FBI agent says prosecutors thwarted Hunter Biden charges, corroborating IRS whistleblowers

https://justthenews.com/accoun..._campaign=newsletter

An FBI supervisor has corroborated key aspects of two IRS whistleblowers’ testimony alleging that federal prosecutors slow-walked Hunter Biden’s criminal probe and declined last year to bring tax charges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., according to an interview transcript reviewed by Just the News.

The female FBI supervisor, whose name the Justice Department asked be kept private in the transcript, was interviewed recently by the House Judiciary Committee, and she chronicled her interactions with IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler and Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden probe.

While the agent said she had different recollections than her IRS colleagues about certain aspects of the case and did not believe politics caused any delays, she confirmed there were instances in which prosecutors slowed the investigation.

Specifically, she confirmed agents were concerned that the DOJ tried to use the 2022 midterm elections to delay action in the Hunter Biden case even though his father was not up for election last year.

“I know that that had come up,” said the FBI agent, who worked in the Baltimore office that supervised cases in Delaware.

“Delays related to the election?” she was asked.

“Yes, I noted that had come up” the agent answered.

The FBI generally has a rule that public actions not be taken in cases in the weeks before an election that could impact the outcome of the election, a rule that was not followed in 2016 when the bureau opened the Russia collusion probe against Donald Trump a few weeks before Election Day.

Republicans have argued there was no reason to avoid action in Hunter Biden’s case in 2022 because Joe Biden wasn’t on the ballot during the midterm election.

The agent also confirmed that the offices of the Joe Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in Washington, Matthew Graves, and Los Angeles, Miguel Estrada, declined to bring criminal tax charges against Hunter Biden last year like Weiss sought.

“Do you remember that Mr. Estrada also decided not to bring the case?” the agent was asked.

“Yes,” she answered.

“OK. So he decided not to partner or he rejected the case, whatever the term is?” she was pressed.

“I understand that, yes, that a decision had been made that the Central District of California wasn't going to, I guess – my understanding is that they weren't going to bring the case on their own,” she answered.

Likewise, she said, she had learned at some point that Graves’ office in Washington also declined to bring the charges wanted by Weiss against Hunter Biden.

“Do you remember learning that the U.S. attorney for D.C. decided not to partner with Mr. Weiss on bringing the tax charges for 2014 and 2015?” she was asked.

“I remember learning at some point in the investigation that Mr. Weiss would have to go through his other processes because the U.S. Attorney's Offices had, I guess, in that sense, using that terminology, wasn't going to partner,” she answered.

The interview transcript also revealed that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s investigators have ascertained that some of the prosecutors’ efforts to block investigative steps are captured in contemporaneous emails between Shapley and Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Wolf in Delaware.

“In September of 2021, are you aware that Lesley Wolf emailed Gary Shapley stating, ‘I do not think you are going to be able to do these interviews as planned,'" adding that they would require approval from DOJ Tax Division "Are you aware of that?” the FBI agent was asked at one point.

At another point, the FBI agent was asked: "Are you aware in October of 2021 Lesley Wolf emailed Gary Shapley and the investigative team that 'It will get us into hot water if we interview the President's grandchildren' ?”

In both cases, a DOJ lawyer blocked the FBI agent from answering the questions. But the existence of such emails would provide further corroboration to Shapley’s claim that agents were blocked from conducting certain witness interviews, including ones on Hunter Biden’s children.

The FBI agent did acknowledge she had some differences of opinion and recollections from her IRS colleagues, specifically that she did not remember Weiss claiming he had been rejected by DOJ headquarters from being named a special counsel last year.

She also said she did not believe politics played a role in the delays and disputes between the agents and the prosecutors.

“Do you recall if anybody said they thought the case had been politicized?” she was asked.

“I don't,” she answered.

“And, if somebody had said that they thought the case had been impacted by any type of political pressures, would you have recalled that?”

“I think so,” she also said.

She later added that if she had been asked during a meeting about politics infecting the probe she would have answered: “I would say from my opinion that it has not been politicized by the investigators.

