GOP's Ron Johnson forced to admit 'we don't know' if Biden tapes actually exist

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was forced to admit that evidence proving President Joe Biden's corruption may not actually exist.

An FBI informant allegedly told investigators that a Ukrainian oligarch claimed to have 17 recordings of the president and his son Hunter Biden that could prove bribery allegations, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

But Johnson told NewsmaxTV Thursday that Republicans had been unable to substantiate any of that.

"We don't know, and Sen. Grassley has never said, they exist," Johnson said.

"He just said that there's an FBI report on a confidential human source, and that confidential human source says that the person he was talking to said that he taped, he recorded 17 times, 15 times with Hunter, twice with Joe Biden.

"But we don't know but well, Sen. Grassley and I are asking questions, is what did the FBI do with that evidence, and it's very curious that the FBI redacted that when they gave that FD-1023 form to the House, why would they do that? I certainly understand the sensitivity of these confidential human sources and all that, but there was no further risk to the source. Knowing whether or not there are those videotapes seems like the FBI's just covering up for Joe and Hunter Biden."

Top House Republicans, including Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) have also conceded they don't know whether the tapes exist.

“We don’t know if they are legit or not," Comer said.