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Hm. It seems Russia has been faking stories about Hunter Biden and the Republicans have been lapping them up and now they can’t any more. What a normal and healthy situation.
Representative Jim Jordan seems to be struggling with the realization that Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden appears to be founded on a bed of lies peddled by the Russian government.
On Wednesday, the Ohio Republican got caught up in his own words, insisting that the inquiry still had merit, despite the Justice Department indictment against its primary witness, Alexander Smirnov…
On Tuesday, the Justice Department revealed that Smirnov admitted to prosecutors that “officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved” in developing the Hunter Biden narrative.
Well good, that’s excellent. We want Putin’s Russia deciding what we can have.
On Thursday, special counsel David Weiss announced the indictment of Smirnov on one count of making a false statement and one count of creating a false record, related to what he told the FBI in 2020 about alleged corruption by the Biden family and its connection to Ukrainian-owned Burisma Holdings.
Hunter Biden gets his share of blame for this, parlaying Daddy’s job into a fat salary for him. The Bidens aren’t as bad as the Trump’s but they’re not good, either. It seems we don’t get to have good people.
Sadly, the finding that Russian interference likely didn’t affect the outcome of the 2016 election has sadly been interpreted by some conservatives I know as “Ha ha, the libs made it all up, any talk of Russians manipulating American opinions has been proven false.”
I still worry.
Yes, this reminds me of Maria Butina and the NRA:
https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2018/meanwhile/
“Hunter Biden gets his share of blame for this, parlaying Daddy’s job into a fat salary for him.”
This is what children of famous people do, opportunities find them.
George W. Bush had Saudi investors bail out failing businesses. He was majority owner of the Texas rangers and almost became the commissione of baseball. Jenna Bush is a talk show host with multiple book deals. Chelsea Clinton gets book deals. Andrew Cuomo got positions in the Clinton Administration. At the same time, these are people who are highly educated and steeped in the business/political world. Hunter wasn’t a strung out junkie when he was on the Burisma board.
He was a Georgetown undergrad and Yale law school graduate. He had high level jobs in the finance sector, worked at the Department of Commerece during the Clinton Administration and the George Bush appointed him to a five year term on the Board of Directors of Amtrak. When Joe became VP he stepped down.
Biden was on the board of directors of World Food Program USA, a 501(c)(3) charity based in Washington, D.C., that supports the work of the UN World Food Programme from 2011 to 2017; he served as board chairman from 2011 to 2015.
Before he joined the Burisma board, Biden was hired to help Burisma with corporate governance best practices, while still an attorney with Boies Schiller Flexner, something he was more than qualified to do. Him joining the Board after that isn’t surprising.
The whole conspiracy theory that Burisma had him on the Board to get Biden and the US to fire the prosecutor allegedly investigating Burisma has been debunked repeatedly. The prosecutor was corrupt and wasn’t investigating the company. Keeping the corrupt prosecutor in place would have been in the company’s interest.
One of his partners in his investment firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, was John Kerry’s step-son. RSP was an investor in a Chinese private equity fund. No one is going after John Kerry, who was Secretary of State for part of the time RSP was invested in the Chinese fund.
Hunter did nothing wrong, and nothing the vast majority of well connected people do. The fact that Russia is feeding stupid US politicians lies isn’t Hunter’s fault. Hunter wasn’t the one working in his father’s administration selling information to the Saudis in exchange for a $2 billion investment once he left office, for a fund in an area he has no expertise.
And Russian interference absolutely changed the outcome of the election, on multiple levels. They ran a propaganda operation to turn off Democrats from voting or to vote 3rd party. Given the narrow margin by which Trump won several states, which was smaller than the 3rd party vote, it had the desired effect. It was especially targeted to Black voters, which partially explains Clinton’s loss in Michigan, the votes they expected to come in from Detroit never materialized. Paul Manafort turned over detailed voter data to a Russian operative so Russia could precisely target people with specifically crafted propaganda.
“and now they can’t any more.”
Wanna bet?
Well, can’t without blatantly lying, but yeh point taken.
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