“I think everybody that was – and is working this ongoing matter are doing their jobs and are doing their jobs to the best of their ability. And if there's any political, you know, or anything being politicized, that is outside of the investigative entities."

But she also said there were in fact problems with communications between prosecutors and agents.

“I believe that includes both U.S. Attorney's Offices and the investigative entities as well,” the agent said. “So comprehensive of the whole team, I think that there have been communication issues.

While Shapley and the FBI agent have a difference of opinion on whether politics played a role in the case, the FBI agent saId she had no reason to believe Shapley was lying.

“My experience with Mr. Shapley is very limited. And so, with that limited experience, no, I didn't have any thoughts that he had lied about anything,” she told congressional investigators.

Apparently he never got the memo that it's just not cool to address a black man as "boy":


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Record 33 Trillion dollars in debt and Biden pledges 40 billion more to Pacific Island nations.


Biden fumbles acronym during Pacific Islands forum speech: ‘Doesn’t matter what we call it’

https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/...slands-forum-speech/

“Today I’m pleased to announce we’re working with Congress to invest $40 billion in our Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative,” he told the round table of leaders. “We call it the P, PI — anyways, doesn’t matter what we call it but that’s what it is.”

Video at link

I saw a Truth Social post from Donald Trump that was reposted on Twitter (but can't find it now) that said once Biden's handlers realized that Trump was going to visit the UAW this Wednesday, they rushed to get Biden's fossilized ass out there on Tuesday ahead of him.

Sounds about right from this one-upping old fool

Yeah, he’s supposed to work the picket line with the UAW members, well at least until he trips and falls over.

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Yeah, he’s supposed to work the picket line with the UAW members, well at least until he trips and falls over.

And speaking of tripping and falling over...

From the UK Daily Mail of course. You'll never see the Biden-adoring US media cover this one:

How Biden, 80, is trying to avoid ANOTHER trip: President is 'doing balancing exercises with a physical therapist, wearing new sneakers to stop slipping and using shorter stairs'

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
Yeah, he’s supposed to work the picket line with the UAW members, well at least until he trips and falls over.

And speaking of tripping and falling over...

From the UK Daily Mail of course. You'll never see the Biden-adoring US media cover this one:

How Biden, 80, is trying to avoid ANOTHER trip: President is 'doing balancing exercises with a physical therapist, wearing new sneakers to stop slipping and using shorter stairs'

Well at least he’s wearing Sketchers! I’d be pissed if he started wearing New Balance shoes.

Those are about all I’ll wear anymore, a direct consequence of working on concrete floors starting in 1970 and still today in retirement. Some nights I come home it’s right into epsom salts I go…..

At what point does this become enemy action or even treason? Is the POTUS not tasked with protecting the citizens of the country he serves?

https://x.com/charliekirk11/st...380286207070599?s=20



Please no one get crazy here and say anything stupid about a sitting POTUS, but this is astonishing to me. We are watching our country being overrun in real time and no one is doing shit about it from this administration.

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At what point does this become enemy action or even treason? Is the POTUS not tasked with protecting the citizens of the country he serves?

We are well past that point. At a minimum, he should have already been impeached. The Democrats impeached Trump, twice, at the drop of a hat, for nothing. Yet, the Republicans have no stomach for impeachment.

Joe Biden's dog Commander bites another Secret Service agent

https://www.washingtonexaminer...bites-secret-service

Commander, the president's dog, has bitten another Secret Service agent. It's the 11th such instance during President Joe Biden's time in the White House.

“Yesterday around 8 p.m., a Secret Service Uniformed Division police officer came in contact with a First Family pet and was bitten. The officer was treated by medical personnel on complex,” U.S. Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told CNN in a statement.

The injuries don't appear to be severe, and the agent is doing OK, he said.

In emails obtained by Judicial Watch, the frustrations of Secret Service agents were revealed. One remarked that the pet would have been put down if not the president's dog.

Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for the first lady, said upon the revelation of the number of attacks from Commander that the first family has since been “partnering with the Secret Service and Executive Residence staff on additional leashing protocols and training, as well as establishing designated areas for Commander to run and exercise.”

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Originally posted by PASig:
At what point does this become enemy action or even treason? Is the POTUS not tasked with protecting the citizens of the country he serves?

https://x.com/charliekirk11/st...380286207070599?s=20

Please no one get crazy here and say anything stupid about a sitting POTUS, but this is astonishing to me. We are watching our country being overrun in real time and no one is doing shit about it from this administration.

Nope, they are facilitating it!

If the Texas DPS, AND the Texas National Guard were to set up some machine gun positions on our side of that wire, and lay down some suppressive fire, I can pretty much guarantee ZERO Illegal Alien Invaders would attempt to cross the border!

None Dare Call It Treason

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The Republicans have no stomach for impeachment.

The smartest thing the real president ever did was choose Kamala to be the puppet's running mate.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...of-abandoned-laptop/

Hunter Biden sued former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday in a Los Angeles federal court, claiming “hacking” was involved in Giuliani obtaining his “Laptop from Hell,” which he abandoned at a Delaware computer store.

“Defendants are among those who have been primarily responsible for what has been described as the ‘total annihilation’ of Plaintiff’s digital privacy,” Biden’s lawsuit says. “They also are among those who have been primarily responsible for the ‘total annihilation’ of Plaintiff’s data.”

Hunter Biden claims Giuliani and his longtime lawyer, Robert Costello, improperly accessed the laptop’s data by “hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from Plaintiff’s devices or storage platforms.”

Hunter Biden, in 2019, while addicted to crack, left his abandoned “Laptop from Hell” at John Paul Mac Isaac’s Delaware computer repair shop. The FBI soon visited the shop to collect the laptop, but Mac Isaac had a copy of the hard drive. While the FBI took control of the laptop, the data was conveyed to Giuliani and ultimately to the New York Post

Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe Trump would have won reelection in 2020 if Hunter’s laptop had been known to voters, according to a Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics poll.

Hunter Biden received $260K from Beijing during dad’s campaign — with Joe’s address on wire

https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/...dress-on-wire-comer/

First son Hunter Biden received two wire transfers from Chinese nationals worth a total of $260,000 months after dad Joe began his 2020 presidential campaign — and with the elder Biden’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address, a key House Republican said Tuesday.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed financial records that his panel subpoenaed turned up the transfers in July and August 2019.

The revelation is another blow to President Biden’s insistence that he had no knowledge or discussion of his only surviving son’s foreign business interests.

“Bank records don’t lie but President Joe Biden does. In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China,” Comer said in a statement.

“We’ve already proved that to be a lie earlier this year, and now we know that two wires originating from Beijing listed Joe Biden’s Wilmington home as the beneficiary address when he was running for president.”

Hunter Biden is known to have spent time living in father Joe’s Wilmington home following his 2017 divorce from wife Kathleen Buhle, even falsely claiming he owned the property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application.

Hunter also listed his dad’s house as the billing address for his personal credit card and Apple account in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

The two payments revealed Tuesday are linked to BHR Partners, a venture between Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca and Bohai Capital, a Chinese investment firm.

The first payment of $10,000 came from a person identified as Ms. Wang Xin on July 26, 2019. The second took place about a week later on Aug. 2, 2019 for $250,000 from Li Xiang Sheng, who goes by Jonathan Li.

^^^^ joe disagrees:

video from 2020 debate

https://twitter.com/i/status/1706800360914841822

then again, joe lies nonstop

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Originally posted by chellim1:
The Republicans have no stomach for impeachment.

The smartest thing the real president ever did was choose Kamala to be the puppet's running mate.

There is a LOT of truth in this statement.

Yes, and it's an observation that has been made here so many times, there's no need to ever repeat it. I am officially tired of hearing it.

And to think they even had Axios run a story about how they are trying to keep him from falling down at every opportunity


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