Oh, SNAP!
Seriously, the writers are getting sloppy. “Smirnov?”
In Soviet America, Special Counsel charge YOU!
I’ll just note that Weiss was appointed by Bill Barr and, formerly, prosecuted a guy who was using illegal means to fundraise for the Biden campaign.
Hunter Biden is gonna get it! Any day, now!
For those who want a more in-depth report on this (not at all stunning and entirely predictable) development, here’s a gift link from the NYT:
From the article:
Mr. Smirnov’s motivation for lying, prosecutors wrote, appears to have been political. During the 2020 campaign, he sent his F.B.I. handler “a series of messages expressing bias” against Joseph R. Biden Jr., including texts, replete with typos and misspellings, boasting that he had information that would put him in jail.
I guess the only thing that shocks me is that Trump-appointed special counsel David Weiss brought the charges.
Pffffttttt goes the “Biden Crime Family” meme.
……isn’t that something he should have been doing?
Agreed. And the pathetic Comer reaction from the article you shared is basically “This is the FBI’s fault for not telling us this guy was a liar” wah wah wah. Dumb shit Republicans.
Everyone has been telling them it’s bullshit for the past several years. They didn’t need the FBI for that.
Anyone who took the time to parse the timeline and context for what was being asserted could instantly reason that the whole story was garbage and the guy was a liar.
Beyond pathetic.
I think his hand was forced a bit by discovery in the Hunter Biden prosecution.
The 1023 at the bottom of this has a lot of fingerprints (metaphorically) on it, including Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani, and even David Weiss.
I skimmed the document to find some 1023 thingy and couldn’t. Some help with what you’re referring to please? Thank you.
Wow, awesome catch! I should say it was definitely forced a bit! That letter is pretty damning. Thanks for sharing it.
When I think of how the Biden family has been made to suffer over all this garbage, it makes my blood boil.
But does any of this negate the existence of his laptop which had some dick picks and maybe a picture of him smoking something that might’ve been crack?
I meant the bottom of the whole Hunter Biden mess not at the bottom of the page I linked to.
Today, a federal court unsealed a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California charging Alexander Smirnov, 43, with making a false statement, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and creating a false and fictitious record, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519, for statements he made that were recorded in an official record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) known as a Form 1023.
This 1023. 
Same 1023 Grassley revealed last summer.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/politics/chuck-grassley-fbi-document/index.html
Same 1023 that Scott Brady testified about last October.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/politics/us-attorney-biden-bribery-tip-scrutiny/index.html
It’s the same document that pretty much everyone knew was bullshit in 2020, but has since been used as an excuse to go after the Bidens.
Pathetically pathetic if that is an actual thing. But Comer, like all MAGAts, can’t accept responsibility for their own stupidity so gotta find someone to blame.
According to one article I came across, Comer says that they’re not basing their findings on the 1023 since they have mounds and mounds of delicious coleslaw other evidence that prove beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic that the Biden family is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
It’s in the packets, right? I’ve heard the magic evidence is always in the packets.
They can’t share the mounds of delicious evidence yet because… because… well they just can’t yet.
Two. Weeks.
Really, you’ve got to trust Rudy Giuliani to protect the chain of evidence. When you think of Rudy, what words come to mind? Honesty. Sober. Stable.
And a Russian agent named Smirnov? Very unlikely that he wants to create lies to damage Biden in any way and compromise the United States support of Ukraine. Right? That’s just too hard to fathom. Russia is our good friend! Just ask the Republicans!
Edit: LAPTOP! LAPTOP! HUNTER HAD A LAPTOP! THIS MEANS HE IS GUILTY!
Problem is, the packets keep hitting pockets.
I could have refrained. I chose not to.
Should Hannity be investigated, as it is now clear that he was simply acting as a mouthpiece for a Russian spy’s obvious lies? Are there no repercussions for someone who aids a foreign government who is trying to harm the country by spreading falsehoods?