AP valiantly tries to downplay the IRS/FBI whistleblowers

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In an interview aired on Fox News on Monday night, James Comer described the anticipated testimony today by former IRS officials Greg Shapley and another as-yet-unnamed colleague as “explosive.” The two have already been interviewed in private and will reportedly provide details into how the IRS was thwarted at every turn as they attempted to investigate suspicious banking transactions (to put it mildly) involving First Son Hunter Biden, his father, and other Biden family members. The investigation was stalled until the most serious charges against Hunter reached the statute of limitations and other lines of questioning were blocked entirely. While the legacy media has largely attempted to ignore this story in their efforts to protect the Bidens, the Associated Press apparently felt obligated to write something about it ahead of today’s testimony. But they did so with the greatest degree of skepticism possible, littering the article with scare quotes and generalities intended to make the situation seem totally normal, with ‘nothing to see here.’

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Whistleblowers claiming the Justice Department improperly interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden will testify before Congress on Wednesday as House Republicans accelerate their probes into the president and his family.

Leaders of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees will lead a hearing with two Internal Revenue Service employees — Greg Shapley and an as-yet-unnamed “whistleblower x” — who claim there was a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” into Hunter Biden, including delayed enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.

It will be the first public testimony from the two IRS agents assigned to the federal case into President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, which was focused on tax and gun charges.

Two of the key figures in this testimony will be U.S. Attorney David Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland. They have given conflicting testimony to the House committees investigating this matter and done so under oath. In other words, somebody has been lying. And given the track record of this administration, they may all have been committing perjury.

Much of the focus will be on how Weiss previously claimed that he was unable to fully pursue the investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial transactions because he received no cooperation from Attorneys in Washington and California. He also said he had been unable to be appointed as a Special Counsel to pursue the case. But after Garland contradicted him, he changed his tune and said that he had “all the authority” he required. If that’s true, there would have to be a paper trail reflecting those events, yet none has been produced.

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We will also reportedly hear more about the maze of LLCs that the Bidens set up to launder money from multiple foreign interests into the family’s bank accounts. Tens of millions of dollars changed hands in a nearly anonymous fashion with no legitimate purpose for the payments being evident. Some of the largest chunks of money that went to Hunter and his associates never showed up in his tax filings. But those transactions were among the ones that were allowed to sunset under the statute of limitations.

The whistleblowers will also testify as to how an assistant U.S. attorney involved in the case tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about a search warrant issued for a storage locket he controlled. The AP describes this as “customary in cases involving high-profile individuals.” Seriously? Did anyone tip off Matt Taibbi before the IRS came knocking on his door while he was testifying before Congress? It’s an absurd claim.

The end result of all of this obstruction, diversion, and obfuscation was that Hunter Biden was able to avoid the most serious felony charges of tax evasion. This led to the sweetheart deal that was recently arranged for him (which the AP also puts in scare quotes) whereby he will serve no jail time on either tax fraud or gun charges. And if that deal is put in place officially by the judge in the case – which it absolutely should not be – you can rest assured that the Associated Press and almost all of the legacy media will dust off their hands and declare the case to be closed, with a job well done by all involved. It’s completely obscene.

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