Five days ago on the 23rd of July, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led a group of twenty-three Republican senators in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to commit to protecting agency whistleblowers who disclosed the existence of FBI records alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national.
Chuck Grassley
released an almost unredacted FD-1023 after dire warnings from the FBI.
If you want to pursue the allegation, you do everything you can to protect the FD-1023 and the informant. If you want to fuel a controversy, you release the FD-1023, even at the risk of getting the informant killed.
Fueling controversy is exactly what Grassley has done. Grassley went against FBI recommendations of releasing the FD-1023, risking risk getting the informant killed. Grassley must think that releasing the document is worth having the information killed - anything to ease their panic to do something to stave off the Hunter Biden guilty plea this week - and perhaps to bail Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler (who are represented by lawyers tied to Chuck Grassley) out of wild and in some cases inconsistent claims they made in their House Oversight debut.
Republicans cannot win elections the old fashion way: Doing the hardwork of having a platform that folks will vote for.
Republicans now-a-days will lie, invent, gerrymander, ask officials to 'find' ballots, create fake electors, spread rumor and innuendo against the POTUS' only living son - to win an election.
