A bribery allegation against Biden collapsed this week after the Justice Department said one of its informants had lied.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-republicans-drop-impeachment-inquiry_n_65cfa7a3e4b04daca696e030 WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden said Friday that Republicans should drop their impeachment inquiry against him after the Justice Department said an FBI informant made up a bribery allegation.
“He is lying and it should be dropped,” Biden said at brief White House press conference, in response to a question from a reporter.
“It’s been an outrageous effort from the beginning,” he added of the impeachment effort.
Since last year, Republicans have trumpeted unverified bribery accusations from an FBI informant who claimed to have heard them from a Ukrainian oligarch. But after the Justice Department announced it would be prosecuting the informant for allegedly fabricating the bribe rumors, Democrats called on Republicans to drop impeachment.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House oversight committee, said the indictment “has demonstrated how key evidence at the heart of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry is based on a lie.”
The informant, 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov, told his FBI handler in 2020 that the owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, said he’d paid $5 million bribes to both Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The younger Biden served on Burisma’s board from 2014 to 2019, and Republicans have long claimed that when he was vice president, Biden forced out a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to benefit Burisma and his son. State Department officials have repeatedly debunked that allegation, but the bribe claim gave it new life last year.
House oversight committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Thursday the impeachment inquiry would continue, and he said the FBI’s actions were “very concerning since they’d previously vouched for the informant.
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On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee released the transcript of its interview last year with Scott Brady, a former U.S. attorney who oversaw the vetting of evidence related to the Bidens and Ukraine. Brady said the FBI received the allegation from Smirnov in June 2020 and found it credible enough to forward it to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who was leading an investigation into Hunter Biden’s failure to pay taxes on his overseas income. “We felt that there were sufficient indicia of credibility... to pass it on to an office that had a predicated grand jury investigation,” Brady said. As the indictment explains, however, further investigation revealed that the travel and meetings Smirnov described didn’t match information obtained from other people mentioned in his account. He was arrested this week in Las Vegas. Republicans have looked through thousands of pages of Hunter Biden’s bank records and not announced they’ve found the Ukrainian bribe money. The White House has previously said Republicans should drop their impeachment inquiry, and it’s not the first time Biden has commented on the bribe allegation. “Where’s the money?” Biden said last June, before adding: “I’m joking. It’s a bunch of malarkey.”
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>>1267759 Don't care.
Still going to impeach Big Joe Bribin' Biden.
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>>1267770 I like how you think you're a sitting United States Congressman. It beats the usual chud persecution delusions.
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>>1267770 >hehe, I'm not gonna let facts get in the way of my feelings Anonymous
>one informant lying means all of the evidence is null >please ignore the records of financial transactions and shell companies
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>>1267812 >I am angery!! Don't care still voting to impeach Biden
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>>1267821 How did your mental illness interpret anger from that post?
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>>1267820 >please ignore the records of financial transactions and shell companies that don't have any accounts listed and don't show any bank transfers Ok I'm ignoring what should be ignored.
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>>1267823 >its not real if I don't like it and it makes my guy look bad How will you cope when Biden gets impeached?
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>>1267821 >I-i like h-how you, uh, think l-like you're a sitting US congressman Sorry, you're right, it was anger. It was dorkiness.
Shut up nerd.
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>>1267824 I don't know why you think that needs coping . You know the Senate will acquit him just like they did for Trump.
gut feelings, nothing more than gut feelings, Trying to forget my gut feelings
gut feelings, nothing more than gut feelings, Trying to forget my gut feelings Sat 17 Feb 2024 20:12:35 No. 1267853 Report Quoted By:
>>1267812 I am a US congressman, this is how i spend the taxpayers $.
>>1267814 >>hehe, I'm not gonna let facts get in the way of my feelings Comprised of 100 million neurons, the network of nerve cells lining the digestive tract is so extensive that it has earned the nickname “second brain.”
https://neuroscience.ubc.ca/our-second-brain-more-than-a-gut-feeling/ I think with my ''gut feelings'', and my gut say to impeach Big Joe Bribin' Genocidin' Biden
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>>1267824 I hope House Republicans continue to do nothing but focus on impeaching Biden up until election day
Keep blocking border security bills, don't pass a budget, let the government shut down. Just keep focusing on getting Biden.
Pair that with Trump catching a few criminal convictions, and Biden will coast into a second term with Dems keeping the Senate and getting the House back
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>>1267857 right wingers do tend to fulfill their own prophecies unintentionally
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For stop the War Voted Trump
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>>1267857 But the conservatively biased media is blaming all Republican obstruction and treason on Biden. And this strategy has worked in the past against Obama, what makes you think it will fail this time?
