Dems want answers: Why did GOP use Russia's Alexander Smirnov in Biden impeachment probe?
Source: USA Today
Published 5:14 a.m. ET Mar. 11, 2024 | Updated 5:14 a.m. ET Mar. 11, 2024
WASHINGTON -- When former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov claimed President Joe Biden and his son Hunter took $5 million bribes from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, House Republicans deemed it a key piece of evidence against President Joe Biden in their ongoing impeachment investigation. Then Smirnov was indicted by a federal grand jury last month for lying to the FBI about the allegations just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
So the House GOP quietly scrubbed a reference to Smirnov's alleged smear of Biden from their impeachment website. But federal authorities also revealed that Smirnov, arrested Feb. 14 at a Las Vegas airport, got the false claim from his contacts in the upper echelons of Russian intelligence.
Now, some House Democrats tell USA TODAY that the DOJ needs to investigate what leading Republican impeachment advocates like Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. James Comer of Kentucky knew about Smirnov’s false claims – and when they knew it – to determine whether they have been implicated in an ongoing Kremlin propaganda campaign.
Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., a former federal prosecutor, said Smirnov’s ties to Russian intelligence are especially concerning because they appear to be part of a Kremlin election-meddling operation that dates back to 2016, when efforts to smear Hillary Clinton by hacking her and her staff's emails helped Vladimir Putin’s favored candidate, Donald Trump in his campaign to win the White House.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/11/biden-impeachment-inquiry-alexander-smirnov/72852627007/
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