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WASHINGTON — Republicans deleted a reference to a discredited FBI informant in a letter they sent on Tuesday to a potential witness in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
The informant’s false information supported the main corruption allegation Republicans have pursued against Biden, namely that as vice president, in 2015 and 2016, he pushed out a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to protect Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that employed his son on its board.
Smirnov’s credibility did not come into doubt until prosecutors followed up with him last year in an effort to confirm his report from 2020, thoughdid caution that one of his claims ― that Zlochevsky, who is not known as an English speaker, recorded conversations with the Bidens ―Comer has said despite losing their best piece of corroborating evidence against the Bidens, the impeachment inquiry will carry on, with a focus on Joe Biden’s unproven involvement in his son’s business deals.
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