It is a Yakov Smirnoff joke writ real...
A tale of two Alexs:
In Russia, underpants poop you,
In America, they're just on fire
Alexi Navalny is dead in the custody of the Russian state. Surviving a murder attempt with nerve agent in his underwear, he dies after ‘taking a walk’ at a Arctic Circle penal colony.
In America, the key ‘witness’/whistleblower in the GOP’s Hunter Biden ‘impeachment’, Alexander Smirnov is charged with lying to the FBI.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
Alexander Smirnov falsely reported to the FBI in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said in an indictment. Smirnov told his handler that an executive claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Smirnov in fact had only routine business dealings with the company in 2017 and made the bribery allegations after he “expressed bias” against Joe Biden while he was a presidential candidate.
Smirnov, 43, appeared in court in Las Vegas briefly Thursday after being charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record. He did not enter a plea. The judge ordered the courtroom cleared after federal public defender Margaret Wightman Lambrose requested a closed hearing for arguments about sealing court documents. She declined to comment on the case.
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For Navalny, it was never a matter of if, but when.