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Gay Dem Whistleblower Testifies IRS Blocked From Investigating Biden Family

"No one should be above the law, regardless of your political affiliation."

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It wasn’t all that long ago that internet sleuths were accusing Joseph Ziegler of being a Democrat activist sabotaging the Hunter Biden investigation from within. I think that’s been put to rest today.

In his testimony and an interview with CBS News’ Catherine Herridge (formerly of FOX News), Ziegler made it clear that any attempts at investigating the broader Biden family had been suppressed.

“I was the lead IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden investigation. I recently discovered that people are saying that I must be more credible because I’m a Democrat who happens to be married to a man,” Ziegler stated in his opening statement. “I’m no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. The truth is my credibility comes today from my job experience with the IRS and my intimate knowledge of the agency’s standards and procedures.”

:”I am risking my career, my reputation, and my casework,” he told members of Congress. “No one should be above the law, regardless of your political affiliation.”

Ziegler revealed that, “In August of 2022, we had a phone call with all of the assigned prosecutors and they had said that all four of them were recommending the approval of felony and misdemeanor tax charges.”

Under questioning by Rep. Raskin, he demonstrated the failure to charge Hunter.

During the investigation, Ziegler said he “felt handcuffed.” For example, he says he wanted prosecutors to obtain a search warrant to access a Virginia storage unit to search for potential business records but they declined to do so. He said requests to interview Hunter Biden’s adult children about the tax payments were frustrated by prosecutors, whom he claims said the requests could “get us into hot water.”

Millions of dollars in foreign money poured into shell companies associated with the Biden family.

In another instance, Ziegler said he tried to get location data to determine whether Joe Biden was in the room, as his son had boasted in a 2017 WhatsApp message where he appeared to pressure a Chinese businessman to make good on an outstanding payment by mentioning his father.

“I am sitting here with my father..we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden allegedly texted to the businessman, according to the transcript. He added, “I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand” and “now means tonight.”

Ziegler said the WhatsApp message was found on Hunter Biden’s iCloud account that was obtained through a search warrant. He says he was unable to determine whether Hunter Biden and his father were together when the WhatsApp message was sent. President Biden has said he was never present when any such message was sent and denied any knowledge of this message.

“Anytime we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the president, it was ‘That’s gonna take too much approvals. We can’t ask those questions.”

Zeigler said he expected extra approvals when investigating the son of a president, but he said the requests went unmet.

There would be a point to where it would be like, ‘Well, let’s think about it. Let’s put that on the back burner.’ And it would now move down to item number 50,” Ziegler said.

And that is how we ended up with Hunter’s timid slap on the wrist. And that is why a special counsel is needed. The idea that there was ever a politically independent investigation has fallen apart.

As Gary Shapely, the lead IRS whistleblower testified, this investigation was always under political control.

How thorough was the pass that Hunter Biden got? This thorough.

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Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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  1. No one should be above the law, ESPECIALLY those in power! Who else has more effect on more people than those with political power? It is extremely important to insure that people in power have their records & actions examined for dishonest activities that may impact the citizens that they represent. They can do far more damage to their nation, & to more people, than could an ordinary citizen. Therefore, they must meet a higher standard than does an ordinary citizen, NOT LESS.

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  2. BIDEN IS HITLER okay NYT’s lets see you print that in your headlines of your daily rag

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  3. I didn’t see Ziegler’s interview with Herridge, who’s a real investigative journalist even though she now works for CBS (the Communist Broadcasting Company,) but I saw he and Shapley’s testimony before Congress. It was hard to watch because the uber annoying Dirtbagocrats pulled their usual shit and pontificated and used tu quoque false allegations against Trump in a despicable and typical attempt to deflect attention from the Biden Crime Family, as the dishonest assholes they are, but their emotional speeches only affected the usual retards. And by retards, I mean knee-jerk Dirtbagocrat voters who swallow lies like Pete Buttgig swallows dicks.

    The fact that Ziegler is a gay Dirtbagocrat really infuriated the scummy tards in that Congressional piss party. I laughed watching those scumbags dance around his political affiliation and sexual orientation. He was clever, too. He mentioned his husband right away. Those D-Bags were so upset they almost forgot their prepared speeches. ALMOST. Nothing can deter Dirtbagocrat scumbaggery.

    I once knew a chick who worked for the IRS and she showed me a good time, so It’s nice to see there are some good agents left.

    I still hate paying taxes, though. My name isn’t Crack Hunter, so I have to.

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    • The mentality of the usual retards hasn’t changed, as far as I can see. The stuff they read, like the Atlantic, isn’t meant to inform, but to reinforce their preexisting views. They are really good at that.

