On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing featuring two IRS whistleblowers who came forward with allegations of preferential treatment in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation. Democrats on the panel failed to muster a coherent defense of the criminal activities of the Biden family.
The pair of whistleblowers, Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler, have revealed information about the Hunter Biden investigation involving cover-ups, corruption, and the Biden family’s influence-peddling schemes. Ziegler is a self-proclaimed Democrat whose credibility originates from the fact that he was the tax agency's lead case agent in the federal investigation and handled almost all of Hunter Biden's tax evidence.
The pair are attempting to expose the politicization of and misconduct by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice that took place to shield the president and his family members from the justice system. So how could congressional Democrats possibly counter evidence suggesting that the DOJ prevented investigators from following evidence that led to Joe Biden and communicated sensitive information to Hunter Biden’s attorneys to prevent Hunter's felony charges? While there is no logical excuse to defend Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) tried to press Shapley about his testimony by pointing out that Hunter Biden’s text message includes him informing President Joe Biden about his intentions to enter into business dealings with the Chinese oil and natural gas company CEFC China Energy.
The text message, according to the record, reads: "I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys" in reference to Hunter Biden's meeting with Chinese officials, which he communicated to his father. According to Goldman, the message has no evidence of President Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s dealings. But the lawyer-turned-congressman fell flat on his face when he jumped into tricky waters by addressing these texts that his colleagues were trying to avoid. When Shapley agreed with his statement, he also pointed out that the text proves President Joe Biden was aware of his son’s foreign business dealings and that these matters were discussed with him, something that Biden has denied when questioned by reporters.
But if unintentionally exposing the lies of the president was not embarrassing enough, another failed attempt by House Democrats to blindly defend Biden is captured by Reps. Summer Lee (D-PA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL), who in a bizarre attempt, tried to inject a racial angle into the hearing, alleging the existence of a two-tiered justice system. You really can't make this up.
According to Lee, "The term two-tiered system of justice is meant to refer to the very real system that exists in the United States, and which affects black and brown folks, not powerful former presidents and their political allies." Frost, while going on an unrelated tangent and lecturing the room about instances where he believed black criminals were victims of this unjust system, stated that the term was meant to refer to the differences in criminal treatment between "black, brown, and poor people versus everyone else" and that Republican officials were merely attempting to "appropriate the language of the movement for black lives and civil rights to fit a political agenda to defend Donald Trump."
House Democrats have clearly shown how far they are willing to go in their attempts to save face and blindly defend their president even when they logically cannot, all while creating a mockery out of Congress and the justice system.
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Max Mallhi is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.