The usual dark conspiracies were spun with plenty of what-abouts thrown in. The usual fact-free questions were asked, and the usual Christofascist MAGAts like Reps. "Gym" Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Chip Roy, and Harriet Hageman were asking them. And once again, the hearing intended to expose the FBI's (!) bias against conservatives and love of the Bidens blew up in their simian faces:
... [T]he steaming hot conspiracy bubbles belching up from the right-wing fever swamps are occasionally pierced by facts, and a rather thunderous bubble-popping took place Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring FBI Director Christopher Wray. [snip]
So the Republicans who want to defund and discredit the FBI, the ones who eagerly dragged the FBI director through the mud Wednesday with absurd allegations grounded in zero facts, want you, the American people, to believe this: The nation’s premier law enforcement agency has been weaponized against Republicans under a director who is a lifelong Republican and who reached his current post by being selected and confirmed to positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led Senate bodies.
Forget that all this is in defense of former President Donald Trump, a one-term, twice-impeached lifelong con artist who now faces more than 70 felony charges in two cases, with more indictments on the horizon.
Forget that Hunter Biden was actually charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm offense.
Forget that, despite relentless investigation, Republicans have produced nothing linking President Biden to his son’s activity, or the fact that the person they touted as a key whistleblower was just charged with arms trafficking and acting as an unregistered agent for China.
This is a standard part of the Republican playbook: "When your guy is a proven charlatan, make up stuff about their guy" (viz., Obama's birth certificate, her emails, etc.). Their guy, the Malignant Loser, is a national security risk, pathological liar, deranged narcissist, crook and cheat, sexual assaulter, would-be dictator. Ours is... Joe Biden. Time to weaponize government! So, get the smear bucket out, time's a-wastin'!
As California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu noted,
“It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals,” Lieu concluded. “Donald Trump brought that upon himself. Thank you to the FBI for exposing the cesspool of corruption of these Trump associates.”
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