Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY) continued to make unproven claims (below video) that President Joe Biden took $10 million in bribes without any evidence. These non-proven allegations were originally made on June 30, 2020, via an FD 10-23, a form the FBI uses to note unverified information from an unidentified source, reports The Washington Post.
The unproven conspiracy theory was fueled by former President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, reported the New Republic:
Giuliani and Donald Trump first pushed the conspiracy that the Biden family accepted a $10 million bribe to remove former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 to stop a probe into Hunter Biden’s role at the oil company Burisma Holdings.
Several Republican lawmakers say that not only does the FBI form they saw last week mention this bribe but that a Burisma executive has audio recordings of Biden and Hunter Biden accepting the money. Both Anna Paulina Luna and Marjorie Taylor Greene said that executive is Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky. This claim has been repeatedly debunked by multiple State Department and intelligence experts on Russia and Ukraine.
Elise Stefanik claims the unsubstantiated allegations Republicans want to impeach Biden over are "the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, and perhaps the last century, perhaps ever" pic.twitter.com/GBTbSAoET7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2023
The allegations against Joe Biden are damning.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 27, 2023
If they are true, Joe Biden should be impeached, not for high crimes and misdemeanors, but for bribery.
If they are true, he should be removed from office, prosecuted, and jailed for taking millions of dollars of bribes. pic.twitter.com/FhEmLMdYCn
(Sources: The Washington Post, New Republic, Fox Business via Twitter, Fox News via Twitter)