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Democrats aren’t laughing about the Hunter Biden debacle anymore
NY Post ^ | 8/21/23 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 08/21/2023 4:39:58 PM PDT by Libloather

“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”

Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden.

Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.

The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times? Those pesky whistleblowers.

One of the most insulting moments for the respected IRS agents came from ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who mocked the allegations as part of “this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist [that] has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.”

Raskin assured the public that these “disagreements” are “routine” matters in investigations (a position echoed by his junior colleague, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York). The IRS agents tried to object that they had never seen anything like what happened in this case.

Then the case became anything but a laughing matter for Democrats. The plea agreement with Hunter Biden collapsed within minutes of a federal judge asking a few basic questions.

When District Judge Maryellen Noreika balked at sweeping language on immunity, she asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen any agreement like this one. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “Just rip it...”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: biden; democrats; hunter; laugh
Hunter is down four lawyers. Very bad optics.
1 posted on 08/21/2023 4:39:58 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

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4 posted on 08/21/2023 6:38:46 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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That really means that they don’t feel the need to spend their hours working for him. The deal is done, Hunter’s a free man, and they can get on to other jobs that need their attention.


5 posted on 08/21/2023 7:12:22 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Weiss, Garland, Smith and the Black Chicks are PURE EVIL DEMOCRATS!


6 posted on 08/22/2023 4:21:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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