JOE BIDEN = LIFE OF CRIME
Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden's regime is most revolutionary Left-wing since FDR
The IRS whistleblower tasked with overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden's possible tax crimes said the Biden administration's Department of Justice stepped in to slow the investigation down.
"When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw that it was way outside the norm of what I've experienced in the past," Gary Shapley, supervisory special agent at the IRS, told CBS in his first public interview Wednesday. Shapley would not confirm the subject of the probe that he's blowing the whistle on, but several media outlets have confirmed it's the first son. After coming forward last month, the whistleblower and his entire team were taken off the Biden probe.
"There was multiple steps that were slow-walked at the direction of the Department of Justice," Shapley said.
Shapley came forward last month and asked for whistleblower protections to bring forward bombshell claims that the Biden administration is showing "preferential treatment" toward Biden and holding back in the probe. He also alleged that Attorney General Merrick Garland gave misleading testimony in March when he said that the U.S. attorney in Delaware, who has been in charge of the Biden probe since 2018, has been allowed to proceed without influence.
A second whistleblower at the IRS claimed this week to have also faced retaliation for raising issues about the agency's investigation into Biden.
Hunter Biden's lawyer said last month that Shapley broke the law by telling Congress about his concerns.
THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN GAMER PARASITE LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND HIS LAWYER INFESTED ADMINSTRATION
'Time To Worry': IRS Targeted Biden-Critical Journalist on Two Suspicious Dates, Letter Reveals
Tax agency investigated Matt Taibbi as he was revealing government censorship on Twitter
The IRS targeted journalist Matt Taibbi on two occasions while he was exposing information about censorship efforts by the government and Twitter.
The agency launched an investigation into Taibbi, a liberal journalist who has criticized left-wing censorship of conservative and moderate voices, on December 24, 2022, according to a Wednesday letter from House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio). On that same day, Taibbi was publishing some of the "Twitter Files," internal Twitter emails that show the company coordinating with the government to censor so-called misinformation.
Just months later, on March 9, 2023, Taibbi was testifying in Congress when an IRS agent visited his home. The agency was performing "an extensive investigation" of Taibbi, looking into the journalist's "voter registration records, whether he possessed a hunting or fishing license, whether he had a concealed weapons permit, and his telephone numbers," Jordan's letter revealed.
The investigation, which ostensibly concerned Taibbi's 2018 tax filing, ultimately concluded that Taibbi "did not owe the IRS anything," according to the letter. On the contrary, the IRS owed Taibbi "a substantial refund."
"When the IRS checks to see if you have a carry permit and visits your home, at a time when they owe you money, it's time to worry," Taibbi wrote Wednesday.
Taibbi has been critical of Biden, saying last month that the administration's censorship efforts are "terrifying." He said Wednesday that the visit to his home appears to be "politically motivated."
These occurrences are not the only times that government officials have targeted Taibbi. Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.), the ranking member on the House subcommittee on the weaponization of government, last month threatened Taibbi with prison time for mixing up the names of two organizations.
Taibbi's "Twitter Files" revealed extensive censorship at Twitter before Elon Musk took over the company last year. During the 2020 presidential election, former FBI official James Baker advised Twitter to "censor an article about emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop," while federal agencies pressured Twitter to regulate conversation "related to the coronavirus vaccines, Russia, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol."
Jordan said in March that his committee would investigate whether the IRS agent's visit to Taibbi's home "was a thinly veiled attempt to influence or intimidate a witness before Congress." Jordan's Wednesday letter demands that the IRS turn over any documents about its probe into Taibbi by June 7.
Exclusive — Marjorie Taylor Greene: FBI Director Actively ‘Protecting’ Bidens by Stonewalling Congressional Subpoena
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday that FBI Director Christopher Wray is actively protecting the Biden family by stonewalling a congressional subpoena of an unclassified document that allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Biden and a foreign national.
Greene, who is a member of the House Oversight Committee, said that Wray, among several other members of the Biden administration, seeks to safeguard the Biden family from justice.
“I think it’s clear and obvious that the DOJ, the FBI, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and many others are protecting the Bidens,” Greene said when asked about the FBI’s refusal to provide the subpoenaed document to Congress.
On Wednesday, Wray agreed to schedule a meeting with House Oversight James Comer (R-KY) for next week to discuss the FBI’s refusal to hand over the unclassified document. The scheduled meeting, perhaps a stalling tactic, comes after Comer threatened to hold the FBI in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over the document.
“I don’t know why Christopher Wray is refusing to hand it over,” Greene said. “You can only think one way when they refuse to hand over an unclassified document.”
Greene explained the document allegedly details a pay-for-play scheme that involves then Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
“It has direct evidence of Joe Biden himself getting paid from a foreign national for foreign policy decisions,” she said. “So, it’s a real pay-to-play scheme when Joe Biden was Vice President.”
In May, the FBI did not deny the existence of the document but refused to comply with Comer’s subpoena, sparking the chairman to threaten to hold the FBI in contempt of Congress. Greene said if Wray fails to provide the document to Comer in next week’s meeting, “Then we only have one option, and that is to hold them in contempt of Congress.”
“But there’s also further consequences,” Green continued. “We’re already looking at our appropriations in our budget,” she said in reference to defunding the top brass at FBI and DOJ. “We’re looking at making cuts there. So, it’s not just contempt of Congress. [It] isn’t the only thing that we can do.”
While the FBI stonewalls Comer’s subpoena, his investigation continues to produce results.
In March, the probe identified three Biden family members who collectively received $1.3 million, wired through a Biden associate from a Chinese energy company two months after President Joe Biden left the vice presidency. In May, it found the Biden family business over the course of several years received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling. In total, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren, Comer revealed.
“In my opinion, we have enough evidence for impeachment,” Greene said. “I’m absolutely convinced.”
“It just takes the courage of Republicans to move for impeachment,” she said in reference to the Biden family business ventures and record alleging wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
“If we were a just country, our Department of Justice would prosecute him [Joe Biden] and put them [family] in jail, because that’s highly illegal,” she said.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