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    • There’s a profound moral difference between paying taxes for LEGITIMATE government services and paying taxes to fund the education of your neighbor’s children, Palestinian terrorists, and Ukrainian pensioners. Today the tax-eating parasites are cannibal-like devouring the tax-payer. The American tax-payer has been turned into and altruist SHMOO for the whole wide world to devour.

      “In a fully free society, taxation—or, to be exact, payment for governmental services—would be voluntary. Since the proper services of a government—the police, the armed forces, the law courts—are demonstrably needed by individual citizens and affect their interests directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for insurance.

      The question of how to implement the principle of voluntary government financing—how to determine the best means of applying it in practice—is a very complex one and belongs to the field of the philosophy of law. The task of political philosophy is only to establish the nature of the principle and to demonstrate that it is practicable. The choice of a specific method of implementation is more than premature today—since the principle will be practicable only in a fully free society, a society whose government has been constitutionally reduced to its proper, basic functions….

      The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following premises: that the government is not the owner of the citizens’ income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income—that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined and delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion. Consequently, the principle of voluntary government financing regards the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens—as an agent who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing.” – Ayn Rand

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  4. Soo much corruption. From election fraud to medical fraud to political briberies ,to judicial corruption and finally totally corrupt disgusting individual in The WH who sold every office he held to the highest bidder. I’m not sure how The USA can recover. All previous empires went through what The USA is going through right now, and all of them ended up in ash heap of history. If The USA survives this period, It would be the first. Basically would be a miracle.

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    • Somewhat similar to the Byzantine Empire when the Ottoman Turks were invading. The day they lost their main army in a dreadful battle, the news in Constantinople was about the price of a pearl of great beauty. Or something like that 🙂

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      • I’ve always admired those Basil Emperors of Byzantium for their political skill and intrigue, even though they were stinkers. The first one started out as a peasant, as I’m sure you know. If I remember correctly, he was a stable boy! Shoveling horse shit is about as humble a beginning as it gets. And he went on to rule the most advanced civilization on Earth at the time.

        Byzantine decadence led to its fall to the scummy Turks. Too bad. The loss of the Western Roman Empire was worse but the loss of the Eastern one heralded the Middle Ages, or Dark Ages, according to who you communicate with.

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  5. “No one is above the law,” they incessantly screech.

    Except them. Always.

    This … is how the country dies.

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  6. I’m old enough to remember the Watergate hearings. The Republicans meaningfully participated and were trying to discover the truth, notwithstanding that the President was the Republican Nixon. Contrast that with the Dem’s at yesterday’s and other Congressional hearings where they do nothing but deny, deflect, try to attack and impugn the witnesses and conceal the truth. Such horrible people whose first allegiance is to The Party and have no regard whatsoever for the nation’s interests. Rather, they hideously conflate the two. If they didn’t control the media and education a Dem couldn’t get elected dispatcher anywhere outside of Marin County.

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  7. The big revelation for me was Mr. Ziegler’s testimony that the Biden crime family raked in $17 million in a mere five-year timespan, from years 2014 through 2019. Considering that these reprobates’ foreign influence-peddling racketeering schemes have been going on for decades during crime boss, dotard-marionette, Biden’s, fifty-plus year tenure in political office, the total amount of filthy lucre extorted from foreign actors/governments by the Biden crime family is likely significantly higher than this sum.

    The brazen lawlessness, avarice, laziness and entitlement of the Biden crime family members are contemptible and galling. Like so many Dumb-o-crats, these idiots are too lazy and stupid to actually do substantive work in the private sector to accumulate wealth, but, nonetheless believe themselves to be entitled to live an extravagant lifestyle that is far beyond what would normally be available to them if they were law-abiding citizens instead of greedy criminals.

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  8. By the way, I did a Google News search of “Biden” and “$17 million” — no articles or hits from any of the water-carrying, dutifully obsequious, mainstream media propaganda lapdogs/trained seals/shills at WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, NPR/PBS, the Atlantic, the Nation, Slate or Pravda Times.

    Just imagine the howls of outrage that would emanate from these propaganda organs, if President Trump’s family (or, the family of any other prominent GOP/conservative candidate/officeholder) had enriched itself via a foreign influence-peddling racketeering scheme, to the tune of $17 million over five years, and, probably, $20 to $30 million-plus or more, over the fifty-plus year tenure of crime boss, dotard-marionette, Biden’s, tenure in office?

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    • That movie, “My Son Hunter,” lampooned what bullshit Google searches are. It was funny. If you haven’t seen it, you should watch it. The whole movie is funny.

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