Olde Hornet
Well-Known Member
As I'm sure you've heard there was a big back and forth between the Justice Department, which did not want to release the document, and the House, which demanded it be turned over lest they hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. The FBI finally agreed to show a redacted version to members of Congress and they very excitedly reported that the document revealed that Zlochevsky told the informant that there were tapes of Joe and Hunter Biden accepting a bribe to fire the prosecutor in order to stop an investigation that didn't exist. (No one knows if these tapes exist either — which even Comer, Grassley and Johnson have been forced to admit.)
Now Comer and the committee can't find their whistleblowers and Giuliani is claiming his informant was killed and everyone knows it must be that the Biden Crime Family is doing something terrible to their enemies. None of it makes any sense but that's really the point. The confusion and the contradictions and the possibility of tapes are all that's needed to create a lot of smoke that their voters can claim proves that Biden is the real criminal for which the Trump investigations have been created to provide cover.
The right has done this sort of thing for years. Just look back at some of the ridiculous "investigations" they launched during the 1990s. It works for them. Normal people can see that it's all a joke but it feeds into the overall impression that everyone in Washington is corrupt anyway. And today the person who benefits most from that belief is the presidential candidate who is under numerous investigations and indictments with more to come. If they all do it, what he did must not be all that bad, right?
