House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan finally revealed the truth about exāFBI informant Alexander Smirnov.
After trying and failing to salvage Republicansā crumbling impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan at last, finally, conceded on Friday that Alexander Smirnovās story might not be totally accurate.
āI donāt know, maybe the guy did lie,ā Jordan said at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.
The House Judiciary chair spent the better part of the week attempting to twist and tweak Smirnovās testimony, insisting, as he had for months, that Smirnovās allegationsāthat Biden had reaped millions off of a business deal between his son and the Ukrainian company Burismaāstill held weight, and could prove the most viable pathway to successfully charge the sitting president. That is, even after Smirnov was indicted for lying to the FBI about those claimsāand then reportedly admitted to prosecutors that the story had been drawn up with the help of top Russian intelligence officials and the whole thing was a bed of lies.
Remember when Dan Rather was fired for reporting on Bush going AWOL? It wasnāt because he got the story wrong, itās because he only had one source. And all he was, was a talking head. These Republican traitors can strike war drums of insurrection and coups, using one source they were told was very questionable, then they just get to shrug, go,āOoops, my badā, and carry on like nothing happened?
Thatās the Power of Democracy
āI donāt know, maybe the guy did lie,ā Jordan said at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.
ā¦ thatās absolutely something you look into before taking this any where near as far as one did. When you throw stones at the emperor, you make sure you donāt miss.
When you throw stones at the emperor, you make sure you donāt miss.
Doesnāt work that way. The GOP learned that their base doesnāt care about failure.
Failure is just emboldening fuel for the narrative that everything is rigged against them. I mean, they couldnāt be that stupid and that wrong so consistently, right?.. Right?
Their base gobbles up failure and shits out hot, wet anger diarrhea and then rubs it on everything. And then they complain that no one is doing anything about all this diarrhea.
revoltingly accurate.
Strangely sexy.
More-correctly:
Ideology/Prejudice ( 2 sides of the same Kahneman System-1 limbic-brain ācoinā ) canāt tolerate the Venn-diagram intersection of objectivity & considered-reasoning ā¦ so it acts to displace all-such from its world/dominion.
Fixed it for you.
That only works if the emperor will murder you for failing. Biden wonāt do that.
Biden doesnāt have to do that.
He looks like a buffoon.
That buffoonery energizes the MAGA base. Heās the distraction for billions being siphoned from that base.
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āBut there sure is quite a contrast forāChristopher Steele can give false information about President Trump, and he continues to get paid.ā
Thing is, the information in the Steele Dossier was not FALSE. Even the most salacious allegation, the āpee tapeā, has been corroborated.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pee-tape-trump-mueller-report-823755/
"on October 30th, 2016, Trumpās private attorney and fixer Michael Cohen received a text from a Russian businessman involved in the Trump Tower Moscow deal, in progress for more than a year. āStopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if thereās anything else. Just so you knowā¦.ā Giorgi Rtskhiladze wrote to Cohen. Cohen told investigators he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze.Ā
Rtskhiladze later admitted he had been told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen, the report says.Ā
Rtskhiladzeās description of the tapesā content tracks with the unverified information included in the Steele dossier, which claimed that Trump watched Russian prostitutes urinate in a Moscow hotel room in 2013. āRtskhiladze said ātapesā referred to compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia.ā"
Also, regardless, Christopher Steele didnāt present any of this information while under oath, so even if any of it werenāt true, he has every right to say it. Alexander Smirnov lied under oath under the direction of the Russian government
More accurately, he lied to the FBI.
Homer: Well, the evening began at the gentlemenās club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
Scully: Mr. Simpson, itās a felony to lie to the FBI.
Homer: We were sitting in Barneyās car eating packets of mustard. You happy?
flow of tapes
Lmao
The tapes must flow!
Burnt asset got the memo he just got burnt.
Good luck with the DoJ, Gymmie.
āBut there sure is quite a contrast forāChristopher Steele can give false information about President Trump, and he continues to get paid. This guy, this Mr. Smirnov, can give false informationāwhat theyāve said is false informationāand he gets arrested,ā Jordan added, referring to former British spy Christopher Steele and his private report of raw intelligence on Trumpās suspected ties to the Russian government, better known as the Steele Dossier.
Correct me if Iām wrong, but I donāt think that Steele guy ever filed any paperwork with the FBI saying his claims were true.
Not only that, but the data in the Dossier has been confirmedā¦
Steele produced an intelligence dossier. It listed facts, extrapolations and rumors and it clearly labeled which items were which. Iirc, the pee tape was listed as a persistent rumor out of Russia that he couldnāt corroborate, but that he also couldnāt definitely label as false.
ā¦ But never testified that all the allegations were provable, of course. Some of them never were.
But thatās just a tiny bit different from claiming to having been privy to certain payments and later having to admit you made it all up
āAnyway, Iām looking forward to whatever bullshit we spin up next. Weāve got some Russian guys looking into a rumor that Joe Biden was DB Cooper.ā
