{"id":50444,"date":"2023-05-17T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50444"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:23:42","slug":"i-guess-they-havent-learned-their-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50444","title":{"rendered":"I Guess They Haven&#8217;t Learned Their Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, the big news today is the release of the Durham Report. Unfortunately there will be no consequences for those who violated the law, but at least we now have the proof that they did. However, the FBI and the Justice Department do not seem to learn from experience that they are not supposed to be political.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/15\/irs-cans-investigative-team-from-hunter-biden-probe-in-move-whistleblower-claims-is-clearly-retaliatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The IRS on Monday removed the \u201centire investigative team\u201d from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/19\/irs-whistleblower-alleges-cover-up-of-hunter-biden-tax-evasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up<\/a> in the case, The Post has learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department, the whistleblower\u2019s attorneys informed congressional leaders in a letter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cToday the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress. He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice,\u201d\u00a0Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The whistleblower, who supervised the Hunter Biden probe since early 2020, hasn\u2019t publicly identified the first son as the subject of the case that he says is being brushed under the rug, but congressional sources confirmed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The federal investigation reportedly has looked at whether Hunter laundered money, violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and lied about his drug use on a gun purchase form.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>House Republicans, meanwhile, are investigating President Biden\u2019s role in his family\u2019s overseas dealings, through which Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden earned millions from partnerships with wealthy people in countries where their powerful relative held sway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Joe Biden met with his relatives\u2019 business associates on many occasions \u2014 including those from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/heres-a-dozen-times-joe-biden-played-a-role-in-hunters-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a>,\u00a0Kazakhstan,\u00a0Mexico,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/02\/unsanctioned-russians-shopped-us-land-with-hunter-biden-dined-with-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0\u2014 and House Republicans allege that Biden family members offered no legitimate business services and were merely selling access to the US government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am waiting for someone to explain to me how the lifestyle of some of our &#8216;representatives&#8217; matches up with their salaries. That alone would justify investigations into many of the people in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, the big news today is the release of the Durham Report. Unfortunately there will be no consequences for those who violated the law, but at least we now have the proof that they did. However, the FBI and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,11531,16425,8321,11882],"class_list":["post-50444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-department-of-justice","tag-hunter-biden","tag-the-internal-revenue-service-irs","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50445,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444\/revisions\/50445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}