month, said the charges show the probe is “based on dishonest, uncredible allegations and witnesses.”

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, called for an end to the Biden impeachment inquiry.

Raskin said the allegations from the Republicans against Biden “have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories.” He called on Speaker Mike Johnson, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Republicans “to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry.”

Comer, R-Ky., downplayed the importance of the informant, who had figured centrally to the start of the probe.
“To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023,” Comer said in a statement, referring to the form documenting Smirnov’s allegations.
The chairman said the inquiry “is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony,” including interviews this week. He said the committee will continue to “follow the facts” and determine whether to proceed with articles of impeachment against Biden.
In the indictment, prosecutors say that Smirnov had contact with Burisma executives, but it was routine and actually took place in 2017, after President Barack Obama and Biden, his vice president, had left office -- when Biden would have had no ability to influence U.S. policy.

Smirnov “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 repeated some of the false claims when he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023 and changed his story about others and “promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials,” prosecutors said.
If convicted, Smirnov faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
The charges were filed by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who has separately charged Hunter Biden with firearm and tax violations.
The Burisma allegations became a flashpoint in Congress as Republicans pursing investigations of President Joe Biden and his family demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the allegations. They acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if the allegations were true.

Comer had subpoenaed the FBI last year for the so-called FD-1023 document as Republicans deepened their probe of Biden and his son Hunter ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Working alongside Comer, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released an unclassified document that Republicans at the time claimed was significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden. It added to information that had been widely aired during Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial involving Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election. After Grassley released the document, the White House said the claims in it had been “debunked for years.”
The impeachment inquiry into Biden over his son’s business dealings has lagged in the House, but the panel is pushing ahead with its work.
Hunter Biden is expected to appear before the committee later this month. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, said he had long warned the probe was based on “lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right and the air is out of their balloon.”
A judge set a detention hearing for Feb. 20 for Smirnov, who was arrested at the Las Vegas airport after arriving in the U.S. from overseas.


So no we learn this guy was working with Russian intelligence to spread lis and mislead informatio. Jim Jordan who famously said this 1023 was the most damning pice of evidence hey had is now trying to clarify nothing has changed. So despite the basis for their “investigation” having been a lie and with h no direct corroborating evidence they plan to continue with this sham. In the meantime, the government shuts down next week.
 

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(02-19-2024, 10:47 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Jim Biden has a lot of explaining to do based on Politico findings. Joe Biden could clear it all up immediately if innocent, just provide the loan he gave to his brother with the loan terms. Looks like influence peddling to me.

Carol Fox told the committee she filed a lawsuit against James, saying he made "representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-200k-payment-brother-scrutiny-report-failed-hospital-venture

Biden's $200K payment from brother receives renewed scrutiny after report detailing failed hospital venture
James Biden gave his brother the check in 2018 and labeled it 'loan repayment'
Brandon Gillespie By Brandon Gillespie Fox News
Published February 19, 2024 7:28pm EST


A heavily scrutinized $200,000 check that President Biden received from his brother, James Biden, in 2018 has resurfaced in a new report detailing how the latter leaned heavily on his family's influence to promote a now-defunct hospital chain targeted by the Department of Justice for fraud.

According to the report published Sunday by Politico, James centered his consulting work for Americore, a company that operated rural hospitals, on his leverage as a member of the Biden family, but those connections never materialized into more financing for the company before it ultimately collapsed.

Fox News Digital reported last year that [u]Americore loaned James approximately $600,000 on the promise that his name could bring in funding from the Middle East. On the same day, $200,000 of the $600,000 was transferred to James' personal bank account, prompting him to write Biden a $200,000 check from that same account.
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Politico said that its investigation of James' work for Americore "did not find that Joe Biden involved himself in the firm or took actions on its behalf," but that the president "did benefit indirectly from his brother's work with the firm," citing the $200,000 payment.

The White House has consistently denied that the money was anything other than repayment for a loan Biden previously gave James as a private citizen, and redacted bank records appear to show a $200,000 payment made to James just weeks earlier from a bank account belonging to Biden.

However, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have emphasized the payment, whether a loan or not, "aptly demonstrates one way [Biden] personally benefited from his family’s shady influence peddling of his name and their access to him."

"Even if the transaction in question was part of a loan agreement, we are troubled that Joe Biden’s ability to recoup funds depends on his brother’s cashing-in on the Biden brand," Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital in October.


James is expected to be interviewed as part of the committee's impeachment inquiry against Biden on Feb. 21.

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According to Politico, a number of former Americore executives said James, at the time, wanted to give Biden equity in the company, put him on its board, and promote its success in a future presidential campaign, none of which ever occurred due to the company's failure.

Americore is facing an ongoing $100 million federal prosecution after the DOJ found one of its hospitals allegedly undertook a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing the government for medically unnecessary lab tests.
However, James has not been accused of any crime.

In December, a Chapter 11 trustee for Americore testified before the Oversight Committee that the $600,000 loan was provided to James with no documentation in return for the promise of funding from the Middle East that never came.


Carol Fox told the committee she filed a lawsuit against James, saying he made "representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections."

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The suit was ultimately settled with James required to pay back $350,000 of the loan.

