On Feb. 14, Alexander Smirnov, a key figure in the Republican impeachment inquiries against President Biden, was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI. The Department of Justice alleges that Smirnov’s claims, a key ingredient for much of the GOP investigation, are verifiably false and that Smirnov made those statements knowing that they were untrue. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a leader of the impeachment inquiries, argued that the investigations should continue with or without him.

Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten agrees with Rep. Jordan and casts skepticism on Smirnov’s presumed guilt, arguing that Smirnov was an honest, long-time FBI informant prior to the Biden inquiry. Weingarten also says that Smirnov’s indictment came just after the release of Robert Hur’s report, which he says included damaging observations on President Biden’s cognitive health, and wonders whether that might be more than just coincidence.

Democrats and the media — leveraging the Biden DOJ via Special Counsel David Weiss’ office — have launched an op to discredit the impeachment inquiry and House Republican investigators leading it into the Biden family international influence peddling scheme, and the DOJ and Weiss’ alleged obstruction of the investigation of that scheme.

They started the op less than a week after the bombshell claims in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that not only had President Biden unlawfully retained classified documents he took as a vice president and senator, but that he was in cognitive decline to such a degree that DOJ wouldn’t prosecute him because it felt a jury would feel too bad for him on the stand in his diminished condition to convict.