The Biden Impeachment Inquiry. An Update.

In September of last year, the Republican lead House of Representatives opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. In a blog that I wrote at the time, I stated that the inquiry was politically motivated to appease Donald Trump and to damage President Biden in the next presidential election. I stand by that statement.

The justification for the inquiry was that Joe Biden was involved in corrupt business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden sat on the board of directors of Burisma while his father was Vice-President of the United States. The Republican’s smoking gun against Joe Biden was information provided to the FBI by an informant that claimed Joe and Hunter Biden were paid $5 million in bribes by Burisma in return for protection against a Ukrainian government investigation.
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Despite numerous warnings from the FBI that the information provided by the informant was uncorroborated and its credibility unknown, the Republicans made it the centerpiece of their case against Joe Biden.  Republican Representative James Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee called the source of the allegation “highly credible”. Republican Representative Jim Jordan, the Judiciary Committee Chairman, called the information provided by the FBI informant the “most corroborating evidence we have”. The informant’s statement, obtained from the FBI, was read into the Congressional Record and included as a “key” document into the impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden. 

It has recently been made public that Alexander Smirnov was the FBI informant who made the allegations against the Bidens in 2020. He was arrested last month in Las Vegas on charges that he had fabricated the story to discredit Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential race. The two-count indictment against Mr. Smirnov alleges that he made false statements to the FBI and falsified records in a federal investigation.  
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During the investigation into Mr. Smirnov’s activities, federal prosecutors have determined that he is actively peddling new lies about the Bidens that could impact the current presidential race, and that he has recently been in contact with a number of Russian officials. As a result, federal prosecutors have successfully petitioned the court to keep Mr. Smirnov in jail while he awaits trial. 

​Since Alexander Smirnov’s arrest, Democrats have called for the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden to end. But the House impeachment managers have vowed to press on. They are more interested in keeping the investigation into Joe Biden alive and in the press than they are with the facts.

James Comer and Jim Jordan are beholden to Donald Trump, not to the truth. This is an election year, and it is politically expedient to hang the prospect of impeachment over the head of Joe Biden and stay on the right side of Donald Trump.  

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