Wednesday morning’s Home Oversight and Accountability Committee listening to, titled “Affect Peddling: Analyzing Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Workplace,” was yet one more probability for Democratic Congress members to embarrass the GOP. Witness Lev Parnas, a former Rudy Giuliani affiliate convicted for marketing campaign finance violations and wire fraud, informed the committee that by Could or June of 2019, it was clear to him and to Giuliani that the “dust” they had been digging up on then-candidate Biden was principally lies concocted by Russian brokers.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin requested Parnas, “How had been you and Giuliani in a position to take these false allegations peddled by corrupt officers and Russian brokers and promote and amplify them right here in america, in our political system? Weren’t media teams skeptical of your claims?”
Most media teams—I’d in all probability say all apart from Fox and some different right-wing media teams—did not need to take any of the knowledge. And that aggravated Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon and different gamers. And the principle group that was being pushed by means of was Fox—Sean Hannity and another media personalities over there. However then there was additionally different folks that had been doing the bidding for the Russians. Individuals in Congress, like Senator Ron Johnson, like Congressman Pete Periods, that sits right here proper now, that was with me from the very starting of this journey into discovering of the – – digging dust on Joe Biden.
In simply over two minutes, Raskin was in a position to verify that:
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The “investigation” into the Biden household’s actions in Ukraine was a politically motivated hoax.
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Giuliani and others knew the data they had been peddling got here from suspicious sources “doing the bidding of” Vladimir Putin.
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Solely Sean Hannity, Fox Information, and different right-wing shops had been prepared to unquestioningly unfold the misinformation to the general public.
All these pesky details maintain undermining Rep. James Comer and his Republican-led committee’s circus performances. And as proven within the video beneath, Fox Information offers with these details by merely chopping them off.
The president of the Middle for American Progress, Patrick Gaspard, joins us to present his ideas on what the Republican Celebration’s precise message is.
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