As more and more comes out, the walls close in more around Joe Biden in the Biden family business scandal.
Now, the House Oversight Committee posted a letter on X they sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland that is signed by the Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, and Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY). The letter lays out the “special privileges” that they say Hunter Biden received from U.S. Attorney David Weiss, now the Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden probe.
They laid out the following points:
The DOJ tipping off Hunter Biden’s counsel
Allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on tax charges
Suggestions to remove Hunter Biden’s name from documents, including subpoenas
Prohibiting IRS and FBI investigators from asking about or referring to “the big guy” or “dad” in witness interviews
As we previously reported, the IRS investigators were prevented from not only interviewing any Biden family members but also any lead about “big guy” Joe Biden. So how do you properly pursue a case like that?
The GOP chairs asked why anyone would believe that anything would change under Weiss at this point.
They also listed other deviations from standard practice in the full letter here, including things like refusing investigators’ requests to follow up on incriminating WhatAPP message between Hunter Biden and representatives of a Chinese corporation.
The GOP Chairs ripped the unprecedented plea deal that fell apart that the DOJ had been willing to offer Hunter Biden and they blasted Garland for making the same guy the Special Counsel.
They said they couldn’t square Garland’s prior statements that Weiss already had ultimate authority with the appointment as Special Counsel, and Garland wouldn’t explain, apart from saying “extraordinary circumstances” require it. They also pointed out a Special Counsel is supposed to be impartial but that Weiss was already involved in the case. Plus he had been a friend of Beau Biden, Hunter’s brother.
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