So, No One Finds It Fishy That the FBI All of a Sudden Threw Its Hunter Biden Source Under the Bus?

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The Democrats think they have killed the Biden impeachment effort. They haven’t, though they’ve been given a very powerful talking point, thanks to the FBI: the source that alleged Biden bribes from Burisma has been charged with making false statements. 

Alexander Smirnov was recently indicted, with the liberal media already harping on slowing down the GOP’s impeachment push on Joe Biden, who was also allegedly paid millions in this scheme. These allegations were detailed in the FD-1023 report that House Republicans had to wrest from the bureau last year. Only after congressional Republicans threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt did the agency hand over the file. It was smoking gun evidence at the time, whose credibility is now in question. Yet, law professor Jonathan Turley wrote about how this doesn’t exonerate the Bidens nor provide the basis to question the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop. Smirnov wasn’t some t-shirt of the week here. He was a trusted intelligence source for years (via NY Post): Read more, see Xs and videos here.

Ron DeSantis Has No Faith Nikki Haley Can Beat Trump

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Former Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) predicted who will secure the 2024 GOP nominee in the race to the White House on Wednesday. 

Speaking with reporters, DeSantis said there is “no question” that former President Trump will sail to victory against Republican candidate Nikki Haley (R-S.C.). 

On Thursday, the two Republican opponents will battle it out in South Carolina, where Trump leads Haley in almost all polls— especially in the Palmetto State. 

DeSantis, who dropped out of the race last month, said that it was clear to him Haley does not have support from a majority of the Republican Party, adding that her strategy of trying to appeal to people who aren’t part of a conservative base for a primary doesn’t work in the long run. 

“Eighty-five percent of the registered Republicans voted for either Trump or me, effectively…so that’s just a big conservative base, right? To try to appeal to people who aren’t a part of that base for a primary — I just didn’t understand that,” DeSantis said.