House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is desperately trying to spin the damning news on ex–FBI informant Alexander Smirnov.
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.
“You said the 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information you have,” CNN’s Manu Raju prompted the Freedom Caucus politician on Wednesday, referring to the FBI’s FD-1023 form that documents Smirnov’s claims, which he is now accused of completely making up. In December, Jordan claimed the 1023 form constituted the “key” impeachable offense.
“It corroborates but it doesn’t change the fundamental facts,” Jordan responded, trying to flip the script and maintain that Biden was still involved in his son’s business dealings during his vice presidency.
The amount of connections Republicans have to Russia are just too many.
It’s been pretty obvious for a while but now it’s just getting ridiculous. This Russian agent literally reported to the “highest level” of Russian government…
Everyone owes it to Democracy to listen to Maddow’s Ultra podcast covering Hitler’s infiltration of the US congress during the 1930s. The parallels to today are stark.
There was a great series of charts set up during the Trump administration too:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/
Got a link to that podcast?
I think you can listen to it here: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra
I listened to it on Audible if you have that.
Audible’s interface is absolutely awful for podcasts.
On the other hand, I think that about every podcast app.