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>>1267860 obama was a black man with a terrorist's middle name, he was a literal apocalyptic scenario for boomers
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>>1267860 obama was a black man with a terrorist's middle name, he was a literal apocalyptic scenario for boomers (who are becoming more and more irrelevant anyways)
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>>1267759 >after the Justice Department said and who runs the justice department?
we need to make the federal government nonpartisan. we need a law banning anyone who has ever voted democrat from serving in the federal government or courts in any capacity
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>>1267864 i love how "no fair" is all you have left
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>>1267865 I fundamentally don't trust any of the dems in government to do their job and not be corrupt. great job dems when close to half the country no longer trusts the government to not be biased
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>>1267866 well you should've succeeded in your insurrection i guess
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>>1267860 I don't think it's working as well. Obama's first midterm was much worse for the Democrats than Biden's was.
And despite the right wing media machine going full force against him, Obama still easily won reelection against a candidate with infinitely less baggage that their current candidate, who will be in the midst of multiple criminal trials on election day.
Propaganda is a powerful political tool, but it has it's limits.
The Republican party during Obama was in a much better place than it is today. The current Republican party has no idea what it stands for and seems to have forgotten how to govern entirely.
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>>1267870 I'd argue Trump's cult of personality makes him a bigger threat since even his crashing the economy and his total bungling of the Trump Virus pandemic still netted him the 2nd most votes for a candidate in the history of elections and Republicans over preformed across the board in 2020.
And it's not like Romney inspired that level of blind loyalty where if he told his followers to stage a coup, they do it. Unlike Trumps.
Also, Biden lucked out big time where the Republican supreme court repealed Roe v Wade making abortion a huge issue over the economy, which Republicans successfully managed to scapegoat Democrats for. Which is one of the big reasons the red wave became a red puddle,
And biggest of all, all Republicans are traitors who will still vote for Trump at end of the day, because they put power over country. So I don't expect to see any actual defections, and Biden will waste his time trying to court those Republicans while pissing off liberal voters.
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>>1267860 >>1267870 all the shit with obongo was 100% obongo's own fault for being intentionally divisive and an asshole. 2010 was so big because the dems won really big in 2008 and then did jack shit other than raising the price of medical care. no one liked romney because he is a rino corporate faggot. there was no right wing conspiracy, obongo was just that far left and that divisive. Also obongo intentionally waited until after the 2012 election to do most of the shit he is hated for.
brandon didn't get his shit kicked in as hard in 2022 as obongo did in 2010 because in 2008 dems won 257 house seats and 60* senate seats. In 2020 dems only won 222 senate seats and 50 senators and the 2022 map wasn't a good senate map for the GOP.
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>>1267873 >since even his crashing the economy he didn't. dems did intentionally by closing big cities
>and his total bungling of the Trump Virus pandemic covid isn't real. it was a made up virus made in china so dems could rig the 2020 election
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>>1267873 >And biggest of all, all Republicans are traitors who will still vote for Trump at end of the day, because they put power over country. fuck off. dems have not done a single good thing for the US in over 100 years. they are evil pieces of shit who intentionally alienate half the country and then get shocked when people would rather vote for trump over the party that wants to ban guns, ship jobs to china and have an open border and constantly tells everyone how much they hate white people for existing
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>>1267876 >tfw trump banned guns, got paid millions by china and killed a border deal Anonymous
>>1267878 oh i almost forgot
>gave presidential pardon to kodak black and let january 6th rioters rot Anonymous
>>1267878 >tfw trump banned guns, what guns did he ban? because bidens atf is trying to redefine what is a gun and ban pistol braces and is trying to ban semi autos
> got paid millions by china and biden didn't? what do you think nafta was? why is a faggot who was a senator all his life a millionaire?
> and killed a border deal boarder deal was shit with the 5,000 illegals per day quota and no deportations and no permanent ban on citizenship
>>1267879 >>gave presidential pardon to kodak black who? clinton and obongo gave pardons to tons of their cronies on their last day of office. presidents always do that shit because they are pieces of shit
> and let january 6th rioters rot jan 6 was mega based
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>>1267880 tldr faggot. enjoy being contrartian
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>>1267882 >no argument literally always. enjoy being a tranny
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>>1267880 tldr faggot. enjoy being an empty rhetoric contrarian
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>>1267875 >>1267876 That's nice /pol/, but Trump still tanked the economy and his bioweapon killed millions
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>>1267888 nope. dems intentionally tanked the economy by shutting down everything to try to make trump look bad and I don't know a single person who died of the obongo funded china virus. hell I never even caught it once despite being in a "high risk" job and being told they contact traced and I was exposed multiple times
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>>1267890 You mean Trump tanked the economy by shutting down everything and also tripled down on the failed trickle down economics which is why inflation happened.
