Current Events > Republicans don't know if Biden bribery tapes exist.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-admit-they-dont-know-if-biden-bribery-tapes-really-exist

In recent weeks, and especially since former President Donald Trump was arraigned on federal charges of willfully mishandling classified documents, Republicans and right-wing media have been running wild with unsubstantiated claims about a foreign bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden.

The story really grew legs in the conservative media ecosphere this week when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) hyped up the potential existence of audio tapes proving Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian energy company while he was vice president. Citing an FD-1023, an FBI document memorializing a tip from a confidential source, Grassley noted that a source told the feds in 2020 that a Burisma executive claimed to be in possession of 17 recordings of Biden and his son Hunter discussing the criminal scheme.

According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden, Grassley said from the Senate floor on Monday. These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.

He added: So, as Ive repeatedly asked since going public with the existence of the 1023, what, if anything, has the Justice Department and FBI done to investigate?

Yet, while top GOP lawmakers have breathlessly promoted these purported tapes as an absolute bombshell proving the corruption of the president and his family, theyve simultaneously acknowledged that these recordings may not exist at all and could be just a bluff.

Of course it was.

Exactly like the Trump tape from Russia. None of this stuff ever exists lol

Republicans have nothing but lies and falsehoods to offer.

Humble_Novice posted...

Republicans have nothing but lies and falsehoods to offer.

i mean thats all they ever have

Oh, you're missing the source of the tapes.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) suggested on a program called The Conservative Circus that not only might the tapes not exist, but also that the foreign national who spoke to the FBI informant might lack credibility. (Some Republicans on the Oversight Committee have said the source is former Burisma executive Mykola Zlochevksy, a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch.)

We dont know really if the tapes exist, we just dont know that, whether this was just a bluff on the part of, whoever the executive was, I think it was Mykola Zlochevsky, the CEO of the... the corrupt oligarch, Johnson said.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1668600348414492672

On Faux News a few day ago all the smug dipshits and screeching harpies on "the 5 jackasses" were honking about this.

"ReLeAsE ThE tApES!"

Lol, the right is so fucking gullible.

every new accusation they have about Biden just ends up proving how not corrupt he is

The Conservative Circus

the lack of self awareness is great

This would be the absolute perfect goddamn time for the pee tapes to end up being real