Jim Jordan & Jim Comer's "star witness" Against Biden - Alexander Smirnov - has pled GUILTY

[CousinIT]

Jimm Jordan and Jim Comer's "star witness" Alexander Smirnov has pled GUILTY to lying to the FBI about a Joe Biden "bribery" scheme with Burisma.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty-bidens-fbi-informant/

https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3ld54h6m7ns2o

[BoRaGard]

1. republicons will rot in Hell for Bearing False Witness

Why do republicons routinely piss all over the teachings of their Bible?

[Autumn]

3. Because they don't believe in the bible. They just use it.

[Martin Eden]

13. They thump it. Or hold it aloft for a photo op. Upside down.

Has there ever been a bigger and worse bunch of hypocrites?

[johnnyfins]

14. True these posts

If you believe, and are an ACTUAL christian, you are now waiting for all of the imagery of the book of revelation.

[Dock_Yard]

2. ... and the Trash takes itself out.

But this doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.

I just entered my Eighth Decade on the planet. As every successive decade (except the 1st, clearly) has passed into my personal history, I have incrementally firmed up my awareness of the absence of morality in ever-expanding MAJOR segments of the nation's population. It's been very depressing to have this fact sink into me so thoroughly. This trend will never reverse itself, nor can it become reversed by enacting laws. I wish I could leave to my kids an IMPROVING situation, with the US really becoming "more perfect" ... but I have realized that I cannot.

[moondust]

4. Will taxpayers get a refund

for all their dishonest waste and abuse?

[FakeNoose]

5. Smirnov was an obvious liar from the getgo

Are Jordan and Comer really THAT stupid?

[Dave says]

8. Yeah they really are that stupid. That's beside being vile, immoral, and just plain ugly.

[dchill]

10. That says it for me!

[Celerity]

9. Does the pope shit in the woods?

Are Jordan and Comer really THAT stupid?

[dchill]

11. Does a bear sleep on Dolly Parton's back?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Key Republican source, accused of lying about the Bidens, pleads guilty

Alexander Smirnov may not be a household name, but his new guilty plea represents a stunning fiasco for some prominent Republicans in Congress

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/key-republican-source-accused-lying-bidens-pleads-guilty-rcna183988

It’s easy to forget why, exactly, many House Republicans talked about trying to impeach President Joe Biden earlier this year, but the weird crusade was rooted in a scurrilous accusation: The Democrat, GOP officials claimed, was the beneficiary of a weird Ukrainian bribery scheme.

The story never really made any sense, but several congressional Republicans nevertheless took the claims seriously — and when pressed to justify their efforts, they pointed to an informant who brought the bribery allegations to the attention of the FBI.

Whatever became of that informant? I’m glad you asked. The New York Times reported:

A former F.B.I. informant accused of fabricating a claim that President Biden and his son Hunter were each paid a $5 million bribe by a Ukrainian oligarch has agreed to plead guilty to a range of federal charges, according to a court filing on Thursday. Alexander Smirnov, a profiteer, fixer and gossip based in Las Vegas, reached a deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden, David C. Weiss, that could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, according to the filing in federal court in California.

The trouble began in earnest in February when Smirnov was indicted for providing “false derogatory information” to the FBI about Biden and his son. The charges stemmed from the special counsel investigation led by David Weiss, a Trump-appointed prosecutor......

Rep. Jim Jordan, for example, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is on record publicly declaring that he was relying largely on Smirnov’s claims as part of his pursuit of Biden. The Ohio Republican specifically told Fox News in January that the allegations raised by Smirnov represented “the heart” of the GOP’s case against the president.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the GOP chair of the House Oversight Committee, made similar comments, declaring last year that Smirnov’s claims were “a very crucial piece of our investigation.”

At least one House Republican conceded that the party was warned not to take these uncorroborated anti-Biden allegations seriously, but Jordan and Comer, among others, ignored the advice and ran with the claims that have since collapsed.

In the GOP’s impeachment crusade, the real “scandal” isn’t what Joe Biden did, it’s what his accusers did.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Trump will pardon him to keep him quiet

He wouldn't want a pissed-off underling blabbing about whose idea the lying to the FBI was ...

[IcyPeas]

12. So when's Biden's press conference lambasting Comer and Jordan et al.?

I'd love to see him do this with many other Dems standing with him.

C'mon man.

Karine Jean Pierre also should also berate the press tomorrow and make sure they all report on it.

I'll wait.

[johnnyfins]

15. I thought Gym had a punchable face

But Comer has a target on his jaw. WTF.

[Bozvotros]

16. GOP MOTTO: Fool me once, shame on you

Fool me ten thousand times? No prob, I'm shameless.

[UTUSN]

17. Knr