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Republicans Rush to Scrub Mention of FBI Informant in Impeachment Letter (newrepublic.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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House Republicans are quietly trying to remove traces of indicted ex–FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in their Biden impeachment quest.

House Republicans quietly deleted a reference to their epic fail of an FBI informant in a letter to a potential witness in the somehow-still-ongoing impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

Republicans have hinged their Biden investigation on accusations from a supposedly credible but confidential FBI source that Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch. But the Justice Department has since charged that source, former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, with making false statements and revealed his accusation may have been Russian disinformation.

As a result, House Republicans have begun to scrub mentions of Smirnov from their imploding investigation. Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and Oversight Chair James Comer, who have spearheaded the probe, sent a letter Tuesday to former State Department official Amos Hochstein requesting an interview. The GOP has accused Hochstein of advising Hunter Biden when the latter served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

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[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 90 points 8 months ago

Nope. We all saw it.

Streisand it harder though. 🍿

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

You saw it. I saw it. Doesn't matter.

The media conservatives consume will not cover it (most likely by far) or make it a conspiracy.

Facts do not matter any longer.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago

Fuckin Russian cucks. The whole GOP.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

"We now have zero pieces of evidence to justify impeachment. Therefore, we must impeach."

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"How else are we going to convince people impeachment is just a meaningless political cudgel to lower the impact of cheeto's treason if we don't intentionally turn the impeachment process into a meaningless political cudgel?"

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As a result, Russian plants in the House of Representatives have begun to scrub mentions of Smirnov from their imploding investigation

fixed

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Russian operatives really

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks, it was early. I thought about spies, but that didn't feel quite right.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Cue the circus music...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I believe you mean...

(Bet you people thought I forgot.)

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You should see if the LW admins will just add that as a custom emoji for you. lol. It's gotten some well earned mileage.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

We're a three-person family on a single income (not mine), but if they did that, I'd sell some plasma or something and give the money to the instance.

[-] ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net 19 points 8 months ago

I still can't believe the major informant that they relied on, that turned out to be a Russian agent, was literally named "Alexander Smirnov"

[-] dasgoat@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I vodkan't believe it's Smirnov

[-] jawsua@lemmy.one 3 points 8 months ago

The Republicans got Smirnov Iced

[-] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Keep hiding your crimes, you fucking scum...while you think you can.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Jim Jordan is such a treasonous twat.

How long until the DOJ charges this flaccid twat waffle?

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Oops 🫢

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 points 8 months ago

Epic fail 👁️👁️

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Fuck these two morons.

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