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>>1267891 >You mean Trump tanked the economy by shutting down everything that was democrat mayors and governors who did it intentionally to cause a recession. Cuomo and Murphy also intentionally sent coof patients into nursing homes to try to murder olds to make trump look bad. Cuomo even got caught doctoring number because the federal government was investigating him for it and even AOC got pissed at him, but then the media dropped it because he groped some woman, as though that was a bigger deal than him murdering olds for political purposes and then covering it up
>and also tripled down on the failed trickle down economics Trump's tax plan cut taxes for 2/3rds of all Americans.
>which is why inflation happened. nope, that was biden who intentionally caused inflation by giving standard oil and opec a monopoly on the energy industry and printing money with his >increasing inflation act
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>>1267900 >repeats debunked republican think tank talking points So original
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>>1267900 >Trump's tax plan cut taxes for 2/3rds of all Americans. Trump's tax plan expired in 2020 as it was designed to do and the taxes went back up again.
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>>1267902 >Debooonked >didn't actually post anything sure thing there queer
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>>1267903 biden and the dems fault for raising taxes instead of extending the cuts. harris even promised in the debates to end the trump middle class tax cuts when her and brandon took over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mTGXTkvN88 dems just hate the middle class and want to raise taxes on them that bad
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>>1267900 >that was biden who intentionally caused inflation by giving standard oil and opec a monopoly on the energy industry We're producing more oil under Biden than we did under Trump, how does that work?
>printing money with his >increasing inflation act Biden caused inflation by signing a law to fight inflation? Do you understand how cause and effect work?
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>>1267905 >GOP designs the tax cuts to expire in 2020 >blames democrats when they expire Who is supposed to fall for this?
>dems hate the middle class Dems are the middle class
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>>1267905 Why did Republicans make the cuts temporary to begin with?
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>>1267908 >We're producing more oil under Biden than we did under Trump, we aren't
> how does that work? biden increased the cost of oil royalties for the first time in 100 years, by 50% and then refused to give out drilling permits to the fracking shale companies. Gas was so cheap under late obongo and trump because the shale companies had a small profit margin and were making money by selling at a high volume. this flooded the market and made most of the arab opec countries also flood the market so they could afford social programs and not have an arab spring.
Biden used the permits and oil royalties to prevent the shale companies from doing business so his friends in opec and standard oil could under produce and drive the cost of energy sky high
>Biden caused inflation by signing a law to fight inflation? Do you understand how cause and effect work? did you even read the bill retard? do you know the name of the bills never have jack shit to do with what is in them? go read it, all it did was print money, send it over seas and then put taxes on energy and heating for homes. bills always do the opposite of what they are titled
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>>1267909 >Who is supposed to fall for this? dems refused to extend them and as I already showed harris fucking said she was going to end them so there would be a tax hike on the middle class
>Dems are the middle class lol no. dems are the party of the coastal rich and illegal aliens and blacks
>>1267910 dems filibustered and demanded the cuts for the middle class expire.
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>>1267912 >dems filibustered and demanded the cuts for the middle class expire. Where do you people get this shit from?
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>>1267911 >we aren't We are
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS1&f=M >did you even read the bill retard? do you know the name of the bills never have jack shit to do with what is in them? go read it, all it did was print money, send it over seas and then put taxes on energy and heating for homes. bills always do the opposite of what they are titled You're the one who said the bill is what caused the spike in inflation.
The first spike in inflation was in April of 2021.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act in August of 2022.
How did a bill signed in August of 2022 cause a spike in inflation in April of 2021?
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>>1267917 >The first spike in inflation was in April of 2021. Inflation is a lagging indicator, meaning the effects don't show up until months or years after the fact. I know you won't believe me so
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>>1267918 This response is so nonsensical that I can't tell if you're the Trumpy retard or the other retard who's wasting time like I am arguing with him.
If you're the other retard, learn to read. I'm arguing the same thing you are, that the causes of inflation were already underway before Biden took office.
If you're the Trumpy retard, congratulations genius you literally just proved my point.
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>>1267913 the news
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/27/democrats-oppose-gop-tax-framework-but-can-they-stop-it/708923001/ >>1267917 >We are that is only a hair higher after being lower for most of brandon's presidency when fuel prices and inflation was highest
>You're the one who said the bill is what caused the spike in inflation. >The first spike in inflation was in April of 2021. First inflation was caused by brandon hiking oil royalties up and refusing to give permits to shale companies to intentionally drive up the price of energy and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 which intentionally caused inflation to make money for dem donors and foreign governments. inflation was then exacerbated by the Inflation Reduction Act
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>>1267921 >pastes an article about how democrats are powerless to stop the GOP from enacting their backwards tax policies I don't think you read the article before you posted it.
