Published: Columbia Gorge News, 2/28/24
My hope is that those who get most of their “news” from the Fox/Newsmax/Bannon/X universe have at least heard that the star witness for the Biden impeachment inquiry has been arrested and indicted for giving false testimony that he, Alexander Smirnov, was fed by Russian Intelligence officers. Jim Jordan and James Comer, of the Judiciary and the Oversight Committees, are spearheading this impeachment inquiry. Both have previously said that this “credible witness’s testimony” was at the heart of their inquiry. Is this what we have come to?: A Russian plant feeding Congress Russian lies and propaganda, with leading Republicans parroting it back in an effort to discredit Joe Biden, and give Putin’s pal, Donald Trump, a Kremlin leg-up in the coming election?
Really? Do you want to be on the side of dictator thugs who can kill their opposition leaders, like Alexi Navalny and defectors like the Russian pilot who fled to Ukraine and then settled in Spain where he was just gunned down? Putin also just jailed a Russian-American woman who donated $52 to Ukraine, as well as hundreds of people who were honoring Navalny after his probable murder. And that doesn’t include imprisoned journalists, including an American Wall Street Journal reporter. Let’s hope he doesn’t get the bone saw team from that Saudi “prince of a man”, MBS! Are these the folks that the Republican Party now looks to for talking points and political assistance? Trump’s words in 2016 still echo, “Russia, are you listening?”