The news that an FBI informant lied about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings may not help his reelection campaign.
with two counts of making false statements on Thursday as part of special counsel David Weiss’s investigation. Smirnov alleged in 2020 that officials with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, paid the Biden pair $5 million each while Biden served as vice president.
“It is an undeniable fact that Republicans’ allegations against President Biden have always been a tissue of lies built on conspiracy theories,” he continued. “And I formally call on Speaker Johnson, Chairman Comer, and House Republicans to stop promoting this nonsense and end their doomed impeachment inquiry.”. “He is lying, and it should be dropped,” Biden said during a speech at the White House. “It’s been an outrageous effort from the beginning.
“I said months ago that first of all, this was pretty darn flimsy stuff on which to base any kind of inquiry given that it was a single anonymous source interview to the FBI,” Bowman said in an interview with the. “Does this undercut Republicans’ effort to try to do an impeachment investigation of the president? And of course it does; at least it would in a rational world.”
“It’s not clear whether this will move the needle politically for President Biden’s reelection campaign. I think certainly it addresses the legal issue here with the impeachment inquiry,” Bose said. “And that’s obviously important for President Biden and then for his son’s legal cases.”FILE – Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer speaks with ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin during the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, Thursday, Sept.
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