During the 2024 election, Russian intelligence secretly worked with an agent, Alexander Smirnov, who planted false information with the FBI, claiming Joe Biden had corrupt ties to Ukraine.

The FBI figured out Smirnov was lying, and he was sentenced to 6 years in prison.

Now Trump’s Justice Department is helping Smirnov get a retrial, which would then allow Trump to get the case dismissed.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/donald-trump-doj-justice-alexander-smirnov-russia-ukraine-burisma-fbi/

Trump’s DOJ is helping a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence

Alexander Smirnov’s lies about Joe Biden were at the core of the GOP’s impeachment drive.

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This Real Live Version of "Risk" sucks. 😒
@randahl there really is no lowest level with this socalled “administration”. And MAGA will rejoice as always even though the rule of law is dead. They don’t care.
@randahl it's treachery to the US and it's in plain sight, all the time.

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Trump is the best investment that Putin ever made

@johndgriffith the best president money can buy.
@randahl Agent Krasnov strikes again!

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During the 2024 election, Russian intelligence secretly worked with an agent, Alexander Smirnov, who planted false information with the FBI, claiming Joe Biden had corrupt ties to Ukraine.

Now Trump’s Justice Department is helping Smirnov get a retrial, which would then allow Trump to get the case dismissed.

Just agent Krasnov (since1987) doing his boss Putin another favour.

@randahl - We all know who he the Orange man has been benefiting.
@randahl The orange man is a Sith Lord of Petty

@randahl As a SA dictator once purportedly said:

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Trump is the festering blob of subhuman pulchritude whose image should be enshrined next to that phrase.

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This isn't about the guy in prison, it's Trump putting pressure on people his state controls completely to get them to give us a story that exonerates Him. He wants us to believe the elections were rigged and this guy was a victim because it casts doubt on Trump's own guilt if people accept that as true.

How's Ms Maxwell?