A top House GOP investigator argued on Wednesday that the case against a longtime FBI informant who is accused of creating a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden is not revolutionary.
The indictment of Alexander Smirnov and his allegations of having contacts with Russian intelligence officials, according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), do not “change the four fundamental facts” linking Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that hired Hunter Biden for several years as a board member, and Joe Biden’s pressure on Ukrainian authorities to remove Viktor Shokin, the nation’s top prosecutor, during the elder Biden’s vice presidential term.
During an exchange with CNN’s Manu Raju, Jordan argued that “fact number one” is that Hunter Biden was “put on the board of Burisma and gets paid a million dollars a year.”
The second fact, according to Jordan, was that “he’s not qualified to be on the board. He said so himself in an interview,” a reference to Hunter Biden saying he was hired because of his family name.
