President Joe Biden snapped at a reporter during a press conference on Thursday after the reporter asked him about an alleged scandal involving a bribery scheme that Biden is accused of being involved in while he was vice president in the Obama administration.

An FBI confidential human source allegedly told the Bureau that Biden and his son, Hunter, were paid potentially up to $5 million each in bribe money from an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

“Why did the Ukraine FBI informant file refer to you as the ‘Big Guy,’ President Biden?” New York Post reporter Steven Nelson asked Biden. “Why is that term continuously applied?”

Biden laughed and fired back: “Why do you ask such a dumb question?”

"Why did the Ukraine-FBI informant file refer to you as 'the Big Guy'?"

BIDEN: "Why'd you ask such a dumb question?" pic.twitter.com/vuLRP1N7xV

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Fox News reported that the allegation is contained in an FD-1023 form that the FBI created based on an interview they conducted with the FBI confidential human source in June 2020. The confidential source has been “consistently reviewed by the FBI” and has been “found to be highly credible.”

The confidential source, a businessman, reportedly had multiple meetings and conversations with the Burisma executive about how to obtain U.S. oil rights and establish connections with a U.S. oil company while Biden was still vice president. When asked why the executive needed advice when Hunter Biden was on the board, the executive allegedly said Hunter Biden was “dumb.”

The confidential source told the FBI that the executive said the company had to pay the Biden family because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating the company, and it would have a hard time breaking into the U.S. market given the circumstances, the report said.

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The executive reportedly indicated that it would be “$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden.”

The confidential source told the FBI that the executive said he “paid” the Bidens “through so many different bank accounts” that it would be hard for prosecutors to trace the money for a long time.

In 2016, while Biden was still vice president, he pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko into replacing Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko. “Well, son of a b****, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

Migrant smugglers have been brazenly advertising their services influencer-style on TikTok and YouTube, flaunting their participation in the illegal multi-billion dollar industry.

The human smugglers, who are linked to drug cartels, advertise with high-quality TikToks and YouTube videos that show them illegally transporting migrants across the U.S. southern border, the New York Post reported.

The videos show the “coyotes,” as they are known in Spanish, taking migrants across rivers — and migrants smiling in “stash houses” across the border.

Smugglers can charge upwards of $10,000 per person transported. One alleged smuggler told the Post he charges about $10,500 to smuggle a Mexican person over the border.

One YouTube channel with the handle @ELINMIGRANTEAVENTURERO or “the migrant adventurer” has more than 56,000 subscribers and shows smugglers in action, including a video showing a family in the back of a vehicle.

The channel claims to be just “documenting the migrant experience.”

However, once the Post got in contact with Soy Xulen, who runs the channel, he told them that the price for a smuggling service depends on the country the migrant is traveling from.

One video from the channel shows a small boy who appears to be about seven or eight years old smiling and giving a thumbs up as he arrives at a safe house. Another video shows the location of Border Patrol officers.

On TikTok, dozens of accounts appear to be run by smugglers. Some appeared from a search for the keywords “sueno americano” (“American dream”), “levanto” (“pick up”), and “inmigrantes” (“immigrants”).

One video showed footage of young migrants crossing the Rio Grande. Another video showed alleged smugglers at a border fence hole and later showing stacks of cash in a vehicle.

The Post reported that the alleged coyotes target people from El Salvador and Honduras with specific TikTok hashtags.

Drug cartels make about $13 billion per year through human smuggling, up from $500 million in 2018.

The videos do not warn migrants about the dangers of traveling to the border, especially with a smuggler, which can include extremely poor conditions and even death.

Last year, 53 migrants, most from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, died after being trapped for hours in a sweltering semi-truck, which was abandoned in a desolate area on the outskirts of San Antonio, where temperatures rose into the 100s.

In a particularly gruesome detail, some of those found in the truck appeared to have roasted to death dusted with steak seasoning, a possible attempt to disguise the smell of people as the smugglers crossed the border.

Sometimes smugglers will demand more money halfway through the journey, threatening to disappear with migrants’ relatives if they do not pay up.

President Biden has halted construction of former President Trump’s border wall and scaled back deportations, as he promised during his campaign. The administration rarely deports any illegal immigrants from the interior of the country.

Experts say these policies encourage migrants to try their luck entering illegally and offer smugglers with dangerous practices an opportunity to take advantage.

“We say don’t come because we will not let you in, but our policies encourage the opposite,” RJ Hauman, director of government relations and communications at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told The Daily Wire last year. “Migrants around the world have taken note of this, and they’re using dangerous cartels, smugglers, and traffickers, to make the journey in. And the end result can be tragic situations.”