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.

  • SolidGrue
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    907 months ago

    Nope. We all saw it.

    Streisand it harder though. 🍿

    • @shalafi
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      297 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
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    557 months ago

    Fuckin Russian cucks. The whole GOP.

  • Flying Squid
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    257 months ago

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

    • @Passerby6497
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      27 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?”

  • @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

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

    fixed

    • Flying Squid
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      67 months ago

      I believe you mean…

      (Bet you people thought I forgot.)

      • Admiral Patrick
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        7 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.

        • Flying Squid
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          37 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    197 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”

  • NotAFuckingBot
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    167 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    137 months ago

    Jim Jordan is such a treasonous twat.

    How long until the DOJ charges this flaccid twat waffle?