> Special counsel David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who was chosen to lead the investigation into Hunter Biden by Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced charges against 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov on Thursday for allegedly making false statements and manufacturing false records concerning Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.
I’d put money on it that they knew it was fabricated.
It’s been bemusing to watch Comer of accusing the Bidens of thing Comer has done with his family.
Put every one of these lying gasbags on trial for elevating disproven conspiracies and false allegations. Every. Single. One.
If they ***added*** to the problem, they ***are*** the problem. Lock. Them. Up.
The people who need to hear this will refuse to hear this.
I got banned from the conservative sub for mentioning the Kushner 2 Billion dollar Saudi investment when all they would talk about is Hunter and Joe Biden.
My how the turntables have turned
Good.
Credibility, now a defunct concept, should be reintroduced to society. I know it is a hard ask, but we collectively need it. Oh, and some honesty, grace, humility, respect, and attempts at understanding wouldn’t be bad either.
Comer wanted McConnell’s Senate seat and now he goes to the graveyard for disgraced Republican congressmen.
This shit needs to be stopped. We can’t function as a country like this and I know this is what they want but the rest of us don’t. They aren’t the only one’s in this country and I am disgusted by what our country as a whole, has to put up with. So much goes on in everyone’s life, we don’t need this dangerous disease to exist in our government. If you’re not already, Register and help someone else who might need it and VOTE!
Oh please let this be true.
These fuckers know they are lying and should be called out for it.
Comer in particular is up to no good and I hope his ass fries for it.
Good. Fuck these guys. I hope Gaetz gets 20 years pretty soon too.
back the lying orange cheeto and this is what you get. happens like 100% of the time. Cohen tried to warn everyone.
*What did Comer know and when did he know it?*
Square face lier! Love this for him.
In Soviet Russia Lies Tell You!
Bye, Felicia
My my, how the turntables…
Lock him up
Republican Representative James Comer is facing calls for an investigation of his efforts to impeach President Joe Biden after a key witness in the probe was charged with lying to the FBI.
Special counsel David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who was chosen to lead the investigation into Hunter Biden by Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced charges against 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov on Thursday for allegedly making false statements and manufacturing false records concerning Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Smirnov’s claims that Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, had each received a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian energy company Burisma was a key factor in the effort to impeach the president launched by House Republicans last year.
Smirnov made that claim as a “confidential human source” in an FD-1023—a document the FBI uses to record information from such sources.
Thursday’s indictment called Smirnov’s claims “a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts.”
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Comer, who is chair of the Oversight Committee, was criticized by Democrats following news of the indictment with at least one member of the House suggesting he has questions to answer.
Many social media users on X, formerly Twitter, were quick to call for Comer to face investigation, while his Democratic critics suggested that the Republican has questions to answer.
Newsweek has reached out to Comer’s office via email outside of office hours for comment.
“When did James comer know this was false and how long did he conceal that from the American people?” asked Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz during a CNN interview on Thursday.
“Are you telling me he just found out through the indictment or has he known all along or at least for a period of time that this 1023 form was made up? Those are real questions we need to get to the bottom [of],” the Democrat said.
The Democrat did not directly call for a probe and with a GOP majority in the House it seems unlikely that Comer could face investigation. Nonetheless, other Democrats also strongly criticized Comer.
“James Comer’s lead informant in his sham impeachment against POTUS was just indicted for lying and making up his claims,” Democratic Representative Robert Garcia of California wrote on X.
“We demand Comer apologize to the President and end this political stunt immediately. What a joke,” he added.
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the Oversight Committee, issued a statement demanding an end to the impeachment inquiry and called the probe “fraudulent.”
“Special Counsel Weiss’s investigation is just the most recent to debunk the Ukraine-Burisma conspiracy theory at the heart of this fraudulent impeachment inquiry,” Raskin said.
“It is an undeniable fact that Republicans’ allegations against President Biden have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories, and I formally call on Speaker Johnson, Chairman Comer, and House Republicans to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry,” he added.
“James Comer’s star witness against Joe Biden was just charged by the TRUMP-APPOINTED Special Counsel with making false claims,” wrote Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett in a post on X. “THIS is the informant who provided the core ‘evidence’ in the GOP impeachment investigation. According to a federal grand jury, he made it all up.”
