The Hunter Biden "informant," Alexander Smirnov, was arrested by the FBI for making it up.

On Thursday, the Justice Department announced charges against an FBI informant with inventing the claims that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had hired Hunter Biden as a way of channeling bribes to Joe Biden. David Weiss—the Trump-appointed special counsel who had also levied charges against Hunter Biden—announced the charges, contending the informant had "transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts" into salacious allegations targeting the president. The informant, 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov, had allegedly given agents false information in 2020 and was known to strongly dislike Joe Biden. According to the indictment, Smirnov's story fell apart upon questioning in 2023. He…