Remember the hit song, "Lyin' eyes?" Here's a real-life story that might drive some to tears.
For what seems like forever, Fox News and its right-wing media cohorts have accused Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, of engaging in an illicit $10 million bribery scheme to enrich themselves and sell out America.
As Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, U.S. Reps. James Comer, Jim Jordan and others tell the story, they claim an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid for access to then-Vice President Biden to improperly wield his influence and help squash an investigation led by a Ukrainian prosecutor into the company.
Evidence of the bribery scheme always has been iffy, at best, but that never stopped Hannity and his friends from pouncing on the Bidens when a supposedly “highly credible” FBI informant claimed to have smoking gun evidence of the conspiracy.
Here's the problem with their story: The informant, Alexander Smirnov, made the whole story up, federal authorities said yesterday after arresting him in Las Vegas.
Special counsel David Weiss, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney before assuming his current role, charged Smirnov with lying to the FBI and falsifying records. According to the indictment, Smirnov provided “false, derogatory information” about Biden to the law enforcement agency. His story to the FBI “was a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings,” it said.
Oh my. I wonder if the right-wing media and members of Congress will ever dry their lyin' eyes about Joe and Hunter Biden?
-DF
Doesn't matter what the truth is, they desperately want to believe what this charlatan trump says. It is very sad that people can be so easily misled.