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The Department of Justice bringing two counts of lying to the FBI against the informant who accused Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of corruption is the latest bad news in what’s been a bad year for congressional Republicans. That informant’s claims, which DOJ says were false, was the linchpin for House Republicans’ crusade against President Biden. That witness was key to Republicans’ plan to impeach President Joe Biden for the wrongdoing they’ve imagined.
According to the indictment, Smirnov was warned repeatedly that he had to “provide truthful information to the FBI,” but he still provided “false derogatory information” about the Bidens in June 2020, that is, after the elder Biden was the Democratic nominee for president. That “false derogatory information” includes the claim about father and son getting $5 million each.
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