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IRS whistleblower names SIX witnesses in bombshell claim of DOJ interference in Hunter Biden case

June 25, 2023 | | Print Article

Hunter Biden’s defenders have pointed to U.S. Attorney David Weiss as proof that everything about his case is on the up and up.

The argument is that because Weiss was appointed by former President Donald Trump, a Republican, the sweetheart plea agreement he just granted President Joe Biden’s youngest son surely can’t be corrupt in any way, shape, or form.

Well, there’s a problem with this narrative …

The narrative is based on the assumption that the decision on whether or not to charge Hunter was in the hands of Weiss. But what if it wasn’t? What if there was proof that his hands had been tied by higher-ups within the Department of Justice?

It turns out there is indeed proof. The proof can be found in IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s recent testimony to Congress:

“In an October 7, 2022, meeting at the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, U.S. Attorney David Weiss told six witnesses he did not have authority to charge in other districts and had thus requested special counsel status,” what appears to be a summary of his testimony reads.

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“Those six witnesses include Baltimore FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ryeshia Holley, IRS Assistant Special Agent in
Charge Gary Shapley and Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon, who also independently and contemporaneously corroborated Mr. Shapley’s account in an email, now public as Exhibit 10,” the summary continues.

“Mr. Shapley would have no insight into why Mr. Weiss’s would make these statements at the October 7, 2022 meeting if they were false. That Mr. Weiss made these statements is easily corroborated, and it is up to him and the Justice Department to reconcile the evidence of his October 7, 2022 statements with contrary statements by Mr. Weiss and the Attorney General to Congress,” the summary concludes.

What’s needed now is for the six witnesses named by the IRS whistleblowers to testify as well and confirm or deny Shapley’s allegations.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has for his part already called bull, claiming during a press conference Friday that there’s no legitimacy to these allegations.

“As I said at the outset, Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware and who was assigned this matter in the previous administration, would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to, and in any district in which he wanted to,” he said.

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“I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he ever has this authority,” he added.

So who’s telling the truth — Shapley or Garland?

Legal scholar Johnathan Turley notes in a column that if Shapley’s telling the truth, “that means that Garland was not just hearing from experts and members of Congress calling for an appointment, but that Weiss himself also saw the need for such an appointment.”

“Moreover, the report indicates that others in the investigation believed that there was a need to create such separation from the Justice Department in light of what they viewed as the special treatment given the president’s son,” the column, published in The Hill, continues.

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Notably, Turley also notes that, if true, it’d explain so much.

“These accounts could explain why the Justice Department took five years to secure a guilty plea to two misdemeanors that could have been established in the first month of the investigation,” he wrote.

“It would explain why there is no evidence of serious investigation into the influence peddling or a charge under FARA. It would explain why Hunter’s lawyer cannot recall ever being asked about the laptop. It would explain why the problem is not the Justice Department’s motto, but the man who is tasked with fulfilling it,” he added.

It’d in effect explain EVERYTHING, which is likely why it appears so many Americans wholeheartedly believe that Garland — not the whistleblowers —  is lying:

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Turley also seems to believe the whistleblowers are telling the truth.

“Now, we haven’t been able to, obviously, authenticate this information, but what we do know is that these are people that made statements to congressional investigators under the threat of prosecution if they lie. And that comes with an element of credibility. It doesn’t mean you have to accept it as true,” he said on Fox News this Friday.

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