In a statement on Thursday, Comer denied that Smirnov’s claims or his FD-1023 were central to the impeachment probe.
“To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023. It is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family’s business dealings,” Comer said.
“When asked by the committee about their confidence in the confidential human source, the FBI told the committee the confidential human source was credible and trusted, had worked with the FBI for over a decade, and had been paid six figures.”
The Turn Tables.
The big question is: Why did he lie? Was he paid? Was he promised something in exchange? Position in Trump’s administration if he gets elected?
Why it is potential. Investigate. Wtf
Would love to see him squirm under investigation
For all that talk they stirred up about fucking around and finding out, Republicans sure are finding out a lot lately.
I love this for him! I really really REALLY would like to have seen his face when the AP News story broke late afternoon yesterday. Your STAR witness that hinges EVERYTHING on impeachment of Biden was a fucking crook and a liar.
Will MAGA and Comer come clean and apologize or will they spin some bullshit and quadruple down on their insanity?
Over 180 Republican terrorists should be jailed for January 6th!
That would make my week if this lying prick got held up in front of a judge and had to spend time in jail. Oh my God I’d throw a fucking party.
If he brought a source to court and didn’t vet him or his story, then he is culpable. No? Not sure what the actual law is, but you’d think that bringing forth a witness with a story that isn’t corroborated is pretty crappy lawyering, also if it’s the ONLY piece of evidence that you’ve been able to scratch up you’d think you’d want it to be as iron clad as you can. My guess is that he knew and just hoped that it wouldn’t get looked into further. (all in the name of a helping a guy who will say that you are just a low level coffee errand boy the moment you become unusable). Really makes you wonder about these folks.
He knew.
They ALL knew.
So Comer has now used a Russian spy and a Chinese spy as their “sources”?
Real quality right der. I remember when the GOP didn’t trust those countries. However MAGA loves them. Oh how the Rep tides have turned. That party is lost!
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> Special counsel David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who was chosen to lead the investigation into Hunter Biden by Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced charges against 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov on Thursday for allegedly making false statements and manufacturing false records concerning Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.
I’d put money on it that they knew it was fabricated.
It’s been bemusing to watch Comer of accusing the Bidens of thing Comer has done with his family.
Put every one of these lying gasbags on trial for elevating disproven conspiracies and false allegations. Every. Single. One.
If they ***added*** to the problem, they ***are*** the problem. Lock. Them. Up.
The people who need to hear this will refuse to hear this.
I got banned from the conservative sub for mentioning the Kushner 2 Billion dollar Saudi investment when all they would talk about is Hunter and Joe Biden.
My how the turntables have turned
Good.
Credibility, now a defunct concept, should be reintroduced to society. I know it is a hard ask, but we collectively need it. Oh, and some honesty, grace, humility, respect, and attempts at understanding wouldn’t be bad either.
Comer wanted McConnell’s Senate seat and now he goes to the graveyard for disgraced Republican congressmen.
Couldn’t happen to a better dude.
This isn’t even the first joke of a witness that was backed by Comer. Before Alexander Smirnov, Comer also claimed Gal Luft was a credible witness until he found out [Gal Luft was indicted and was on the run from the DoJ](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/politics/gal-luft-hunter-biden-indictment-justice-department.html).
Everything Comer and the Republicans are claiming about Biden and Hunter Biden is a lie. All they do is [lie, lie, and lie, just like their dear leader, Donald Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/).
This shit needs to be stopped. We can’t function as a country like this and I know this is what they want but the rest of us don’t. They aren’t the only one’s in this country and I am disgusted by what our country as a whole, has to put up with. So much goes on in everyone’s life, we don’t need this dangerous disease to exist in our government. If you’re not already, Register and help someone else who might need it and VOTE!
Oh please let this be true.
These fuckers know they are lying and should be called out for it.
Comer in particular is up to no good and I hope his ass fries for it.
Good. Fuck these guys. I hope Gaetz gets 20 years pretty soon too.
back the lying orange cheeto and this is what you get. happens like 100% of the time. Cohen tried to warn everyone.
*What did Comer know and when did he know it?*
Square face lier! Love this for him.
In Soviet Russia Lies Tell You!
Bye, Felicia
My my, how the turntables…
Lock him up
Republican Representative James Comer is facing calls for an investigation of his efforts to impeach President Joe Biden after a key witness in the probe was charged with lying to the FBI.
