One day after Delaware U.S. Attorney-turned-Special Counsel David Weiss scolded Hunter Biden for baselessly requesting preferential treatment in his ongoing gun case, Republicans in the House released a report detailing how the Department of Justice treated President Joe Biden’s son with favoritism in the investigation into his alleged tax and gun crimes and then tried to cover it up.
Evidence uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee, Ways and Means Committee, and Oversight and Accountability Committee confirms that the DOJ slow-walked a federal tax crime inquiry into Hunter and “deviated from standard procedures” to protect the Bidens, with unprecedented actions like barring investigators from asking about any evidence that mentioned Joe such as the “big guy” or “dad.”
“The Department’s concerning actions and kid-glove treatment of Hunter Biden serves as yet another example of the two-tiered justice system at the Biden Justice Department,” the report concludes.
The findings aim to satisfy the third prong of the impeachment inquiry ordered by former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in September, which asked if the Biden administration did anything to “slow, hamper, or otherwise impede the criminal investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden, which involves funds received by the Biden family from foreign sources.”
The committees determined from evidence and the testimonies of 10 federal officials including Weiss that both the DOJ and FBI hampered the criminal tax investigation of Hunter by interfering with IRS agents’ investigative protocol, cluing in the younger Biden to a surprise IRS interview in
