The Home GOP leaders liable for launching an impeachment investigation into former President Biden have invited two key witnesses as their friends for President Trump’s deal with to Congress.
Home Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ok.Y.) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will deliver IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler as their friends to Trump’s speech Tuesday evening.
Shapley and Ziegler have been assigned to the staff investigating Hunter Biden, saying the Justice Division slow-walked the case and did not pursue probably the most aggressive prices in opposition to the then-president’s son.
Amid the GOP investigation, prosecutor David Weiss was elevated to particular counsel, finally bringing prices in opposition to Hunter Biden in California as the 2 IRS brokers urged.
Whereas Hunter Biden was convicted in a Delaware gun case introduced by Weiss and pleaded responsible within the California tax case, his father pardoned him on his manner out of workplace, ending the youthful Biden’s authorized troubles.
“Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler embody the very best requirements of the federal workforce. They’re honorable public servants who risked their careers and livelihoods to show misconduct and politicization within the federal felony investigation of Hunter Biden,” Comer and Jordan stated in a joint assertion Tuesday.
Along with considerations in regards to the tax investigation, Republicans had additionally floated that each Bidens had allegedly accepted a bribe tied to their work in Ukraine. However the FBI informant who relayed that tip was later arrested and pleaded responsible on prices associated to mendacity to the bureau after he fabricated the declare.
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