Attorney General Merrick Garland is in a tight spot.
The coverup of the Hunter Biden scandal collapsed and everyone is asking serious questions about how Garland worked to help out Joe Biden.
And Merrick Garland will scream in rage when he reads this writing on the wall.
Attorney General Merrick Garland testified under oath that United States Attorney David Weiss had full authority to bring whatever charges he wanted in the Hunter Biden probe.
“[Weiss] is in charge of that investigation. There will not be interference of any political or improper kind,” Garland told Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley informed the House Ways and Means Committee that Garland’s testimony was untrue.
Shapley testified that Weiss admitted on October 7, 2022, in a room full of six other FBI and IRS agents, that he did not have ultimate charging authority in the Hunter Biden probe and that Biden prosecutors in California and Washington, D.C. were blocking his attempt to indict Hunter Biden on felony tax evasion charges relating to Biden’s income from the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
“United States Attorney Weiss was present for the meeting. He surprised us by telling us on the charges, quote: ‘I’m not the deciding official on whether charges are filed,’ unquote,” Shapley stated.
Shapley added that Weiss lamented the fact that he requested special counsel status in the Hunter Biden probe but was turned down by Garland.
“To add to the surprise, U.S. Attorney Weiss stated that he subsequently asked for special counsel authority from Main DOJ at that time and was denied that authority. Instead, he was told to follow the process, which was known to send U.S. Attorney Weiss through another President Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney,” Shapley continued.
A letter from Weiss to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan confirmed the facts as Shapley presented them while at the same time trying to spin to take the heat off Garland.
Weiss conceded that he needed permission from Biden’s U.S. attorneys in California and Washington to bring felony charges against Hunter Biden in their jurisdictions.
Biden’s prosecutors did not go along and the statute of limitations on the charges Weiss sought to bring against Hunter Biden expired.
“As the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, my charging authority is limited to my home district. If venue for a case lies elsewhere, common Departmental practice is to contact the United States Attorney’s Office for the district in question and determine whether it wants to partner on the case. If not, I may request Special Attorney status from the Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 515. Here, I have been assured that, if necessary after the above process, I would be granted § 515 in the District of Columbia, the Central District of California, or any other district where charges could be brought in this matter,” Weiss recounted.
Congressional Republicans vowed to get to the bottom of this scandal which many believe is multiple times worse than Watergate.
It also stands as proof of Biden and his allies weaponizing the justice system to act as an appendage of the Democrat Party’s political operation.
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