AOC and Colbert fuel false claims of Russian influence on Hunter Biden probe, despite debunked evidence. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and late-night host Stephen Colbert have reignited a debunked lie, insisting that the House investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings was launched due to “Russian propaganda.”

“Republican Congressman Mike Turner and Michael McCaul said that Russian propaganda has infected the Republican Party’s base and the Republicans in Congress were repeating Russian propaganda on the House floor. Can I get a witness? Have you seen this?” Colbert asked. “And what do you make of that kind of self-accusation.”

“Yeah, I mean, I think if you turn on any House oversight hearing in the last year, you will see Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and all these folks engaged in wildly propagandistic rhetoric,” Ocasio-Cortez replied.

“And I mean, even let’s just rewind a second. We just went through an impeachment attempt on the president of the United States that that was started with a source that Republicans used that was in communication with Russian intelligence,” she continued, repeating the long-debunked lie.

“So you have not just the bottom bench here, you have the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Representative Comer, take at quote-unquote evidence and account from someone who was working with the Russian intelligence and tried to impeach and remove the President of the United States over it,” she continued. “This is serious.”

In the days following the New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s laptop — which contained emails detailing financial transactions with foreign nationals from China, Ukraine and several other nations — mainstream media outlets and big tech companies worked together to censor the story. They cited a memo circulated by a number of retired intelligence officials, who claimed that the laptop featured all the “hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”