Salon Article RatingRepublicans' impeachment farce implodes with indictment of star Biden "informant"
Feb 16, 2024 View Original Article
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| "One of the red flags, as I noted at the time, was the fact that this five million dollar bribe seemed to be a sloppy conflation with a five million dollar bribe that was revealed in September 2020 when they arrested three Burisma executives for offering five million dollars to Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and which the Ukrainian government went to pained lengths to say neither Hunter Biden nor Joe Biden had anything to do with." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "this is about the big guy himself, Joe Biden, a corrupt career politician who is now very credibly accused of public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "When the Republicans took over the House in 2023, they went full steam ahead with their investigation of those same moldy facts, following the orders of their leader Donald Trump who has demanded that they impeach Joe Biden at least once as payback for Trump's first impeachment which, not coincidentally, was also centered around Ukraine." | Negative | -76% Liberal |
| "The Republican inquisitors get a tip that somebody's got the goods on the Biden family and they fan out to the right-wing media to hail the news that they've finally nabbed the Big Guy." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Oh, and by the way, this is the second major Comer witness to be indicted." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But, apparently, Smirnov couldn't have had that conversation in 2016 because he met with officials from Burisma for the first time in 2017, after [Biden] left office in January 2017." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family's business dealings." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "After months of obfuscation from the FBI and the DOJ, that FD-1023 form that documented allegations of bribery from a trusted FBI confidential human source has now finally been released, thanks to Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Media Matters has tracked Fox News' obsession with this story for some time:Haity's show aired at least 85 Hunter Biden segments in 2023 promoting the dubiously sourced and wholly unproven notion that Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch who controlled Burisma, paid a $5 million bribe to Joe Biden." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "And lordy, they said there were tapes of Biden and Hunter being bribed, electrifying the right-wing media and leading to hours of feverish iuendo on Fox News and other outlets." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The indictment says that Smirnov's meetings with Burisma were unremarkable pitch meetings, not discussions of bribes to then-VP Biden." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The alleged crime at the center of the impeachment probe is still that ridiculous claim that then vice president Joe Biden was working on behalf of his son's business, Burisma, in Ukraine when he pushed the government to fire a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, whom they claim was investigating the company." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "(He also wants both of his impeachments expunged like they are a juvie record or something but it looks like that will have to wait until he's restored to the White House.)Republicans had been hinting around that they'd found a smoking gun in the case for some time with House Oversight Chair James Comer, R- Ky., and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley flamboyantly aouncing last May that they'd sent a letter to the Justice Department stating that there was evidence of an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions and demanding that the department release this damning evidence to the public." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "(He also wants both of his impeachments expunged like they are a juvie record or something but it looks like that will have to wait until he's restored to the White House.)Republicans had been hinting around that they'd found a smoking gun in the case for some time with House Oversight Chair James Comer, R- Ky., and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley flamboyantly aouncing last May that they'd sent a letter to the Justice Department stating that there was evidence of an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions and demanding that the department release this damning evidence to the public." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "(He also wants both of his impeachments expunged like they are a juvie record or something but it looks like that will have to wait until he's restored to the White House.)Republicans had been hinting around that they'd found a smoking gun in the case for some time with House Oversight Chair James Comer, R- Ky., and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley flamboyantly aouncing last May that they'd sent a letter to the Justice Department stating that there was evidence of an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions and demanding that the department release this damning evidence to the public." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Grassley took the lead in leaking out tidbits of information about this evidence which was attributed to an FBI confidential informant who had been informed of the bribe by a Ukrainian businessman." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Here's a bit of the one Haity gave on the day Grassley released the document:There are now real and growing concerns that your president, the president of our country, is compromised." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Smirnov's accusation was cited over and over as the main basis for the impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden, despite the fact that they knew the information was unverified:Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer?" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)The Biden impeachment inquiry seems to attract witnesses who turn out to be con artists and criminals for some reason." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Comer even threatened the FBI with contempt if they didn't turn over the documents immediately." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "One of the red flags, as I noted at the time, was the fact that this five million dollar bribe seemed to be a sloppy conflation with a five million dollar bribe that was revealed in September 2020 when they arrested three Burisma executives for offering five million dollars to Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and which the Ukrainian government went to pained lengths to say neither Hunter Biden nor Joe Biden had anything to do with." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "James Comer issued a statement expressing no remorse for his role and even criticized the FBI for not being forthcoming about its investigation of his big witness, despite the fact that he and Grassley made the whole thing public over their protests." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "James Comer issued a statement expressing no remorse for his role and even criticized the FBI for not being forthcoming about its investigation of his big witness, despite the fact that he and Grassley made the whole thing public over their protests." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Informant Alexander Smirnov, the indictment reads, transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Biden] and his candidacy." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Informant Alexander Smirnov, the indictment reads, transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Biden] and his candidacy." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "this is about the big guy himself, Joe Biden, a corrupt career politician who is now very credibly accused of public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "When the Republicans took over the House in 2023, they went full steam ahead with their investigation of those same moldy facts, following the orders of their leader Donald Trump who has demanded that they impeach Joe Biden at least once as payback for Trump's first impeachment which, not coincidentally, was also centered around Ukraine." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "When the Republicans took over the House in 2023, they went full steam ahead with their investigation of those same moldy facts, following the orders of their leader Donald Trump who has demanded that they impeach Joe Biden at least once as payback for Trump's first impeachment which, not coincidentally, was also centered around Ukraine." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "When the Republicans took over the House in 2023, they went full steam ahead with their investigation of those same moldy facts, following the orders of their leader Donald Trump who has demanded that they impeach Joe Biden at least once as payback for Trump's first impeachment which, not coincidentally, was also centered around Ukraine." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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31% : One of the red flags, as I noted at the time, was the fact that this five million dollar bribe seemed to be a "sloppy conflation with a five million dollar bribe that was revealed in September 2020 when they arrested three Burisma executives for offering five million dollars to Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and which the Ukrainian government went to pained lengths to say neither Hunter Biden nor Joe Biden had anything to do with."14% : this is about the big guy himself, Joe Biden, a corrupt career politician who is now very credibly accused of public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.
12% : When the Republicans took over the House in 2023, they went full steam ahead with their investigation of those same moldy facts, following the orders of their leader Donald Trump who has demanded that they impeach Joe Biden at least once as payback for Trump's first impeachment which, not coincidentally, was also centered around Ukraine.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.