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Stephen Colbert accused the media of ignoring the fact that House Republicans are basing their Biden impeachment on Russian disinformation.
Colbert said:
Russian influence in the Republican Party appears to be nothing more than their sham impeachment of Joe Biden, which they hope to accomplish by attacking Hunter Biden first. Hunter was in Capitol Hill today to testify before the impeachment committee. We don't know what he said, but we do know that the GOP case is imploding, thanks to their star witness Alexander Smirnov, seen here, not seen here. Back in 2020, Smirnov told his FBI handler that he could testify that the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma had arranged for a $5 million bribe to be paid to both President Biden and his son Hunter. This is what you would call a smoking gun, well, if it were smoke or a gun.
Now, at the time, the FBI warned Republicans that this information would prevent them from betting their entire case on this clown-in-the-sky. And it turns out it may have been an oops-daisy because Smirnov has now been accused of lying to the FBI and falsifying records and has admitted to giving him information about Hunter Biden from Russian intelligence services. Went. At any other point in human history, Republicans in Congress trying to impeach the President of the United States based on false information sent directly to Capitol Hill by the Kremlin would be a scandal of such magnitude and gravity that it Will tilt the Earth as it revolves around the Sun. But you don't hear much about it because half of the media in the United States focuses on the “old man likes ice cream” scandal. I also like ice cream.
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Even late-night comedians see the absurdity within the skewed nature of the media's political protection. The response between the press's choice that critical tales like Russia's denial and acceptance of disinformation by Republicans is being given much less precedence than Joe Biden's age, or the truth that the American political press That so many individuals eat ice cream within the U.S. is an actual downside.
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