Biden Demands Impeachment Over Ties to Hunter’s Business Deals ‘PASSED’ After FBI Informant Accused of Lying that the President and His Son Received $5 Million Bribes from Burisma

Joe Biden demanded Friday that impeachment proceedings against him be dropped after a key witness was accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving the president, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.

Republicans insist Biden and his family have corruptly used his foreign connections to enrich themselves, but have struggled to produce evidence.

This week it emerged that an FBI informant was accused of lying about payments from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.

“He’s lying,” Biden said when asked for his response on Friday.

“It should be scrapped and it’s just been an outrageous effort from the start.”

Special counsel David Weiss has accused a former FBI informant of lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden taking $5 million in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Alexander Smirnov, 43, is charged with making a false statement and creating a false record for statements he made to the FBI in 2020. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.

He was arrested Thursday at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after arriving in the United States and appeared in federal court later that day.

Court records show that Smirnov told the FBI that he had a conversation with Burisma’s owner in March 2017 about acquiring a company in the US.

He alleged that executives connected to Burisma paid Hunter and his father $5 million in 2015 and 2016, and that one executive claimed to have hired the younger Biden onto the board to “protect us, through his father, from all kinds of problems.”

But prosecutors say Smirnov had routine contact with Burisma executives in 2017, after Biden was no longer vice president and had no influence over policy.

Smirnov ‘transformed his routine and unusual business dealings with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive candidate of one of the two major political parties for the presidency, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy,” the Prime Minister said. complaint said.

Democrats seized on the development as evidence that Republicans were operating in bad faith.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said:It is an undeniable fact that Republicans’ allegations against President Biden have always been a fabric of lies built on conspiracy theories, and I formally call on Chairman Johnson, Chairman Comer, and House Republicans to stop promoting of this nonsense and put an end to their doomed impeachment inquiry. ‘

Representative James Comer, chairman of the committee, which led the impeachment proceedings, downplayed Smirnov’s significance.

“To be clear, the impeachment investigation is not dependent on the FBI’s FD-1023,” he said in a statement, referring to the form documenting Smirnov’s allegations.

The charges against Smirnov were filed by Special Prosecutor David Weiss.

Biden gave his response after a speech on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

“We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that Nalvany’s death was a result of something that Putin and his thugs did,” he said at the White House.

He added that he is considering further steps to punish Russia and Vladimir Putin’s regime.