Posted on 02/16/2024 7:01:48 AM PST by Twotone
On Thursday, special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant who claimed President Biden was bribed by Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma. The indictment claims the informant lied about Biden's alleged role in the business dealings.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, was arrested on Thursday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, per CNN.
Smirnov has been accused in the indictment that his story to the FBI "was a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts that had actually occurred but at a later date than he claimed and for the purpose of pitching Burisma on the Defendant’s services and products, not for discussing bribes to [Joe Biden] when he was in office."
The informant, who has now been identified as Smirnov, provided testimony to House Republicans and their investigation into the Biden family's alleged illegal foreign business dealings. He claimed that Burisma executives paid President Biden and his son Hunter Biden $5 million each to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who had been investigating Burisma at the time.
The informant claimed that the bribery occurred while Biden was vice president serving under Barack Obama.
The indictment states, "In truth and fact, the Defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the Obama-Biden Administration and after the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016, in other words, when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office."
"In short, the Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Joe Biden] and his candidacy," it continues.
This should discourage any future whistle-blowers from coming forward.
Now that is a howler.
Liar arrested by buncha a congenital lying liars.
He is an enemy of the state and must be disposed of, one way or another.
It's what the swamp does, instead of your job, create a distraction.
Biden bragged about getting the prosecutor fired.
This is a warning from the Dept. of Injustice for anyone else who might talk to the Republicans.
Precisely!
The Feral Bureau of Intimidation must be disbanded and every crook working for it forbidden to work for the federal government.
Will he get sick in prison and walk out into,the yard and keel over like putin’s political prisoner just did?
Don't we need FISA warrants to unmask people who spoke to Biden family members from overseas-originating phone calls?
Isn't that how the process is supposed to work now?
-PJ
Smirnov has been accused in the indictment that his story to the FBI “was a fabrication.
Just like the Russia Russia Russia story but nobody will do time on that deal.
Liars arresting liars to protect liars
Waiting for them to round up the Russian Collusion liars.
sure......everyone is lying except Joe Biden....
Absent a thorough house cleaning of the FBI and AG offices, we will continue to see this Gestapo banana republic crap.
BTTT
So.. is this guy arrested for lying - that he CLAIMED Biden was taking bribes or that he admitted that his claims that Biden took bribes were not true?
Taking lessons from Putin on how to handle perceived “enemies”.
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