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This is just too funny. Hunter's father's AG appoints a. special counsel who is working for Russia.
These people are nuts, next they'll be arguing who is and who isn't a counterrevolutionary.
Maybe they'll set up firing squads and start shooting each other. One can hope.
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These people are nuts, next they'll be arguing who is and who isn't a counterrevolutionary.
Maybe they'll set up firing squads and start shooting each other. One can hope.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys are arguing a special counsel appointed by President Biden’s Justice Department is doing the bidding of Russian intelligence officials.
The defense attorneys, led by Abbe D. Lowell, suggested in a court filing on Monday that special counsel David Weiss’s criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden is carrying out the mission of Russian intelligence officials.
Biden’s attorneys are attempting to connect Weiss’s prosecution of Hunter Biden on federal tax and gun charges to the indictment of disgraced ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who Weiss is prosecuting for false statements to the FBI alleging Hunter and Joe Biden received bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.
“This case illustrates the very continuing harm identified by the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel tells us Russian intelligence sought to influence the U.S. presidential election by using allegations against Hunter Biden to hurt President Biden’s reelection,” the filing reads. The supplemental filing is part of Hunter Biden’s argument for selective prosecution by Weiss.
Weiss and his team of prosecutors revealed Smirnov’s apparent ties to Russian intelligence in a memo last month argued for keeping him detained while awaiting trial. Biden’s attorneys referenced the information disclosed by the special counsel to cast doubt on the special counsel’s prosecution.
“In these actions, the Special Counsel has done exactly what the Russian intelligence operation desired by initiating prosecutions against Mr. Biden,” the document adds.
Smirnov’s discredited allegations were memorialized by the FBI in June 2020 and publicized by Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) in July. The former informant claimed Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings gave Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each and alleged Zlochevsky possessed evidence showing he was coerced to make the bribes.
Grassley said in a speech on the Senate floor last month that the FBI believed Smirnov to be credible, and his identity was unknown to lawmakers prior to his indictment.
The claims Smirnov made are not connected to the alleged tax and gun offenses for which Biden is being prosecuted. Hunter Biden is facing nine federal tax charges connected to his alleged failure to pay over $1 million in taxes over tax years 2016–2019 and three federal gun charges related to his purchase of a firearm in 2018 while he was using crack cocaine.
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The defense attorneys, led by Abbe D. Lowell, suggested in a court filing on Monday that special counsel David Weiss’s criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden is carrying out the mission of Russian intelligence officials.
Biden’s attorneys are attempting to connect Weiss’s prosecution of Hunter Biden on federal tax and gun charges to the indictment of disgraced ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who Weiss is prosecuting for false statements to the FBI alleging Hunter and Joe Biden received bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.
“This case illustrates the very continuing harm identified by the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel tells us Russian intelligence sought to influence the U.S. presidential election by using allegations against Hunter Biden to hurt President Biden’s reelection,” the filing reads. The supplemental filing is part of Hunter Biden’s argument for selective prosecution by Weiss.
Weiss and his team of prosecutors revealed Smirnov’s apparent ties to Russian intelligence in a memo last month argued for keeping him detained while awaiting trial. Biden’s attorneys referenced the information disclosed by the special counsel to cast doubt on the special counsel’s prosecution.
“In these actions, the Special Counsel has done exactly what the Russian intelligence operation desired by initiating prosecutions against Mr. Biden,” the document adds.
Smirnov’s discredited allegations were memorialized by the FBI in June 2020 and publicized by Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) in July. The former informant claimed Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings gave Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each and alleged Zlochevsky possessed evidence showing he was coerced to make the bribes.
Grassley said in a speech on the Senate floor last month that the FBI believed Smirnov to be credible, and his identity was unknown to lawmakers prior to his indictment.
The claims Smirnov made are not connected to the alleged tax and gun offenses for which Biden is being prosecuted. Hunter Biden is facing nine federal tax charges connected to his alleged failure to pay over $1 million in taxes over tax years 2016–2019 and three federal gun charges related to his purchase of a firearm in 2018 while he was using crack cocaine.
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Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Suggest Prosecution Is Linked to Russian Intel | National Review
The president’s son and his attorneys are looking to connect Weiss’s prosecution of Biden on tax and gun charges to the indictment of disgraced informant Alexander Smirnov.
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