GOP’s Biden impeachment witness told feds he got stories from Russian officials
The increasingly-discredited star witness for the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden admitted to federal authorities that he had ties to high-ranking Russian officials, according to a memo from special counsel David Weiss filed on Tuesday.
“[Alexander] Smirnov’s contacts with Russian officials who are affiliated with Russian intelligence services are not benign,” the memo said.
“During his custodial interview on February 14, Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about [Hunter Biden],” the memo said.
During his interview with the FBI Smirnov also reported numerous meetings with a particularly dangerous-sounding character: a high-ranking Russian government official that Smirnov described as someone who “controls two groups of individuals tasked with carrying out assassination efforts in a third-party country, a Russian representative to another country, and as someone with ties to a particular Russian intelligence service.” [Continue reading…]
Jim Jordan said recently the "most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source"
Asked Jordan this AM about indictment charging the source made up Biden bribery scheme and had told FBI that Russian intel was behind claim pic.twitter.com/5CpjYaPZNR
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 21, 2024
Rep. @danielsgoldman on CNN:
“Wittingly or unwittingly, House Republicans have been acting as an agent or asset of Russian intelligence for Vladimir Putin.”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 21, 2024