Comer and the GOP really stepped in it this time.

Translation: the Republican effort to impeach Joe Biden is, in actuality, a Russian intelligence operation.

Well well well...who would've thunk it

And this, dear trunts, is why 51 intelligence professionals said that the "Hunter's laptop" story had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation

Here's why MAGAts will never admit their error:

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

--Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Fun fact ...

Smirnov told the FBI on June 6th 2020. that a Burisma executive referred to Joe Biden as "The Big Guy" either before Trump took office or after the 2016 election.

The FBI has already established that Smirnov never had that phone call, as Smirnov had not yet met any actual Burisma employees at that point in time.

The NY Post story, first stating "The Big Guy" fantasy didn't come out until until October 2020

Gee ... I wonder how Smirnov knew the term "The Big Guy" before the NY Post story ...

#7 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

I think you're a wilfully ignorant ----.

Whoops!

Gal Tuesday to the rescue once again. Why she repeatedly refuses my attempts at proposal is confounding.

Shocking Filing Says Busted Anti-Biden FBI Informant Had Contact With Leader Of An Assassination Squad

"In a new and stunning 28-page filing Tuesday, Weiss and his team laid out shocking details of Smirnov's alleged crimes and the reasons he should be imprisoned pending trial.

One of those reasons is Smirnov's extensive foreign contacts, which include someone in charge of a group whose job it is to carry out foreign assassinations " and whom Smirnov implicated in a lie about Hunter Biden:

Of particular note, Smirnov has reported numerous contacts with Russian Official 1, who has been described by Smirnov in a number of ways, including as the son of a former high-ranking Russian government official, someone who purportedly controls two groups of individuals tasked with carrying out assassination efforts in a third-party country, a Russian representative to another country, and as someone with ties to a particular Russian intelligence service. This latter fact was reported by Smirnov in October, 2023.

In December 2023, Smirnov reported to his Handler about a recent overseas trip, where Smirnov attended a meeting with Russian Official 2, who Smirnov has described as a high-ranking member of a specific Russian foreign intelligence service. According to Smirnov, the purpose of the meeting was to discuss a potential resolution to Russia's war against Ukraine. During this same trip, Smirnov apparently attended a separate meeting with Russian Official 1, the individual who controls groups that are engaged in overseas assassination efforts.

During this meeting with Russian Official 1, Russian Official 1 claimed that another individual, Russian Official 4, the head of a particular unit of a Russian Intelligence Service, ran an intelligence operation at a "club" located at a particular hotel. Smirnov told the FBI Handler that the Russian Intelligence Service intercepted cell phone calls made by guests at the hotel. The Russian Intelligence Service intercepted several calls placed by prominent U.S. persons the Russian government may use as "kompromat" in the 2024 election, depending on who the candidates will be. As described below, this story, which again was relayed by Smirnov to his Handler in/about December, 2023, appears to mirror the story that Smirnov was pushing on investigators and prosecutors during their meeting with him in September, 2023 (in which Smirnov pushed investigators to look into whether Businessperson 1 had been recorded in a foreign hotel).

House Republican Makes EXPLOSIVE Accusation Against Comer and Jordan, Says They Were Warned' Ex-Informant's Claim Was Uncorroborated " But Touted It Anyway

COLLINS: Looking at what you said last September, you were condemning your own party's impeachment efforts, saying that "Republicans in the House who are itching for an impeachment are relying on an imagined history." Did you ever think that it would collapse and this spectacular of a fashion

BUCK: Well, Kaitlan, it's even more of an imagined history now. Obviously, this witness " and we were warned at the time that we received the document outlining this witness's testimony " we were warned that the credibility of this statement was not known.

And yet people, my colleagues went out and talk to the public about how this was credible and how it was damning and how it proved President Biden's " at the time Vice President Biden's " complicity in receiving bribes. It appears to absolutely be false and to really undercut the nature of the charges. We've always been looking for a link between what Hunter Biden received in terms of money and Joe Biden's activities or Joe Biden receiving money. This clearly is not a credible link at this point.

COLLINS: So, James Comer and Jim Jordan " they knew that this was not corroborated information, yet they still went public with it, talked about it on television, used it to fuel these investigations regardless?

BUCK: That's what it appears. I certainly didn't have any evidence outside the statement itself that it was credible. And as a prosecutor for 25 years, Kaitlan, I never went to the public until I could prove the reliability of a statement. And even then, the only one public statement a prosecutor makes is the charging document. Let's see what the evidence is in this impeachment, if there is more evidence before going forward.

Mark ----- said something like "It's easier to dupe someone than it is to convince that they've been duped." That's a fundamental problem with MAGAbillies.