Another good day for the House GOP members. Their prized "source" for corruption allegations against the Bidens has been charged with fabricating that evidence by the FBI.
GOP prized informant against Hunter Biden now charged with lying under oath
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Lying under oath?
Looks like Trump found his VP running mate!
Looks like Trump found his VP running mate!
I'm sure it will be on Fox tonight "the corrupt Biden DOJ...witchhunt...blah blah blah"
Republicans are attempting to set the loser bar so high that it will never be hurdled.
Shockingly, Fox didn't really cover this at all....I mean, I could see them blame it on a deep state coverup. Wait, is Mitchy commented on this yet???
I wonder if it is posible for Comer and Gym Jordan to be anymore incompetent. This is like the fifth or sixth time where they promised big news/witnesses/evidence about the "Biden crime family," only for it to evaporate into the ether. This is just downright embarrassing after all the big promises of showing corruption and influence peddling. But you aren't going to hear Hannity or Ingrham backing up and setting this record straight.
Fox News and Mitchell Silent on Bogus Hunter Biden Witness It Hyped Constantly:
When Russian businessman Alexander Smirnov landed at the Las Vegas airport on Valentine’s Day, the FBI was waiting for him. Since 2010, he had worked with the agency as an informant, providing intel on what the Feds described as “various criminal investigations” — the most infamous of which was the special-counsel inquiry into Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad. Smirnov claimed to have explosive information revealing that Joe Biden had taken a cut of his son’s considerable payments as a consultant in exchange for influencing an investigation in Ukraine. But federal prosecutors say Smirnov strayed from the truth: On Thursday, they charged him with making false statements and obstructing the yearslong investigation of the president’s son.
Frequent viewers of conservative media are well acquainted with Smirnov. Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity and TERB righties like Mitchell have said that his allegations are key to what they describe as the “Biden crime family” — the narrative that Hunter Biden accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the energy company Burisma to give to his father in exchange for then-VP Biden making a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma go away. According to the watchdog group Media Matters, Hannity alone featured 85 segments in 2023 on the allegations. (Republican politicians also trusted the source: Last July, Representative James Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley released an FBI record detailing the unsubstantiated allegations, describing Smirnov as a “trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme.”)
Fox News viewers have heard plenty about the lesser charges Hunter Biden is facing, including possession of a firearm as a drug user and tax evasion. But after prosecutors provided evidence that the corruption allegation was false, there was no mention of the story on Hannity on Thursday — or anywhere in Fox News’s prime-time programming, for that matter. (Chuck Grassley’s office has also stood by his public release of the unsubstantiated allegations.)
In the 37-page indictment, prosecutors state that Smirnov lied about his claims of Joe Biden’s criminal activity. The indictment states that, in June 2020, Smirnov told his FBI handlers that he had two meetings in 2015 in which Burisma executives told him that they hired Hunter Biden as a consultant to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Smirnov claimed that Burisma paid Hunter Biden $10 million for his trouble.
But prosecutors state that Smirnov never provided any evidence for this explosive allegation. A meeting Smirnov described taking place in 2015 in which he said he first heard about Biden-related corruption never occurred: Prosecutors found that Smirnov’s first meeting with Burisma happened in 2017, after Biden had left office. “The Defendant’s story to the FBI was a fabrication,” the indictment states. “An amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts that had actually occurred but at a later date than he claimed and for the purpose of pitching Burisma on [Smirnov’s] services and products, not for discussing bribes to [Joe Biden] when he was in office.”
“For months, we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts,” Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement on Thursday. “We were right, and the air is out of their balloon.” Addressing reporters on Friday, Joe Biden stated that the allegations have “been an outrageous effort from the beginning.”
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But TERB righties like Mitchell will soon be providing proof from the "Non-Fake" media like Twitter - X, NewsMax, or The Rebel. We just have to wait for it!!
When Russian businessman Alexander Smirnov landed at the Las Vegas airport on Valentine’s Day, the FBI was waiting for him. Since 2010, he had worked with the agency as an informant, providing intel on what the Feds described as “various criminal investigations” — the most infamous of which was the special-counsel inquiry into Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad. Smirnov claimed to have explosive information revealing that Joe Biden had taken a cut of his son’s considerable payments as a consultant in exchange for influencing an investigation in Ukraine. But federal prosecutors say Smirnov strayed from the truth: On Thursday, they charged him with making false statements and obstructing the yearslong investigation of the president’s son.
