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Raskin: Biden impeachment ‘essentially ended’ with Smirnov bombshell
The Hill ^ | 02/21/2024 | MIKE LILLIS

Posted on 02/21/2024 11:41:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden has been demolished by new revelations that Russia might have played a role in drumming up false allegations about the president’s finances.

“The impeachment investigation essentially ended yesterday, in substance if not in form, with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov’s allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters in Washington.

Republicans have leaned heavily on the declarations of Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who alleged that Biden and his son, Hunter, both received $5 million in dubious payments from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden sat.

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KEYWORDS: 4thgradevocabulary; ashameaboutyerkid; biden; chicagocusservative; convenient; frpottymouths; illiteratefreepers; impeachment; iquestionthetiming; jamieraskin; jamieratskin; mikelillis; raskin; ratskin; smirnov
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To: Tommy Revolts

As usual Rat-Skin is talking through his ash.
Impeaching Crime Boss Joey is a suckers* play. Just keep investigating don’t let Chuckie smother it.


21 posted on 02/21/2024 1:03:29 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Aha.......why was jill in ukraine?


22 posted on 02/21/2024 1:15:08 PM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: Liz

Ratskin. He LIES.


23 posted on 02/21/2024 1:36:46 PM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Smirnov was telling the truth. Thats why he was arrested. The PROOF is that he reported Hunter’s and Joe’s crimes $5 Million dollar payoffs 4 years ago, and they are just now jailing him. Think ‘Julian Assange Treatment’.


24 posted on 02/21/2024 1:49:02 PM PST by oil_dude
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To: Tommy Revolts

How wonderful it must be to be a Democrat and support Marxists like Raskin, and others of his ilk.


25 posted on 02/21/2024 2:21:50 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Tommy Revolts
Smirnov was arrested last week and charged with lying to the FBI about those allegations.


26 posted on 02/21/2024 2:47:20 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: wbarmy

None that’s been released so far.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 3:15:57 PM PST by Coronal
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To: Liz

If congressional GOP want to jeopardize their political futures by not impeaching Brandon then by all means, full speed ahead.


28 posted on 02/21/2024 3:46:25 PM PST by No Party Affiliation
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To: Liz

She was speaking to recipients of USAID funding, but what else?


29 posted on 02/21/2024 3:56:33 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Tommy Revolts

So Smirnov was a trusted and productive FBI asset for years working with Russians and providing valuable intelligence for the US. But now American intelligence is accusing him of lying (about Biden) and working with Russians? Looks like the FBI is throwing him under the bus to protect the Bidens.


30 posted on 02/21/2024 3:57:11 PM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: Tommy Revolts
Given the FBI's track record in recent decades, if the FBI says someone is lying, that's a good sign that the person is telling the truth.

Believing that Smirnov is lying because the FBI says so is like believing that Mar-a-Lago is worth only $18 million because Engoron says so.

31 posted on 02/21/2024 4:07:56 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Still trying to burnish her credentials, eh?


32 posted on 02/21/2024 4:19:31 PM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

see, we arrest anyone who speaks against Biden and therefore protect Biden from consequences.

Welcome to Soviet Amerika.


33 posted on 02/21/2024 4:44:56 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Tommy Revolts

Hunter Biden received a 3.5 MM dollar wire from the wife of the mayor of Moscow, and no one knows why?


34 posted on 02/21/2024 7:12:28 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Liz
LOL. No way. But you asked, so I answered.

The real question and point of investigation, is what else was Jill B doing in Ukraine in 2014? While Hunter B’s connection with Barisma has been reported by Giuliani and others, no one has yet suggested a Jill B connection. No one has even yet suggested that Jill is possibly a full-fledged member (or more) of “The Biden Crime Family” (to quote Giuliani). AFAIK, no one has ever reported that Jill B set foot in Ukraine, and this happened 10 years ago.

35 posted on 02/21/2024 11:47:15 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Tommy Revolts

Plant and focus on a false version of a true story and you effectively discredit the true story.

One of the most common pages in the intel org disinformation book.


36 posted on 02/22/2024 12:13:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

No ones got Jill’s real number.....or even hinted at the real questions you posed:
<><>what was Jill doing in Ukraine in 2014?
<><>Hunter’s seen as the bad Biden but no one has yet suggested a Jill connection.
<><>No one has even suggested she is a full-fledged “Biden Crime Family” member
<><> AFAIK, no one has ever reported Jill B in Ukraine 10 years ago.


37 posted on 02/22/2024 3:16:17 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Raskin: Biden impeachment ‘essentially ended’ with Smirnov bombshell


Why? It was such a small part of the Investigation.

It also doesn’t explain why the FBI actively blew off investigating earlier.


38 posted on 02/22/2024 11:15:12 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Tommy Revolts

From the people that brought you Russia, Russia, Russia and Seditious Conspiracy…

Thanks for reminding us that the FBI has got to go.


39 posted on 02/22/2024 1:02:16 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Tommy Revolts

hilarious, from the guy that impeached Trump over a perfect phone call trying to see just how criminal Biden was.


40 posted on 02/22/2024 1:08:19 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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