Newly reported testimony from participants in a key meeting undercuts key claims from the whistleblower.
that “the president’s family has been offered special treatment by Biden’s own administration.”
The crux of that theory is that Garland played a role in shielding Hunter Biden from prosecution and lied about having given U.S. Attorney David Weiss total authority to bring any charges. Biden reached a plea deal on a gun issue and tax charges, but the deal fell apart, and on Thursday he wasBetween McCarthy’s Tuesday impeachment announcement regarding the president and Thursday’s indictment of his son, significant new information emerged.
The Washington Post’s Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett reported that new testimony last week from senior FBI agent Thomas SobocinskiPolitico and the New York Times added that another FBI agent in the Oct. 7 meeting alsoAnd Fox and the Times reported on testimony from another participant, Shapley’s IRS supervisor.
— that Weiss had said he wouldn’t be a special counsel, because special counsels’ decisions can be overruled by the attorney general. Seeking specialstatus, meanwhile, allows a U.S. attorney to press charges in other jurisdictions when the U.S. attorneys in them decline a case.that’s not supported by the facts,” he testified, citing Weiss’s “own admissions in the Oct. 7, 2022, meeting that I documented contemporaneously.
He also said that, even before the October meeting, he had the “ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges.”
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