Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch Republicans claim may have handed Biden a $5 million bribe, said he never had contact with Biden while he was vice president.
—which ironically included foreign money payments from a Russian donor to U.S. politicians. At the time, the document had not been made public.
Rep. James Comer , to whom the letter is addressed, and Sen. Chuck Grassley have boasted that a whistleblower informed them of an FBI document, classified as a FD-1023, in which a confidential source detailed the bribery scheme. Right-wingers have also run wild with claims of incriminating “audio tapes” the source boasts of holding—but Comer has said he won’t rule out that it’s “just a bluff.”
Raskin’s letter affirms the questionnaire’s statements “directly contradict and refute” the FD-1023 document, describing the document as full of “unsubstantiated, second-hand hearsay allegations.” “Mr. Zlochevsky’s statements are just one of the many that have debunked the corruption allegations against President Biden that were first leveled by Rudy Giuliani and have been reviewed by former President Trump’s own Justice Department,” he wrote.
Comer did not comment on Zlochevsky’s answers on the document Thursday, but he reiterated his call for the public release of the FD-1023 document, according to
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