Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is doubling down on false claims that President Trump's Justice Department had halted a corruption allegation into President Biden and ended the investigation due to a lack of evidence.
On Thursday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified FBI record describing an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive so that the American people can "read this document for themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats."
The document, an FD-1023 form, alleged that Biden and his son Hunter "coerced" Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired.
After its release, Raskin fired off a statement claiming the "secondhand claims recorded in the Form 1023" had "already been investigated and dismissed by the Trump DOJ."
"Releasing this document in isolation from explanatory context is another transparently desperate attempt by Committee Republicans to revive the aging and debunked Giuliani-framed conspiracy theories and to distract from their continuing failure to produce any actual evidence of wrongdoing by the President—even at the cost of endangering the safety of FBI sources," Raskin wrote in the press...
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