New York Times confirms prosecutor was blocked from charging Hunter Biden in California
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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As much as the New York Times tries to bury the lede, there’s no denying it: The “Gray Lady” has independently confirmed a crucial detail by the second, unnamed IRS whistleblower attempting to expose the efforts of the federal government to protect Hunter Biden from the legal consequences of his own actions.
In the 21st paragraph of a story detailing the “competing accounts” of Attorney General Merrick Garland and the IRS whistleblower, Glenn Thrush and Michael S. Schmidt note that they have “independently” verified the whistleblower’s claim that David Weiss, the U.S. attorney responsible for overseeing the first son’s criminal case, was blocked from bringing charges against Hunter Biden in California.
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How was he blocked?
“While Mr. Weiss had the authority to pursue leads that led to jurisdictions other than his own in Delaware, the department’s practices dictated that he secure the approval and cooperation of the U.S. attorneys in those districts before proceeding,” Thrush and Schmidt report. “When [Sen. Chuck] Grassley, at the hearing in March, pressed Mr. Garland on that point — without referring explicitly to [IRS official Gary] Shapley’s claim, which would not become public for months, but tracking closely what Mr. Shapley would tell the Ways and Means Committee — the attorney general said he would ‘assure’ that Mr. Weiss would be able to bring charges outside Delaware if that was his wish. At a news conference after the transcript was released, Mr. Garland repeated that message.”
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We still have no smoking gun proving that it was Garland who gave the order to block Weiss from charging Hunter Biden in California, and more importantly, we still have no smoking gun proving it was the president who interfered in any way. But in independently verifying that key whistleblower claim, the New York Times is subtly illustrating a potentially groundbreaking realization: Grassley got Garland, on the record and under the penalty of perjury, to say — knowingly or unknowingly — that Weiss was not hindered from bringing criminal charges against Biden outside of Delaware, despite the fact that the assertion was false.
From here on out, everything depends on whether Garland willfully lied or was actually oblivious to lower-level DOJ officials blocking Weiss. In the case of the latter, it is incumbent on Republicans to clean house at the DOJ, as evidenced not just by the Biden brouhaha but also Russiagate and all the corruption that has come before. But in the case of the former, if Garland knew Weiss was obstructed but lied under oath, Republicans ought to initiate impeachment proceedings against the nation’s top cop.