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The GOP's Key Hunter Biden Witness Was Just Charged With Making It All Up
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Group of liars found to be lying.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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Group of liars succeeds in tying up real business with political theatre for years, distracting the population and dividing it further against each other, while letting the idiot take the fall.
I dunno man. Seems a little wordy. ,, 😆
Admittedly, it could use an edit for brevity lol
I got you "Some finally SLAMMED logic, irony is now broken."
The goppies did it again. That's the short version.
Well maybe one of them will go to jail for perjury this time? We can hope.
Wow that’s just a new level of wtf lol
Not really.
The GOP has been making shit up for decades. They throw it at the wall to see what sticks.
I appreciate that this headline isn't ambiguous like the others. "Witness charged with lying" you can make up whichever conclusion suits you with that and I think that's the intention.
"My source is that I made it the fuck up"
So does hunter get to sue/ indict them all now?
defamation seems clear!
Not to mention unwilling exposure of private parts
Sue, yes. Criminal indictment is the job of the prosecution, though.
No way guys! I never would have seen that coming /s
Imagine my shock that liars are lying.
What would shock me even more would be if all those lying cunts actually face consequences.
Is Gym trying not to cry in the thumbnail?
He is workshopping his facial expression for when he eventually has to have a press conference as he gets charged with allowing minors to get raped by a fellow coach.
Wah-Wah
Worth noting that the claims were made to the feds on form FD-1023 which is specifically for unverified information:
It's the federal equivalent of "Some... body once told me..."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Department of Justice has charged a former FBI informant — whose claims Republicans used to bolster allegations of a corrupt bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma — with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities.
The indictment, announced Thursday by Special Counsel David Weiss, alleges that Alexander Smirnov “falsely claimed” that during two business meetings in 2015 and/or 2016 “executives associated with Burisma, admitted to him that they hired [Hunter Biden] to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.’”
In truth and fact, the defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the administration when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence U.S. policy and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016.” The DOJ claims that Smirnov “transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations,” after expressing bias against Joe Biden’s candidacy for the presidency in 2020.
In September, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he would be directing members of his party to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
During the impeachment inquiry’s first hearing later that month, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee repeatedly referred to the claims made by the FBI informant as fact.
At the time, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters that the investigation may center around allegations that President Biden and his son profiteered from unethical deals with Burisma.
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