Frequent viewers of conservative media are well acquainted with Smirnov. Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity and TERB righties like Mitchell have said that his allegations are key to what they describe as the “Biden crime family” — the narrative that Hunter Biden accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the energy company Burisma to give to his father in exchange for then-VP Biden making a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma go away. According to the watchdog group Media Matters, Hannity alone featured 85 segments in 2023 on the allegations. (Republican politicians also trusted the source: Last July, Representative James Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley released an FBI record detailing the unsubstantiated allegations, describing Smirnov as a “trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme.”)
Fox News viewers have heard plenty about the lesser charges Hunter Biden is facing, including possession of a firearm as a drug user and tax evasion. But after prosecutors provided evidence that the corruption allegation was false, there was no mention of the story on Hannity on Thursday — or anywhere in Fox News’s prime-time programming, for that matter. (Chuck Grassley’s office has also stood by his public release of the unsubstantiated allegations.)
In the 37-page indictment, prosecutors state that Smirnov lied about his claims of Joe Biden’s criminal activity. The indictment states that, in June 2020, Smirnov told his FBI handlers that he had two meetings in 2015 in which Burisma executives told him that they hired Hunter Biden as a consultant to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Smirnov claimed that Burisma paid Hunter Biden $10 million for his trouble.
But prosecutors state that Smirnov never provided any evidence for this explosive allegation. A meeting Smirnov described taking place in 2015 in which he said he first heard about Biden-related corruption never occurred: Prosecutors found that Smirnov’s first meeting with Burisma happened in 2017, after Biden had left office. “The Defendant’s story to the FBI was a fabrication,” the indictment states. “An amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts that had actually occurred but at a later date than he claimed and for the purpose of pitching Burisma on [Smirnov’s] services and products, not for discussing bribes to [Joe Biden] when he was in office.”
“For months, we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts,” Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement on Thursday. “We were right, and the air is out of their balloon.” Addressing reporters on Friday, Joe Biden stated that the allegations have “been an outrageous effort from the beginning.”
Fox News Silent on Bogus Hunter Biden Witness It Hyped Constantly
Alexander Smirnov was a mainstay of coverage about the supposed “Biden Crime Family,” but his arrest for lying to Feds drew crickets.
nymag.com
But TERB righties like Mitchell will soon be providing proof from the "Non-Fake" media like Twitter - X, NewsMax, or The Rebel. We just have to wait for it!!
The problem with your post is that you assume that lying under oath is frowned upon in what today passes for the GOP. You actually assume that the proceedings have something to do with truth or facts or evidence. They are simply about dirtying up Joe for the benefit of the chosen one. Want proof? just read any of mitchys posts or threads.Another good day for the House GOP members. Their prized "source" for corruption allegations against the Bidens has been charged with fabricating that evidence by the FBI.
The other sad thing is that they get away with it. Democrats just sit and watch instead of going for the jugular.
Holy shit! You can't make this stuff up. Oh yes you can, it's Merica yall.
America has become one of those jokes that writes itself.
So true, the MAGA GOP and right-wing media have just about abandoned all pretenses of truth or facts. They have learned from their orange god-king, just go out there and spew a firehouse of lies, then do it again. Their whole existence is to please the folks who live in the right-wing media echo chamber.
The actual results don't matter. When you're pitching to people like Addict, Oracle and Mitchell, the mere cloud of suspicion and endless denigration of the targets is the emotional release that they need.
I used to mainly watch Fox when I came to North America in the late 90s. But after basic, simple lies, misinformation, the same people being shown to be full of shit time and time again...had to stop. How does one stay with a source that is so routinely deceptive? I still watch now and then until I feel sick. The holes in the logic and misdirection are just too much to take more than 10 minutes.
That's a very good point. And let's face it, Fox and other right-wing media went all in on this story, with Hannity apparently having something like 85 segments on Biden corruption and this whistleblower....but I don't think he's actually covered the fact that it ALL fell apart. So, if you're in that right-wing echo chamber, you probably don't know about it. I don't see Addict, Oracle and Mitchy talking about this, it's like they just want to ignore or forget it happened....