In his testimony, Jim Biden said repeatedly that Joe has never had anything to do with it his business,

Receiving a loan repayment is not illegal. Getting business deals because of your last name isn’t illegal.
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Every republican accusation is a confession.

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1760677098233143692?s=20

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(02-22-2024, 11:55 AM)GMDino Wrote: Every republican accusation is a confession.

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1760677098233143692?s=20

Yeah, it's systematic.

They flip whatever their party and leader are accused of,

and project it back on the other guy.

E.g. "Biden weaponized the FBI!" "Biden stole documents too!" "Biden made money off foreign governments!!!"
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(02-19-2024, 07:46 PM)Dill Wrote: About that 1023 form--apparently the informant's info has been "vetted."

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

Alexander Smirnov falsely reported to the FBI 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 in an indictment. Smirnov told his handler that an executive claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Smirnov in fact had only routine business dealings with the company in 2017 and made the bribery allegations after he “expressed bias” against Joe Biden while he was a presidential candidate.

The informant’s claims have been central to the Republican effort in Congress to investigate the president and his family, and helped spark what is now a House impeachment inquiry into Biden. An attorney for Hunter Biden, who is expected to give a deposition later this month, said the charges show the probe is “based on dishonest, uncredible allegations and witnesses.”

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, called for an end to the Biden impeachment inquiry.

Raskin said the allegations from the Republicans against Biden “have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories.” He called on Speaker Mike Johnson, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Republicans “to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry.”

Comer, R-Ky., downplayed the importance of the informant, who had figured centrally to the start of the probe.
“To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023,” Comer said in a statement, referring to the form documenting Smirnov’s allegations.
The chairman said the inquiry “is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony,” including interviews this week. He said the committee will continue to “follow the facts” and determine whether to proceed with articles of impeachment against Biden.
In the indictment, prosecutors say that Smirnov had contact with Burisma executives, but it was routine and actually took place in 2017, after President Barack Obama and Biden, his vice president, had left office -- when Biden would have had no ability to influence U.S. policy.

Smirnov “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 repeated some of the false claims when he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023 and changed his story about others and “promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials,” prosecutors said.
If convicted, Smirnov faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
The charges were filed by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who has separately charged Hunter Biden with firearm and tax violations.
The Burisma allegations became a flashpoint in Congress as Republicans pursing investigations of President Joe Biden and his family demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the allegations. They acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if the allegations were true.

Comer had subpoenaed the FBI last year for the so-called FD-1023 document as Republicans deepened their probe of Biden and his son Hunter ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Working alongside Comer, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released an unclassified document that Republicans at the time claimed was significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden. It added to information that had been widely aired during Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial involving Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election. After Grassley released the document, the White House said the claims in it had been “debunked for years.”
The impeachment inquiry into Biden over his son’s business dealings has lagged in the House, but the panel is pushing ahead with its work.
Hunter Biden is expected to appear before the committee later this month. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, said he had long warned the probe was based on “lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right and the air is out of their balloon.”
A judge set a detention hearing for Feb. 20 for Smirnov, who was arrested at the Las Vegas airport after arriving in the U.S. from overseas.

So now we are supposed to trust the F.B.I. and DOJ when they arrest a known informant, one Jamie Raskin was saying just months ago was a valued asset is now really a Russian spy. For the record, they were paying him to spy on Russians and was heavily paid since 2009.

I call BS, one more time our DOJ and FBI collude to try and convince one more time, the Russians did it. Most of us are not that stupid, we did not fall for the first time, or the second Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation and now a 3rd attempt, the man who filed a 1023 under oath and have us all kinds of reliable intel, is really a spy. If it were true (it is not), our FBI is a bunch of morons, but they are not.
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One more witness, a criminal like Bragg is using in NY has a lot to say in prison. He was also a partner of Hunter, Archer and almost Joe Biden.

More eye witness evidence Joe was involved. This guy feels telling the truth has put his life in danger, he has already been sexually assaulted by prison staff.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-allegedly-considered-joining-board-ccp-linked-company-witness-testifies-prison
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(02-23-2024, 08:04 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: So now we are supposed to trust the F.B.I. and DOJ when they arrest a known informant, one Jamie Raskin was saying just months ago was a valued asset is now really a Russian spy. For the record, they were paying him to spy on Russians and was heavily paid since 2009.

I call BS, one more time our DOJ and FBI collude to try and convince one more time, the Russians did it. Most of us are not that stupid, we did not fall for the first time, or the second Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation and now a 3rd attempt, the man who filed a 1023 under oath and have us all kinds of reliable intel, is really a spy. If it were true (it is not), our FBI is a bunch of morons, but they are not.

The FBI had already determined that the informant's tip wasn't credible. That is why nothing was charged.  It was Congressional Republicans who brought it to the light of day and claimed it was a credible piece of information.  In fact, they insisted that they receive a copy and they were the ones to publicize it.  hey based an entire impeachment inquiry around it.  They claimed it was the most damning piece of "evidence" they received, even though most people who were capable of actual research were easily able to show the timeline quoted in the report couldn't have happened as told. I remember you going on and on about how important this source was....so important they sent 5 whole FBI agents and lawyers to interview him.

REPUBLICANS politicized this informant by elevating his level of importance in their quest to find a crime, any crime, to pin on Joe Biden, as if being able to impeach Biden would somehow magically erase Trump's own misdeeds.  
 

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