SPOILER ALERT: Sen. Ron Johnson's much-hyped report on Joe Biden and Burisma is an 87-page rehash of previously known allegations (with minimal, if any, evidence), news articles and impeachment testimony.
Story w @AndrewDesiderio shortly
@AndrewDesiderio The report leads with Geoge Kent, a State Department official, saying Hunter BIden's role at Burisma was "awkward." Kent testified twice during impeachment to the same "perception" issue.
@AndrewDesiderio Ten of the interim report's 87 pages are dedicated to countering Democratic attacks and pushing back on reporting that Johnson and Grassley were fueling narratives that dovetailed with a Russian disinformation effort.
@AndrewDesiderio Also congrats @adamentous, your story on the Bidens is cited more frequently in the report than the live testimony the committee got from Amos Hochstein or Victoria Nuland. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous NEW: The GOP senators' BIDEN report is a rehash of old conflict-of-interest claims, with few new details, about Hunter Biden. It provides no evidence of any impact on U.S. policy.
politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous IMPORTANT: Many of the claims about Hunter Biden's financial connections are attributed to "confidential documents," which the report cites about 100 times.
Makes it impossible to know if these are business records, government filings, or something else. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous MORE: Democrats emphasize that the report's most salacious claims about Hunter Biden are built on Treasury "suspicious activity reports" — unverified filings that they say have never been used publicly this way by a congressional committee.
politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
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