The pundits seem to have been saying the Hunter Biden plea deal was done to obfuscate Joe Biden’s corruption. It does not seem to be working out that way. There is more and more information coming out in Congressional committees, more whistleblowers, and more attention.
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The word for the day at the White House and at the Department of Justice (DoJ) is “stonewall”. Their spokespersons are simply walking away from the podium. But the evidence is mounting. They are not addressing the issues on the merits. They seem to be hoping the media will continue to hide the evidence for them, you know like they did with the laptop.
The Attorney General (AG) said, “… some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components, and employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people… We make our cases based on the facts and the law… The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF our deputy U.S. Marshalls every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure their safety…”
Don’t misunderstand. Merrick Garland’s integrity is being called into question. His own employees are coming forward as whistleblowers. Garland is turning the DoJ into the enforcement arm of the DNC. Not everyone, even among those who work for him, agrees with his leadership.
The problem before us is: The AG’s words are objectively false. He says we use the same standard for everyone. Let’s think about that.
Your name is Biden; you can have classified documents. Put ‘em in your garage; we don’t care. Have your lawyers tell us what you’ve got. Your name is Trump. We are sending in the stormtroopers. Is that the same standard for everyone?
If you are violating the law, committing federal crimes; when there are demonstrators outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices. Justices who we do not like, we don’t enforce the law. We agree with the protestors. We don’t like the Justices. Our politics are on one side. So we don’t enforce the law. Is selective nullification of the law an issue that concerns you?
If you are a pro-life protestor, you are the greatest terrorist threat known to humanity. We are going to send the stormtroopers to your house, at the break of dawn, with machine guns drawn. Is that necessary? Is it a problem? What do your seven kids think of the wake-up call?
Is it time for the DoJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate Merrick Garland for obstruction of justice and perjury? Garland is telling us not to ask these questions. But it is his integrity which is in question. The chances of the Garland DoJ fairly investigating these matters are very low.
What happened at the start of the IRS whistleblower? The incident concerned an allegation Mr. Garland had personally committed perjury. Gary Shapley was the first IRS whistleblower. He is a career federal employee, not a political axe grinder.
He wrote to Congress, “… Beginning in January 2020, I was assigned to work the Hunter Biden investigation as a supervisory special agent for IRS criminal investigation U.S. Department of Treasury… I continued in that role until I was removed from the investigation by the U.S. DoJ in May of 2023… After providing protected disclosures concerning prosecutors mishandling of the investigation of Hunter Biden to include: conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, deviations from normal investigative procedures and conflicting information provided by AG Merrick Garland to Congress.”
Shapley told Congress Garland had knowingly provided false testimony before Congress, and for that, the AG retaliated immediately. That retaliation is, itself, a violation of law, which a special counsel should investigate.
Shapley goes on to assert former AG Barr said the confidential information provided by a human source concerning an alleged illegal bribery scheme by President Joe Biden was received through the Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney’s office. It was determined; the input received was not likely to have been disinformation.
According to former AG Barr, it was provided to the ongoing investigation in Delaware for follow-up. Neither Shapely nor his team nor the FBI agents working with IRS were provided with this human source information to investigate or follow up on. Shapely asserts that Human source information was concealed by prosecutors working for Merrick Garland.
There is also a letter from June 19th, 2023, from whistleblower “X.” This whistleblower was in charge of investigating Hunter Biden at that point in time. He has never seen this FBI form 1023. It was never turned over in any meeting with the Delaware prosecution team. The information could have been relevant to the investigation of the claim of $5 million dollars being paid to Hunter Biden. It directly tied an email with a business partner from 2014 about company “XXX.”
The appearance is that Merrick Garland has tried to cover up, tried to make the Biden prosecution go away. The assertion by AG Garland has been the prosecutor in Delaware had the discretion to do whatever was necessary, wherever it may have been necessary to do it, in handling the Biden case. This is something Merrick Garland has allegedly lied about.
Merrick Garland was asked in testimony before Congress, Will the investigation of Hunter Biden be focused on not only his personal substance abuse-related issues but also look into the connections to his father and potential corruption in public office. The leaks coming from DoJ suggest the focus is on the misadventure of a poor person struggling with drugs. Will you commit to investigating the public’s interest in the corruption issue?
