Grassley, Johnson demand FBI interview, say previous meeting on Hunter probe pushed false Russian disinfo tale
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Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are asking FBI agents who gave them an "unnecessary" briefing in 2020 on their Hunter Biden probe appear for a transcribed Senate interview next month.
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"On August 6, 2020, as we were finishing our September 23, 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s financial connections to foreign governments and questionable foreign nationals, you provided a briefing to us on behalf of the FBI and Intelligence Community," the senators wrote, adding that the briefing was "unnecessary and was only done because of pressure from our Democratic colleagues, including Democratic leadership, to falsely attack our Biden investigation as advancing Russian disinformation."
Johnson and Grassley were working at the time on a joint investigation into Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings and his "extensive and complex financial transactions."