Special counsel David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who was chosen to lead the investigation into Hunter Biden by Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced charges against 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov on Thursday for allegedly making false statements and manufacturing false records concerning Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Smirnov’s claims that Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, had each received a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian energy company Burisma was a key factor in the effort to impeach the president launched by House Republicans last year.
Smirnov made that claim as a “confidential human source” in an FD-1023—a document the FBI uses to record information from such sources.
Thursday’s indictment called Smirnov’s claims “a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts.”
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Comer, who is chair of the Oversight Committee, was criticized by Democrats following news of the indictment with at least one member of the House suggesting he has questions to answer.
Many social media users on X, formerly Twitter, were quick to call for Comer to face investigation, while his Democratic critics suggested that the Republican has questions to answer.
Newsweek has reached out to Comer’s office via email outside of office hours for comment.
“When did James comer know this was false and how long did he conceal that from the American people?” asked Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz during a CNN interview on Thursday.
“Are you telling me he just found out through the indictment or has he known all along or at least for a period of time that this 1023 form was made up? Those are real questions we need to get to the bottom [of],” the Democrat said.
The Democrat did not directly call for a probe and with a GOP majority in the House it seems unlikely that Comer could face investigation. Nonetheless, other Democrats also strongly criticized Comer.
“James Comer’s lead informant in his sham impeachment against POTUS was just indicted for lying and making up his claims,” Democratic Representative Robert Garcia of California wrote on X.
“We demand Comer apologize to the President and end this political stunt immediately. What a joke,” he added.
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the Oversight Committee, issued a statement demanding an end to the impeachment inquiry and called the probe “fraudulent.”
“Special Counsel Weiss’s investigation is just the most recent to debunk the Ukraine-Burisma conspiracy theory at the heart of this fraudulent impeachment inquiry,” Raskin said.
“It is an undeniable fact that Republicans’ allegations against President Biden have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories, and I formally call on Speaker Johnson, Chairman Comer, and House Republicans to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry,” he added.
“James Comer’s star witness against Joe Biden was just charged by the TRUMP-APPOINTED Special Counsel with making false claims,” wrote Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett in a post on X. “THIS is the informant who provided the core ‘evidence’ in the GOP impeachment investigation. According to a federal grand jury, he made it all up.”
In a statement on Thursday, Comer denied that Smirnov’s claims or his FD-1023 were central to the impeachment probe.
“To be clear, the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023. It is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family’s business dealings,” Comer said.
“When asked by the committee about their confidence in the confidential human source, the FBI told the committee the confidential human source was credible and trusted, had worked with the FBI for over a decade, and had been paid six figures.”
The Turn Tables.
The big question is: Why did he lie? Was he paid? Was he promised something in exchange? Position in Trump’s administration if he gets elected?
Why it is potential. Investigate. Wtf
Would love to see him squirm under investigation
For all that talk they stirred up about fucking around and finding out, Republicans sure are finding out a lot lately.
I love this for him! I really really REALLY would like to have seen his face when the AP News story broke late afternoon yesterday. Your STAR witness that hinges EVERYTHING on impeachment of Biden was a fucking crook and a liar.
Will MAGA and Comer come clean and apologize or will they spin some bullshit and quadruple down on their insanity?
Over 180 Republican terrorists should be jailed for January 6th!
That would make my week if this lying prick got held up in front of a judge and had to spend time in jail. Oh my God I’d throw a fucking party.
If he brought a source to court and didn’t vet him or his story, then he is culpable. No? Not sure what the actual law is, but you’d think that bringing forth a witness with a story that isn’t corroborated is pretty crappy lawyering, also if it’s the ONLY piece of evidence that you’ve been able to scratch up you’d think you’d want it to be as iron clad as you can. My guess is that he knew and just hoped that it wouldn’t get looked into further. (all in the name of a helping a guy who will say that you are just a low level coffee errand boy the moment you become unusable). Really makes you wonder about these folks.
He knew.
They ALL knew.
So Comer has now used a Russian spy and a Chinese spy as their “sources”?
Real quality right der. I remember when the GOP didn’t trust those countries. However MAGA loves them. Oh how the Rep tides have turned. That party is lost!