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Hunter Biden 'disinformation' claim causes meltdown at Senate hearing

[NYPOST] A Senate hearing on irregularities in the 2020 election on Wednesday got heated when GOP Sen. Ron Johnson berated a fellow member for accusing him of spreading "disinformation."Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, went kaboom! at Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) for criticizing his probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and accusing him of "laundering" a foreign influence campaign designed to wound President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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"I have to talk about Russian disinformation. The people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle," Johnson said, accusing Peters of leaking "a false intelligence report" to the media that charged he and veteran Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were "disseminating Russian disinformation."

"Fifty people associated with the intelligence community, after our Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations of the Hunter Biden computer, said, ’Oh, this is Russian disinformation,'" Johnson went on, referring to The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s shadowy overseas business dealings.

"Now we find out it’s a real investigation by the Justice Department," Johnson said, acknowledging the federal tax probe into Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son.

"I can’t sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. This is getting information. We have to take a look at [it] to restore confidence in our election integrity," he said.

Peters pushed back, telling Johnson: "You say I’m putting out information. I had nothing to do with this report."

"You lied repeatedly! You lied repeatedly in the press. That I was spreading Russian disinformation," Johnson shot back.

Posted by Fred 2020-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 We are led by idiots.

This is like a scene from one of those highlight reels of fistfights or chair-throwing on the legislature floor - the kind you see coming out of a place like Turkey or the Philippines or Ecuador or Bumfukistan.

Our governance is rapidly becoming that of a third world clownshow.

Posted by Thang Thretle2466 2020-12-17 03:15|| 2020-12-17 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Our governance is ~~rapidly becoming~~ that of a third world clownshow.

FTFY.

Don't know what we expect, though. When was the last time Congress passed a budget, a Constitutionally mandated duty? Do thy have any conception at all of the amount of money they are making up out of thin air that can never and will never be paid back?

It's theater, all of it, and bad partisan theater at that. It will go on until we hit the wall, which will happen the way Hemingway described going bankrupt:

"Gradually, at first, then suddenly."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-12-17 06:15|| 2020-12-17 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 We need better voters.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-12-17 08:29|| 2020-12-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 We need better live, registered voters.

Posted by Bobby 2020-12-17 12:19|| 2020-12-17 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Pistols at dawn.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-12-17 13:01|| 2020-12-17 13:01|| Front Page Top

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