(R) James Comer’s witness in his sham impeachment of President Biden and his persecution of Hunter Biden was arrested today in Las Vegas’ Harry Reid Airport pursuant to an indictment returned by a California Grand Jury charging that the witness, Alexander Smirnov, lied to Congress during the hearings and created a false document alleging that he conferred with Russian energy Company Burisma in 2020 regarding alleged payouts to both The President and his son for political protection when he had, in fact, not been in touch with the company since 2017. The document was created to implicate Biden was being paid for influence while running for President.
“WASHINGTON ― An FBI informant has been indicted by a Justice Department special counsel for allegedly lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, was charged with two counts of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record for information he fed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Smirnov, described in the indictment as an FBI informant since 2010, was arrested Wednesday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after a federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned the indictment…
… Smirnov is accused of falsely claiming in June 2020 − when Joe Biden was a presidential candidate − that executives of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma admitted to him in 2015 and 2016 that they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”
Prosecutors say Smirnov also lied about Burisma executives telling him they paid $5 million apiece to then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter so that Hunter “will take care of all those issues through his dad.”
His remarks were a reference to a criminal investigation into Burisma by then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. But in reality, according to Weiss, Smirnov only had contact with executives in 2017, at the end of the Obama-Biden administration and after Shokin had already been fired in February 2016.
“In other words,” the 37-page indictment reads, Smirnov’s involvement with Burisma came when then-Vice President Joe Biden “had no ability to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office.”
Comer, of course, tried to play up the arrest and indictment of his star witness as no big deal, the lying and creation of false documents to the F.B.I was just a small part of his vast investigation.
MediasTouch on and friends on Twitter call BS:
Significantly, Alexander Smirnov was responsible for many of the statements House Republicans have relied upon when pushing the impeachment inquiry against President Biden, including the FD-1023 form that was hyped by the GOP and right-wing media. https://t.co/4LDvRi0cRp
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 15, 2024
Resign, Comer. You are a disgrace.
And who and what members of Congress will this informant flip on. Interesting.
— Sandy (@sandiechill) February 15, 2024
🙏🙏🙏 Jim Jordan, Jim Jordan, Jim Jordan…
No wonder the House Republicans wanted to go on a 2-week vacation!🤦🏾♂️
— Jonathan (@JonathanBGood_) February 15, 2024
Yup.
Republican lies #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy pic.twitter.com/GxxrJ0gFrw
— 🌻Justice⚖Now 🌟🇺🇸 (@ChrisJustice01) February 15, 2024
🤣🤣🤣
— Meidas Samantha🟧🟦 🌈Ⓜ️Ⓜ️🏳️🌈🇺🇦❤️ (@Meidas_Sam2732) February 15, 2024
😂😂😂
The DOJ needs to indict Comer for lying about Joe & Hunter Biden, he knew the witness was lying, yet let him testify anyway & then knowingly released his testimony without verifying the evidence
Comer should be indicted as his co-defendant for allowing him to lie & releasing it.— Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice ! (@WMatire) February 15, 2024
Yup.
This is fabulous news. Poor lil’ Jimmy must not be sure if he’s a comer or a goner after this little bomb 💣 dropped
— Shaken not Stirred (@Arlene21286) February 15, 2024
I hope he is shi##ing his pants.
Good grief republicans are pathetic.
— Alison 🇺🇸🇳🇿🏳️🌈 (@AlisonKateCartr) February 15, 2024
Ain’t they tho?
Who wants to bet that Comer, Jordan and Speaker Moses Johnson are engaged in a flop sweat flop conference call right now?
Comer—a sterling example of a guy who will have to be screwed into the ground when he dies, merely because he’ll be too crooked to fit in a casket.
RW are worthless POS