Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released testimony from two IRS former agents who claim the US Attorney for Delaware in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation lied when he testified he was ultimately responsible for the charges filed against the President’s son, the AP reports.
Greg Shapley, the only so-called “whistleblower” identified by name, stated David Weiss, the Trump-appointed US Attorney for Delaware who oversaw the investigation, told a meeting of DOJ, IRS and other investigators that he had to get any charges for Biden approved by his superiors. That claim is directly contradicted by statements made over the course of the four-year investigation by Weiss, and more recently by Merrick Garland, the Attorney General.
Shapley and the unnamed former agent both claim officials were deferential to Biden because of his status as First Son, with the gist of their testimony being that they think Biden should have been strung up by his thumbs or some other harsher penalty than what amounts to a two-year probation-before-judgment.