Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV

Alexander Smirnov, the Russian intelligence-connected disinformation agent the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees have relied on as their chief witness in the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden, was arrested at his lawyer’s office on a warrant from the Central Federal Judicial District of California declaring him a flight risk from prosecution on multiple counts of lying to the FBI.

Smirnov had been spreading the years-old lie that the Bidens, both father and son, had each taken five million dollar bribes to protect a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, from being charged by a Ukrainian prosecutor who had already been fired for corruption unrelated to either Burisma or the Bidens.

In other words, Smirnov’s allegation was that the Bidens were bribed by Burisma for exactly nothing.

Committee Chairmen James Comer and Jim Jordan made statements yesterday that their impeachment investigation will proceed because the lies told by Smirnov to the FBI about the Bidens had no bearing on the “facts” of their inquiry.

Today, he FBI document with Smirnov’s lies about the Bidens that House Republicans have had on their list of evidence supporting Biden’s impeachment disappeared from the committee’s website.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s brother James appeared before staff impeachment investigators from the Oversight and Judiciary Committees yesterday.

Here is what he told them: “I have had a 50-year career in a variety of business ventures. Joe Biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities. None. I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.”

As new House impeachment committee spokesperson Emily Litella put it to the press late this afternoon, “Never mind.”