Hunter Biden charges indict Biden’s Justice Department too
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Vindication for two IRS whistleblowers has come on two major fronts in the past week as the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and President Joe Biden all look substantially worse. Indeed, Garland looks so corrupt that he should lose his job.
Without whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, none of this information would have been unearthed. They now have provided massive evidence supporting every major aspect of their original claims.
NINE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE HUNTER BIDEN INDICTMENT
The story grabbing the most headlines last week was the indictment on nine counts, including three felonies, of presidential son Hunter Biden. The indictment essentially damns the Justice Department almost as badly as it damns Hunter.
The story most of the media is ignoring, though, carries implications that are perhaps even more explosive. The House Ways and Means Committee released proof that Joe Biden himself, using several aliases to hide his tracks, exchanged at least 327 emails with Eric Schwerin, the key architect of the maze of international business arrangements enjoyed by Hunter and his uncle James Biden. Fifty-four of the messages were between Joe Biden and Schwerin exclusively, with dozens of the messages timed in apparent conjunction with the then vice-president’s official visits to countries where Hunter was doing business.
The same day, the House Oversight Committee showed that Joe Biden received several monthly payments from one of his son’s accounts that had received millions from Chinese Communist Party oligarchs, after earlier reporting that James Biden had wired Joe $40,000 from an account with cash that also originated in China. A bank investigator had officially flagged the original payment from China as highly suspicious. By now, it is impossible to believe the president’s frequent assertions both that he knew very little about his son’s business affairs and that he had no material connection with them.
Again, none of this evidence would have emerged from Garland’s Justice Department if the whistleblowers had stayed silent.
The indictment of Hunter Biden contains spectacularly salacious details about millions of dollars in payments for pornography, prostitutes, drugs, and “exotic cars” while refusing to pay millions he owed in taxes. Even when Hunter did file tax returns, he claimed “business deductions” for payments to exotic dancers, a prostitute, and girlfriends.
Without the whistleblowers, the Justice Department would have hidden all of this. Indeed, Delaware-based United States Attorney David Weiss, now acting as a special counsel, originally came within 24 hours of closing the investigation of Hunter Biden without prosecuting him for any of this — until the federal judge, seeing reports of the whistleblower’s accounts goaded Weiss to withdraw the extremely lenient plea deal he and the presidential son had worked out. Weiss also allowed statutes of limitations to expire on what looked like even more suspicious activity that occurred while the elder Biden was vice president, thus stopping probes that might have reached Joe Biden himself.
Weiss brought last week’s charges in California only after being named special counsel with expanded authority. Earlier, he had asked the U.S. Attorney’s office in California and the one in the District of Columbia to “partner” with him as co-counsel in the investigations, but he was rebuffed both times. Without the full cooperation of those prosecutors outside his own Delaware jurisdiction, he had not pursued those aspects of Hunter Biden’s misdeeds.
Garland, for his part, repeatedly had denied that Weiss had been hamstrung in his investigative efforts. Yet once the whistleblower testimony and thousands of pages of supporting documentation shamed Garland into finally making Weiss a special counsel, Weiss was able to bring these charges that could have been filed long ago if the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys in California and D.C. had fully cooperated.
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Meanwhile, a former U.S. Attorney from Pennsylvania, Scott Brady, has testified that the FBI stymied him when he tried to probe Hunter’s business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma. And on Friday, this newspaper reported that the Justice Department still is forbidding testimony by two Tax Division officials despite official subpoenas by the House Judiciary Committee.
Essentially, Garland appears to be running a protection racket for President Biden. Fortunately, the hard evidence produced by the whistleblowers is slowly piercing the veil of Garland’s obstruction. In a more perfect world, it would pierce Garland’s job status as well.