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.
Can something never having gained substance or volume"collapse"?
It had substanceā¦ Just in the form of dead trees in large collated stacks held together with the narrative equivalent of chewing gum. The soap bubble veneer encapsulating nothing but hot air
It doesnāt matter. The Republicans have the conspiracy theorists in their pocket who have been so scepticism poisoned that they basically believe what they believe process or evidence be damned but are very good at creating red string webs based on the unproven negative space of the unproven but not impossible.
Yeah, since it is usually measured on effort alone.