The response from the AG was he cannot comment. All such matters are within the purview of the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, who is not restricted in his investigation in any way. The AG himself is implicated in the handling of this matter.
The media keeps saying the Delaware U.S. attorney was appointed during the Trump administration. And yes, Mr. Weiss was a career prosecutor. The implication being he is a right-wing sycophant. The problem with accepting the implication on its face is: It overstates who Mr. Weiss is.
Here’s how U.S. Attorneys are picked. U.S. Attorneys are essentially picked by the senators from the state they serve in. You cannot advance the nomination for U.S. Attorney without the concurrence of the senators from the state signing off. The Delaware U.S. was picked by Democrat senators Carper and Coons. Delaware is Joe Biden’s home. At a minimum, Mr. Weiss owes his job to not DJT but to Carper and Coons and the Biden team in Delaware.
The whistleblower and related allegations currently before Congress are:
· The DoJ twice prevented U.S. Attorney Weiss from bringing stronger charges against Hunter Biden. If this is true, Merrick Garland committed perjury twice.
· Merrick Garland refused to name a special counsel in the Hunter Biden tax investigation.
· The IRS recommended charges against Hunter Biden, which were not approved by Merrick Garland. Both the IRS and the U.S. attorney in Delaware were asking for stronger charges.
· The investigation forewarned Hunter Biden of future searches for materials that could be used as evidence. The DoJ tipped off the object of the investigation about where they would search… before it happened. That is called obstruction of justice.
· An assistant AG, Leslie Wolf, refused to allow the investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “The Big Guy.” She needs to testify under oath. If true she is contradicting what the AG told Congress.
· The same assistant AG told investigators they could not search Joe Biden’s guest house where Hunter Biden was living because of “optics.” If true, this means the DoJ isn’t investigating where the facts go or following and enforcing the law… at least not equally for everyone.
· Rob Walker, a Biden family associate, said Joe Biden showed up at a meeting with CEFC, a Chinese energy company closely affiliated with the CCP. Hunter Biden demanded to be paid by Chinese businessman Henry Zou while Joe Biden was sitting next to him.
· Hunter Biden deducted payments to prostitutes and sex clubs on his tax returns. Business expenses.
· The investigation of Hunter Biden began as an offshoot of an inquiry into a foreign adult platform. Hunter has engaged in lots of sordid behaviors.
· There is a WhatsApp text sent in which Hunter Biden shakes down a Chinese businessman saying his father is sitting here, right next to me. This is evidence of presidential corruption. It is clear and damning, assuming it is demonstrably true.
· Joe Biden is on record as maintaining he never discussed with his son, his brother, or anyone else his business dealings. That now appears to be rebutted… without response.
· If Hunter Biden is telling the truth, Joe Biden is lying to the American people.
· The whistleblowers, the investigators, wanted to obtain location information to confirm Joe Bide was in the room when Hunter was shaking down the Chinese businessman. Were the investigators allowed to answer that question? It appears they were blocked from acquiring the information necessary to answer that question.
The point today is the AG is not saying to the American people; we need to clear the air about what’s going on. He is not moving to lay the facts on the table. Why? The effectiveness and the integrity of the department he oversees and his own, for that matter, are being impugned. What possible reason is there for not making clear what’s going on now and what has gone before?
Merrick Garland is thumbing his nose, saying you cannot touch me. He’s abusing his power and position for gain or revenge, for reasons either personal or political. That’s the appearance.
1. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/22/irs-investigator-says-justice-dept-protected-hunte/
2. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/25/don-bacon-complaints-doj-double-standard-against-g/
12. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1672304832189702161
18. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/20/fbi-whisteblower-biden/
19. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccarthy-floats-impeachment-inquiry-garland-133038113.html
22. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/20/us/hunter-biden-plea-deal
23. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/22/irs-whistleblowers-hunter-biden-case-00103252
24. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/whistleblower-hearing-jim-jordan/index.html
25. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblowers-hunter-biden-tax-investigation-new-transcripts/
27. https://www.breitbart.com/tag/whistleblower/
29. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/24/13-serious-allegations-irs-whistleblower-bidens-doj/
