Lies can sound like the truth, if you really want to believe them.

Nothing triggers MAGA-Bots more than catching their leaders in politically motivated lies. Few things are as pathetic as their "misdirects."

Smirnov may have been motivated by his expressed political bias against Joe Biden. People provide false information to authorities, on a daily basis, about prominent people or notorious crimes. In most cases, the information is fully vetted before it is publicly endorsed by authorities responsible for taking official action. Once again, the current Republican majority in the House of Representatives has proved itself incapable of acting within the boundaries of generally accepted Norms.

So now the Democrats say the FBI are liars.

The FBI never supported Smirnov's lies. The FBI Special Counsel is the one bringing these charges. It appears that the investigation into Smirnov's lies came from the GOP asking the FBI to corroborate what he told them.

Of course Larry is trying to deflect for the mountain of evidence proving the Bidens took Ukraine bribe money...

Hey Larry,
Your commitment to TDS is commendable.

Is that the same FBI that picked up the LapTop
of Burisma's board member Hunter
from the repair shop guy that called it in?

Blah, blah, blah, Trump triggers me, blah, blah, blah

Saving my country from one mess after another, having seen the Tangerine Tyrant's disastrous mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak, is what "triggers" me. His inability to trust and work with subject matter experts was not an issue until a problem requiring a strong and self-assured leader came along. In his own words, he "listened to Dr. Fauci, then did the opposite of what he said to do." He turned managing a public health crisis into a public farce that played to the lack of knowledge of the importance of universal precautions in the face of what was then a yet to be clearly defined pathogen. It played well to the "groundlings," but cost lives among MAGA contrarians.

Bullshit