Now that Donald Trump has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Republicans are whipping out their black lights and diligently searching President Joe Biden’s basement futon for chocolate chip smudges. A party that’s long been ultra-torqued about so-called hoaxes that clearly and demonstrably aren’t hoaxes is now perpetrating a brazen hoax against Biden, and it’s frankly gotten kind of sad.
Of course, while there’s no real reason to believe anything Republicans say—like, at all, or ever—we have particular cause to be skeptical here. First and foremost, the unverified whistleblower report they’re using to claim Biden took $5 million in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company executive was ostensibly brought to the FBI by Lord Fiddle-Pants Magoo, who’s roughly two bottles of scotch and a dodgy Percocet away from claiming the 2020 election was stolen by the Hamburglar.
For another, their witnesses keep mysteriously disappearing or dying—almost as if they never existed at all. On top of that—and perhaps most telling of all—this information was brought to the FBI in 2020 during the Trump administration and was never acted on. If there were anything at all to any of this, the Eye of Sour-Don would have surely alit thereupon and revealed Biden’s perfidy to the wide world. In fact, a spokesperson for Democrats on the Oversight Committee has stated that the FBI “informed the Committee, in no uncertain terms, that this assessment was closed in August 2020 after it failed to...
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