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House Republicans try to impeach Joe Biden.
Why? They believe there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the president and his son Hunter Biden accepted bribes or at least engaged in pay-to-play schemes with various countries, and in particular the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
An impeachment inquiry source, Alexander Smirnov, was recently accused of making false statements on the matter to the FBI. Republicans had previously called Smirnov “highly credible” and said his claims were “direct evidence of blatant corruption and bribery.”
This prompted CNN host Abby Phillip to question Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz about Smirnov and his credibility.
And things got interesting.
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“If you want to bribe a 75 year old man, pay his children”
It was an exchange where Phillips seemed to think he got Gaetz, but the congressman had some good, undeniable answers.
Mediate reports: “After questioning Gaetz about the arrest of impeachment inquiry source Alexander Smirnov, who was accused of making false statements to the FBI after claiming that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and his son Hunter Biden $5 million each, Phillip then played a collection of Gaetz colleagues calling Smirnov ‘highly credible’ and his claims ‘direct evidence of blatant corruption and bribery.'”
“When asked if his colleagues’ remarks had been ‘irresponsible,’ Gaetz responded: ‘Some of those characterizations may have been a little, a little bit exaggerated, but I think corruption can go to a family member as well. ” She noticed Mediaite.
The story continued:
He argued: “If you want to bribe a 75-year-old man, you pay his children…”
The CNN host then asked, “Given that, according to Jim Jordan, this was the most corroborating evidence they had, should they drop this impeachment?”
Gaetz replied:
I disagree with Jordan that this is what is most invigorating. I think what’s most invigorating are the payments to Hunter Biden, Frank Biden, and James Biden. I was deposing James Biden and the way they took money from the Chinese government would make your skin crawl. Now, that’s certainly James Biden, not Joe Biden, but I believe that when these foreign governments are loading up the entire Biden family apparatus with money, they’re not doing it to extract some sort of skill or service from these ne’er- you do well Bidens, they do it to influence Joe Biden.
But it wasn’t this smackdown that caught the Internet’s attention.
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Why was Burisma paying Hunter Biden such a large sum of money?
“Everything you described is an inference,” Phillip said. “You haven’t actually provided any evidence for what you’re claiming.”
Gaetz responded: “But Abby, why do you think Burisma was paying Hunter Biden? Do you think they paid him to figure out where to buy crack in Los Angeles? I mean, they paid him because he had access to Joe.
It was a thorny discussion, but Gaetz’s point was still hard to get around: Why exactly would Burisma pay Hunter Biden such a large sum of money?
It certainly wasn’t to buy crack.
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