John,
Here's one of the least surprising yet still shocking things you will read in a while: Lauren Boebert, and right wing extremists like Jim Jordan, has been promoting Russian lies and propaganda in her vain quest to impeach Joe Biden.
Last year, Boebert led the charge to force then-Speaker McCarthy's hand on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. The crux of the case was always thin, but it rested on allegations made by Alexander Smirnov—a man who was just indicted by the DOJ for completely fabricating claims that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted $5 million bribes from Ukrainian company Burisma.
And now it turns out that Smirnov met with known Russian intelligence agents and passed along disinformation fed to him by Russia. Boebert, and others like Jordan and Oversight Chair James Comer, have repeated this Russian disinformation enthusiastically, and without question, for months.
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