In Monday’s letter, the 33 Republicans cited the “politicization” of the Justice Department, the public’s lack of trust in authorities and recent allegations of allegations of cover-up of evidence and testimony at the FBI damaging to the first son. “Given the politicization of the Department of Justice under your watch and the importance of avoiding any appearance of impropriety, the undersigned requests that you provide U.S. Attorney Weiss with the full protection and powers of a special counsel,” the letter reads. “This is an important action you can take that will go a long way toward restoring faith in our institutions of government.” Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware and a Trump administration retainer, is leading the investigation into Hunter Biden, who recently paid the IRS about $2 million in back taxes — using either a loan or a gift from Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris – in an attempt to avoid prosecution. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) organized the letter, which was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a diverse group of others. A third of the US Senate has signed a letter calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. “There is no way to know the full scope of the investigation, but there appears to be increasing evidence that Hunter Biden committed numerous federal crimes, including but not limited to tax fraud, money laundering, and foreign lobbying violations,” the letter said. says. “Indeed, senators [Chuck] Grassley and [Ron] Johnson conducted an investigation over several years that resulted in public discussion of facts supporting these criminal concerns, including the disclosure of financial records showing the Biden family’s close financial ties to the Communist Chinese government and questionable foreign nationals,” she continued. letter. . “It’s clear that Hunter Biden thrived on a pay-to-play culture of access to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, in exchange for financial compensation.” The letter cited the “politicization of the DOJ” under Garland as the reason for appointing an independent special counsel.AP Photo/Susan Walsh The letter was sent just one day after CBS aired an interview with President Biden in which he claimed his son’s foreign dealings — including China, Russia and Ukraine — did not pose a conflict of interest. “There is not one thing that I have noticed that affects me or the United States in relation to my son Hunter,” the president said, despite meeting with many of his son’s business associates. Biden has not sanctioned a Russian billionaire with whom his son allegedly worked, despite sanctioning much of Russia’s elite this year over the February 24 invasion of Ukraine. And Hunter Biden still co-owns investment firm BHR Partners with Chinese government entities, according to online filings. The letter from the 33 GOP senators called for U.S. Attorney David Weiss to be appointed to investigate Hunter Biden. The United States Attorney’s Office The Post reported this month that disgraced ex-FBI agent Timothy Thibault was the “point” for Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski and never followed him up on his bombshell allegations that Joe Biden was involved in a business deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC. . Thibault was recently retired from the FBI after criticism of his anti-Trump social media posts and whistleblower allegations that he buried material on Hunter Biden. Bobulinski alleged a month before the 2020 election that Joe Biden was involved with his son Hunter and brother Jim’s dealings with CEFC, which allegedly paid the Bidens $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018 .But Bobulinski hasn’t heard from Thibaut since he claimed to have spoken to Joe Biden about the deal. Bobulinski says Joe Biden was known among Hunter Biden’s business partners as the “big guy” — who a document from Hunter Biden’s laptop said was “due to a 10% cut in a new corporate entity with CEFC ». Another Hunter Biden business associate, James Gilliar, also identified Joe Biden as the “big guy.” The FBI also reportedly warned agents not to search the contents of the laptop, which was made public by The Post in October 2020. In a July letter outlining whistleblower complaints, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote that Thibault and another FBI employee, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, allegedly engaged in “a scheme” to “undermine derogatory information linked to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was misinformation.” The letter comes after The Post reported that former FBI agent Timothy Thibault did not follow up on allegations about Biden about the bureau. Federal Bureau of Investigation Otten “opened an evaluation that was used by an FBI HQ team to improperly discredit Hunter Biden’s negative information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to be discontinued,” Grassley wrote. “[V]verified and verifiable disparaging information about Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as misinformation,” Grassley wrote. Thibault, meanwhile, allegedly tried to kill a valid avenue of investigation into Hunter Biden’s possible criminality. “In October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory mentions of Hunter Biden was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault… [when] all reports were either verified or verified through a criminal search warrant,” Grassley wrote. “Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…. [and] then attempted to improperly flag the matter in the FBI’s systems so that it could not be opened in the future.” Under questioning by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) last month, FBI Director Chris Wray said the alleged bias in the Hunter Biden case was “deeply troubling.” But Wray cut off the questions, saying he had a flight to catch. It was later claimed that he left the supervisory hearing on personal vacation. Thibault was the “point” for Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski at the FBI.Fox News The FBI’s Baltimore field office is leading the Hunter Biden case, under the supervision of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware. Bobulinski has not been subpoenaed before a grand jury investigating Hunter Biden for possible financial crimes, including tax fraud, money laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying. Special counsels are bad news for presidents because they have far-reaching investigative powers, and their pursuit of potential crimes can last for years. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia in the 2020 election spanned more than half of Trump’s term and produced a steady stream of damaging leaks, but ultimately failed to find evidence of collusion. In the 1990s, independent counsel Ken Starr began investigating President Bill Clinton’s real estate dealings, but ended up investigating the cover-up of Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, resulting in Clinton’s impeachment.
