Sen. Chuck Grassley argued Tuesday his decision last year to make public bribery allegations leveled against President Biden and his son Hunter by a confidential FBI source led to the man’s February indictment on charges of lying to his handler.
“Except for my listening to the Department of Justice and FBI whistleblowers, that ‘highly credible’ liar would still be on the FBI payroll, continuing to lie to the FBI, and maybe continuing to get people convicted that shouldn’t be convicted,” the 90-year-old Grassley (R-Iowa) told a symposium on the “weaponization of media, lawfare, and the Hunter Biden investigation” at the conservative Heritage Foundation in the nation’s capital.
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, was charged by special counsel David Weiss Feb. 15 in Los Angeles with one count of making a false statement to a government official and one count of creating a false and fictitious record.
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