According to documents released Thursday, an IRS whistleblower told lawmakers Hunter Biden threatened Chinese business people by saying Joe Biden was sitting next to them.
The text message said an investigation into Hunter Biden, the “sportsman,” was launched in November 2018 “as an outgrowth of an investigation conducted by the IRS against a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform.” It was later discovered, the whistleblower said. Said. As part of the investigation, the investigative team accessed some of Hunter Biden’s text messages.
Joe Biden claims he knew nothing about his son’s overseas business dealings. (Related: Analysis: Every Time Joe Biden Appeared In Hunter’s Business Plan)
In one message, in a July 30, 2017 WhatsApp message, Hunter Biden told a Chinese business official, “I am sitting here with my father and I understand why the promise was not kept. Tell the director that you want to solve it now before it gets out of hand, now means tonight, and Z, you, Mr. Zhang, other than the chairman, have anything to do with this matter. When I get a call or text from someone, I check with the man sitting next to me and everyone he knows to see if I can keep it a secret forever. I’m sitting here waiting for my dad to call me,” the whistleblower said.
Prosecutors were unwilling to develop a “strategy to investigate the messages” and rejected investigators’ suggestions to obtain location information to verify the origin of the texts, the whistleblower said.
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: President Joe Biden hugs his family after taking the oath of office at the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States at today’s inauguration. (Photo Credit: Jonathan Ernst Poole/Getty Images)
The whistleblower, who said he had worked for the IRS for 14 years, said, “The Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Department of Justice’s Tax Service, and the Department of Justice gave preferential treatment and allowed conflicts of interest to go unchecked on important and high-level issues. I came forward,” he said. A profile survey of the president’s son Hunter Biden. ”
After Joe Biden became the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials began to “get in the way”, leading the Sportsman investigation, the whistleblower continued. .
Investigators had hoped to search the Biden mansion in Delaware, where Hunter Biden spent some time, but U.S. assistant prosecutor Leslie Wolfe said there was a good chance they would find a lot of things. He reportedly said one should think about “optics” when conducting such investigations. The whistleblower said it was part of the evidence.
