We now know more about why a key witness in the House GOP's sordid tale of an investigation has supposedly gone "missing." He was on the lam after having been indicted way back in November — even before Republicans won the House majority — for allegedly acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and arms trafficker to the Middle East and Africa.
The man is Gal Luft, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen and D.C. energy policy think-tanker who made a stunning claim in February: that his arrest in Cyprus on a U.S. extradition warrant was not, in fact, what it seemed.
Rather, Luft claimed, he was the victim of an international conspiracy that reached to the highest levels of American power, a whistleblower being persecuted at the direction of the vindictive Biden family.
"DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe,Jim&Hunter Biden," he wrote on Twitter. "Shall I name names?"
In spite of the persecution claim being transparently self-serving, Luft did have something real to offer: He worked with CEFC, a Chinese energy firm which, the Washington Post reported last year, transferred $4.8 million to Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden for consulting work on projects that never came to fruition.
The right pounced.
House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo in March that he was trying to get in touch with Luft, calling him the "straw that broke the camel's back."
The New York Post ran a series of stories about Luft, written by opinion contributor Miranda Devine. After Luft escaped Cypriot custody while out on bail, making him a fugitive, Devine scored an interview in which Luft complained that "the chances of me getting a fair trial in Washington are virtually zero" and that he was "charged for a thought crime."
The right-wing media ran with describing Luft as a "missing witness," while some House GOPers at the time acknowledged that they had a "missing witness" problem, without specifying who that was.
Since the indictment, some prominent believers in what Luft had to offer GOP investigations into the Bidens doubled down.
"The timing is always coincidental according to the Democrats and the Department of Justice," Comer told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday evening. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who said that Luft could be a key witness, said on Sunday that he "does not trust the Department of Justice."
The facts, as laid out in and around the indictment, tell a far more familiar story of D.C. grubbiness.
Per the docket, unsealed on Tuesday, the indictment came down on Nov. 1, 2022. That's eight months before the DOJ made it public, and three months before Luft himself first loudly alleged that he was the victim of a Biden political persecution.
And per the indictment, Luft's assertion that he's been charged with "thought crimes" appears far-fetched.
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