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>>1267923 the dems filibustered, the GOP had to use the byrd rule and the parliamentarian and cbo required the middle class tax cuts to sunset. if the dems didn't filibuster the middle class cuts would not have sunset.
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>>1267924 I don't know why you are either lying or repeating lies someone told you, but you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act >In final changes prior to approval of the Senate bill on December 2, additional changes were made (among others) that were reconciled with the House bill in a conference committee, prior to providing a final bill to the President for signature.[114] The Conference Committee version was published on December 15, 2017. It had relatively minor differences compared to the Senate bill. Individual and pass-through tax cuts expire after ten years, while the corporate tax changes are permanent. Anonymous
>>1267926 that was a requirement of the cbo and byrd rule. why didn't dems extend it in 2021 or 2022? why did harris say she wanted to end the middle class tax cuts?
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>>1267921 >that is only a hair higher after being lower for most of brandon's presidency when fuel prices and inflation was highest That's a weird way to write "I was wrong, Biden didn't give OPEC a monopoly on the energy industry and we are producing more oil under him than we were under Trump", but I'll still accept it.
>First inflation was caused by brandon hiking oil royalties up and refusing to give permits to shale companies to intentionally drive up the price of energy The increase in royalties only applied to new leases. The royalties for existing leases were not affected. How do you figure increasing royalties on leases that had not even been written yet cause a spike in inflation?
>and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 which intentionally caused inflation to make money for dem donors and foreign governments I would absolutely love to hear how you figure the 1.9 trillion dollars pumped into the economy by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 caused inflation but the 2.2 trillion dollars pumped into the economy by the CARES Act Trump signed into law in March of 2020 didn't
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>>1267930 >That's a weird way to write "I was wrong, Biden didn't give OPEC a monopoly on the energy industry and we are producing more oil under him than we were under Trump", but I'll still accept it. biden gave opec and standard oil a monopoly on oil production intentionally to help his rich jew energy friends and to hurt the US middle class, because he fucking hates Americans.
>The increase in royalties only applied to new leases. The royalties for existing leases were not affected. CITATION NEEDED
>How do you figure increasing royalties on leases that had not even been written yet cause a spike in inflation? A. citation needed
b. he refused to give leases to nonStandard Oil companies.
>I would absolutely love to hear how you figure the 1.9 trillion dollars pumped into the economy by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 caused inflation but the 2.2 trillion dollars pumped into the economy by the CARES Act Trump signed into law in March of 2020 didn't trump's plan went to the people. bidens plan just printed money to send to his friends
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>>1267935 biden is the same piece of shit who sucked nafta's dick. all post civil war dems fucking hate America and want to kill as many Americans as they can
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>>1267933 >biden gave opec and standard oil a monopoly on oil production intentionally to help his rich jew energy friends and to hurt the US middle class, because he fucking hates Americans. Did your brain reset? You just acknowledged yourself America is producing more oil than we did under Trump, then you go back to your exact same talking point about Biden giving OPEC a monopoly on oil production
>CITATION NEEDED You know what? I admit I was wrong on this one. I misread a date.
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1093195479/biden-federal-oil-leases-royalties Biden didn't even increase royalty rates on new leases until 2022. So your entire point about that causing inflation in 2021 does not make sense.
>trump's plan went to the people. bidens plan just printed money to send to his friends That isn't even an argument, that's just a banality. But I'll grant you the same courtesy you gave me and respond to your claim with a hearty
>cItAtIoN nEeDeD While we wait, here's a link to where Trump shit canned the guy who was supposed to make sure the CARES Act funds went where they were supposed to go two weeks after he signed the 2.2 trillion dollar bill into law
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>>1267936 consider psychatric help
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>>1267929 >The Byrd Rule applies to the House No it doesn't
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>>1267759 >Joe Biden Says Republicans Should Drop Impeachment Following FBI Bombshell He's right. They should, but they won't.
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>>1267903 Except for the rich, Trump raised taxes on everyone else.
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>>1267999 Donald Trump stole my Summer, my Halloween, my ability to enjoy life itself for four years and people who would later help him steal the presidency in the first place ruined my professional life and put me in a debt hole I'm still only barely "back" from for years. F*** em all.
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>>1267830 >literally so mad he can't even talk Kek
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>>1268057 So is your mother, bitch.