Even CNN has called into question what is going on at the Justice Department as an analyst challenged the extended delay in one Hunter Biden case that should have been “a five-week investigation.”
“This is preposterous.”
(Video: CNN)
The first federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, who is set to appear in court Tuesday as it relates to his possession of documents marked classified, once again brought questions of a two-tiered justice system to the fore. Reacting to a New York Post cover story Monday, “What About the Bidens?” a panel on “CNN This Morning” opined on the seemingly straightforward case.
After political correspondent Sara Murray leveled there was no “apples-to-apples comparison” between the allegations brought against Trump without expanding on everything President Joe Biden and his ilk have been accused of, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig chimed in, “This is preposterous.”
“This has been pending, according to our reporting at CNN, since 2018. Five years!” he went on before clarifying, “By the way, this investigation is not the laptop.”
“This investigation is a tax issue — Did Hunter Biden declare his income? — and a sort of obscure gun law — Did he possess a gun while he was addicted to drugs — which you’re not allowed to do under federal law — did he lie about that?” the analyst simplified.
“But five years? I mean, that’s a five-week investigation…and this spans the Trump administration and the Biden administration,” Honig went on.
As covered, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss has been handling the Hunter Biden tax probe and the allegation that the president’s son had lied about his drug use to purchase a firearm in Oct. 2018, not while possessing one as the analyst had said.
“Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” the gun purchase form asked to which Hunter answered, “no.”
Recently, the IRS, at the request of the Department of Justice according to whistleblower attorneys Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt, had removed the “entire investigative team…from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress.
IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe on orders from DOJhttps://t.co/Dm27EKHlxw
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) May 16, 2023
“Someone’s got to make a call on this case. I don’t know what is going on but, it’s beyond anything I’ve seen before,” Honig declared simply over the duration of the investigation.
“Make a call!” he reiterated.
Meanwhile, Congress and the DOJ have continued a back-and-forth in dueling investigations against the former and current president. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) announced from the Senate floor Monday that the long-delayed whistleblower document, that had been provided last week under threat of contempt charges against FBI Director Christopher Wray, asserted there were secret recordings of the Bidens with the executive of a foreign energy company that may have bribed the then-vice president.
The Burisma Holdings executive had allegedly paid $5 million to the Biden family and was believed to have recordings of 17 conversations between him and Hunter as well as him and the president.
“Two standards of justice in this country will turn our constitutional Republic upside down. Thanks to the political infection within the Biden Justice Department and FBI,” Grassley said, “we’re well along to road for that to happen.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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