Anyone who is attentive and not distracted by other news stories should be extremely concerned about the Biden family scandal involving Hunter Biden’s international business transactions and Joe Biden’s role in those transactions. Together with other financial evidence, the evidence found on Hunter’s laptop is sufficient for conservative members of Congress to advocate for his impeachment.
In contrast to the attempts to hurl everything but the kitchen sink at former President Donald Trump, however, Democrats want the entire scandal to be swept under the rug and are openly declaring as much.
This week, former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) went on MSNBC to warn anyone investigating Hunter Biden and the influence-peddling scandal: “Everybody needs to back off!”
And none other than the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, is erecting obstacles to confronting the scandal.
As stated in Jonathan Turley’s column this week:
Newly released evidence from the investigation indicates that McCaskill was not the only powerful figure issuing that warning. Two whistleblowers reportedly detailed highly disturbing actions from top officials to slow walk and undermine the investigation.
Many of us have already noted the absence of certain charges in the plea deal given to Hunter Biden. In addition to the lack of any charge as an unregistered foreign agent, there is no evidence that the Justice Department seriously investigated the influence-peddling efforts of the Biden family despite allegations of millions generated from foreign sources.
Now these whistleblowers are reportedly telling Congress that they were actively frustrated in their efforts to investigate as Merrick Garland was insisting that there was no interference or limitations.
This included preventing an effort to search a guest house of President Joe Biden. IRS official Gary Shapley allegedly recalled that Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf agreed that there was “more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze.”
Wolf allegedly said that they could never get approval for the search despite the sufficiency of the evidence.
Attorney General Garland’s statements to Congress are directly contradicted by the allegation that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss attempted to file charges against the 53-year-old in both the District of Columbia and Southern California last year, but was denied both times.
Democrats complain that Weiss was a Trump appointee, and the mild plea deal demonstrates that there was no case to make. However, according to Turley, these sources imply that Weiss attempted to prosecute in two distinct jurisdictions but was unsuccessful.
Turley argues that the only way to discover the truth would be to summon Weiss, Wolf, and others to depose before Congress and begin impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden.
“As if there is not enough stalling in the matter, and evidence to move forward, now there is a new contradiction. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) read from an alleged July 30, 2017 Whatsapp message from Hunter Biden to one of his Chinese associates, Henry Zhao, the director of Harvest Fund Management and Communist Party official. Zhao was funneling money to Hunter’s firm BHR Partners.”
Turley says Hunter is quoted as writing:
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Turley compares the smoke and mirrors to a Houdini performance and faults both the media and the Democrats for attempting to conceal the scandal and divert public attention to other issues. He composes:
“A year after the New York Post broke the laptop story, I wrote a column marveling at the success of the Bidens in pulling off one of the neatest tricks in political history. I analogized it to how Houdini used to make his 10,000-pound elephant Jennie disappear on a stage in front of a live audience.
The key to the trick is that Houdini knew the audience wanted her to disappear”, adding, “In the same way, the media wanted the Hunter Biden scandal to disappear — they still do. They are invested in the trick.”
Turley likens the scandal to an elephant in the middle of the room. “Of course, it still remains a challenge to hide an elephant if even one audience member goes looking. Polls show that the public overwhelmingly wants to pull back the curtain and see the elephant.”