“Republicans have cited an unverified report by an FBI informant to allege that Joe Biden and his son Hunter took a bribe from a Ukrainian company.”
What FactCheck.org found
Alexander Smirnov was indicted for providing “false derogatory information to the FBI” about Joe and Hunter Bidenin 2020 after Biden became a presidential candidate.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (Former House Speaker) made this claim around 13 December 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 February 2024, 66 days later. Its rating was “Informant Indicted For Lying”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?530391-1/house-speaker-mccarthy-news-conference-impeachment…
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