House Republicans reached a critical point this week in their bid to impeach Joe Biden: a closed-door interview with the Presidentās younger brother James. But the coveted testimony was dramatically overshadowed by another development: The Justice Department indicting one of the impeachment inquiryās lead informants for lying to the FBI about the Biden family with dirt from Russian intelligence.
The revelation was the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks for the House GOPās impeachment effort. In July, one of its whistleblowers was arrested for acting as a Chinese agent. In August, Hunter Bidenās longtime associate Devon Archerāwho House Oversight Chair James Comer said could become a āheroā of the probeātestified that President Biden had no involvement in his sonās business dealings. At the inquiryās first public hearing in September, Comerās star witness, conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley, said there wasnāt enough evidence to impeach Biden. And on Tuesday, federal prosecutors claimed that FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who made false bribery allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter, had āextensive and extremely recent contactsā with the Kremlin.
How much of our tax dollars did they waste on this?
From their perspective, the money was well spent - they got to use public funds to dishonestly slander and smear their political opponents. Now that itās fallen apart so catastrophically that people are being charged for their bullshit, they get to point to a deep-state conspiracy. They literally couldnāt lose.
Just as much as they always waste, which is 100% of tax dollars that republicans are paid.