<p>The case against a longtime <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> informant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/informant-charged-with-allegedly-lying-to-fbi-about-bidens-role-with-ukrainian-gas-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of fabricating a multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and his son <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> is not a game-changer, a top House GOP investigator argued on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) said the indictment against Alexander Smirnov and his claims of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-informant-accused-of-lying-about-bidens-claimed-to-have-russian-intel-contacts-doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">having contacts with Russian intelligence officials</a> do not &#8220;change the four fundamental facts&#8221; tied to <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1667203652199780353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burisma Holdings</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mtg-says-bribery-allegations-against-biden-linked-to-burisma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukrainian gas company</a> that employed Hunter Biden on its board for several years, and Joe Biden pressing Ukrainian officials to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/emails-show-biden-corruption-allegations-sent-to-federal-prosecutor-in-2018-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire a top prosecutor in the country</a>, Viktor Shokin, when the elder Biden served as vice president.</p>
<p>Fact number one is Hunter Biden was &#8220;put on the board of Burisma, gets paid a million dollars a year,&#8221; Jordan said during an exchange with CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju. The second fact, according to Jordan, was &#8220;he&#8217;s not qualified to be on the board. He said so himself in an interview,&#8221; an apparent reference to Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9439907/Hunter-Biden-admits-Burisma-hired-family-name.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying he was hired</a> because of his family name.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Raju: You said the 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information </p>
<p>Jordan: It doesn&#39;t change those fundamental facts</p>
<p>Raju: But it&#39;s not true. <a href="https://t.co/Jhfsa8ErK0">pic.twitter.com/Jhfsa8ErK0</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1760320971544641912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Jordan said the third fact concerned executives at Burisma asking Hunter Biden, &#8220;Can you weigh in with D.C. and help us deal with the pressure we are facing from the prosecutor?&#8221; He was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intimidated-biden-brand-helped-ukrainian-company-survive-hunters-ex-associate-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alluding to testimony</a> by Devon Archer, who also served on the board of the company. &#8220;Fact number four, Joe Biden then goes to Ukraine&#8221; days <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Devon-Archer-Transcript.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after a call was made</a> and &#8220;conditions the release of &#8230; American tax money on the firing of the prosecutor who was applying the pressure&#8221; to Burisma, Jordan added.</p>
<p>Raju asked a follow-up question, pressing Jordan on his prior assertion that an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-biden-bribery-file-released-burisma-head-says-he-was-coerced-into-paying-bidens-10-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI-generated FD-1023</a> form with Smirnov&#8217;s claims that Burisma executives paid $5 million in bribes to the Bidens was the <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1760110914810822836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;most corroborating&#8221;</a> evidence for GOP investigators in their impeachment inquiry. &#8220;It corroborates but it doesn&#8217;t change those fundamental facts,&#8221; Jordan said.</p>
<p>The Ohio Republican made similar points in another exchange with reporters outside the deposition of James Biden, a brother of President Joe Biden, for the impeachment inquiry. Hunter Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-announce-new-date-for-hunter-biden-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected to testify</a> before congressional investigators next week.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> on the indictment of ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov: &quot;It is what it is. It doesn&#39;t change the fundamental facts.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fobfw5SWyj">pic.twitter.com/fobfw5SWyj</a></p>
<p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1760331976714633374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>A top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1760367836868784306" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Tuesday that the impeachment investigation &#8220;essentially ended … with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov&#8217;s allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents.&#8221; He also <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1760383177410191550" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on House Republicans to &#8220;fold up the tent to this circus show. It’s really over at this point.”</p>
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<p>The House Oversight Committee, which under Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is spearheading the impeachment inquiry, said the FBI and Department of Justice &#8220;have a lot of explaining to do about their reliance on the informant whose allegations were included&#8221; in the FD-1023 form.</p>
<p>Three questions were <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1760281451893834010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed in a post to X</a>: &#8220;Why did they use this informant, who officials claimed was highly credible, since 2010?&#8221;; &#8220;Why did they pay the informant six figures?&#8221;; and &#8220;Why did the DOJ sit on serious allegations from the informant whom the FBI deemed highly credible for years before investigating the claims?&#8221; The panel added, &#8220;The American people deserve answers.&#8221;</p>

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