The $10M Biden Bribe Claim: What Really Happened?
In June 2020, FBI informant Alexander Smirnov told his handler that Burisma's owner had told him he paid $5 million to Joe Biden and $5 million to his son, Hunter ($10M in all, by our arithmetic). Republicans made the FBI's record of that claim public in July 2023. Smirnov later pleaded guilty to causing a false FBI record and admitted the events he described "were fabrications." Side A, Democrats and other critics, says he made it up, President Trump's own Justice Department had closed the 2020 review, and Republicans sold it as strong evidence anyway; Side B, the Republicans who made it public, says they never vouched for the story, published the whole report, and it was the FBI that trusted and paid the man who made it up. Then the part nobody talks about: what this same informant told the FBI about Hunter Biden three years earlier.
Release: Tue Oct 27, 3 PM ET
