What A Difference 4 Days Make

Gal Luft, a very credible witness on Biden family corruption, provided incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the DOJ in a meeting in Brussels in March 2019.

We have no reason to believe the FBI & DOJ acted on this info.

Americans deserve answers. @NEWSMAX pic.twitter.com/FpbKvn13zC

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) July 7, 2023

That would be this guy:

Gal Luft was apparently indicted last year, arrested this year and skipped bail a few months ago. Yet the right, always desperate to add more air to their deflating conspiracy theories, suggest that the timing of unsealing the indictment is suspicious. https://t.co/SpMVgF0pF9

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 11, 2023

Gal Luft was charged on November 1, 2022.

OMIGOSH @JamesComer, it turns out you're a whack conspiracy theorist proven wrong again!!!! pic.twitter.com/NsxwQCCz36

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 11, 2023

James Comer's Imaginary Whistleblower Friend, Gal Luft, Was Charged Last November for Lying in that March 2019 Meetinghttps://t.co/CCNWGvm5pl

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 11, 2023

In recent weeks, Comer’s imaginary whistleblower friend was identified as Gal Luft. He disappeared because he skipped bail in Cyprus on an arrest warrant from the US. 

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A few days ago, Luft did a video, naming the prosecutors he met with at that meeting and daring DOJ to unseal his indictment. So they did. The November 1, 2022 indictment, by the same two prosecutors, charges Luft with a range of sanctions violations and serving as a Foreign Agent of China. The FARA violation alleges he insinuated someone who looks a lot like James Woolsey into the Trump Administration on the payroll of CEFC. 

The date is important: He was charged before he started regaling dim-witted Chairmen about dirt on Hunter Biden. This prosecution can’t be about retaliation for the conspiracy theories he told Comer — the indictment precedes it all by months.

There it is: the irony of that chyron . Of course Luft alleged China had access to the White House. In 2019 he was investigated for being an unregistered Chinese agent.

What a difference 4 days make.

Oh, by the way, just to underline this:

The guy was indicted under seal before the midterms. https://t.co/FuqGj94QAv

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) July 11, 2023

And the timing of the allegations:

"The understood order of events suggests not that Luft charged because he made public allegations but, instead, that he made public allegations after he had been charged." https://t.co/03JeNxRMwG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 11, 2023

Yeah, this is as watertight as anything the GOP does these days.