Attorney General Merrick Garland Hunter must personally authorize any potential charges against Biden, he said Wednesday, acknowledging that President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has been politicized under his watch.
Hunter has been under investigation by Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware for years of alleged tax and firearms violations. However, no charges were filed. Garland declined to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate to avoid a conflict of interest between himself and the Biden family.
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cheneta)
Asked if Weiss could indict Hunter without outside political pressure, Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Weiss “has been advised that he has full authority to file the kind of motions that you’re talking about and to bring cases in other jurisdictions. is considered necessary.
“If he does, I assure you he can do it,” Garland said, noting that he would have to approve the charges.
“Then I would have to give him permission and allow him to enter another jurisdiction, which I promised to do,” he said.
United States Attorney David S. (Screenshot/CBS News)
In recent years, Americans have lost faith in the DOJ after the 2016 spying on former President Donald Trump’s campaign, the failed investigation into Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell,” and the recent explosive revelations of a former New York FBI spy. The executive was charged with violating US sanctions by agreeing to provide services to a Russian oligarch.
Republicans have questioned why Hunter was not charged in Weiss’ investigation into Hunter’s alleged tax and gun violations. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said Tuesday that the U.S. attorney has enough evidence to indict Hunter Biden over serious violations found on his “laptop from hell.” abandoned.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“There’s enough to impeach Hunter Biden now, there was enough to impeach Hunter Biden three or four years ago for what was on his laptop,” he said on the Lou Dobbs podcast. “So this American lawyer didn’t do much for whatever reason.”
Republicans also questioned why former FBI “assistant” Timothy Thibault “shut down” the investigation into Hunter’s laptop, which was unrelated to the ongoing criminal fraud investigation. the president’s son reported about the tax.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reported in February that whistleblowers told his office that FBI officials in the Washington field office “wrongly ordered the FBI to withhold information related to potential criminal activity by Hunter Biden in October 2020” — before the election. – whether it is confirmed or verifiable.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA). (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said, “Merrick Garland owes the public an answer to why the Justice Department refused to properly investigate Hunter Biden.” said Tuesday.
The DOJ’s investigation into Hunter is separate from the congressional investigation into Comer. Comer opened a nine-count investigation into the Biden family in November, including wire fraud and money laundering.
Peter Schweitzer, Breitbart senior contributor and president of the Government Accountability Institute, announced in 2018 and 2020. secret empires And Corruption profiles. Each book was ranked number one The New York Times on the bestseller list and revealed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew to China in 2013 on Air Force One, less than two weeks after the trip, Hunter’s company signed a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese government and a subsidiary of Bank of China. Schweitzer’s work also exposed the Biden family’s other extensive and lucrative foreign dealings and close relationships.
Research paper by Breitbart political editor Emma-Jo Morris New York Post Hunter Biden’s “cell phone from hell” made international headlines when he and Miranda Devine revealed that Joe Biden was close to Hunter’s business, even owning a 10% stake in a company founded by top officials. Levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
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