Democrats on the House Oversight Committee lost a heated hearing Wednesday after two IRS whistleblowers testified that the Justice Department had politically obstructed the investigation. of President Biden Youngest son Hunter Biden.
Rep. Kwayi Muhme (D-Md.) spent the time allotted questioning whistleblowers and instead lashed out at the committee’s focus on Hunter Biden, arguing that the FBI, Department of Justice and IRS are “squeezing this democracy” and discarding prepared remarks in discontent.
“Now here’s where I get mad: I don’t like the attacks on the Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS as if they were anti-U.S. agencies. They’re stifling this democracy… They’re giving checks, they’re providing balance,” Mufum said, referring to Republican members of the committee who have criticized these agencies for alleged interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
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Rep. Kweishi Muhme (D-Md.) attends a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I’m repeating this for a Hunter Biden show to someone who was responsible for pleading guilty and not filing taxes for two years. This is ridiculous. Beam up Scotty. No intelligent life here. No one,” he added later angrily while shredding the papers in front of him.
Before the outburst occurred, Mufum tried to draw attention from the commission’s investigation into Hunter Biden to pending legal hurdles facing former President Donald Trump.
“I want to congratulate our colleagues who gathered us here from across the aisle today, almost distracting us from the largest investigation in our country’s history involving the former president, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, who is now underway in our country and is currently being indicted on 37 counts,” he said.
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden (D, Delaware, left) stands with his son Hunter during a reenactment of the Senate swearing-in ceremony on the Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, in January 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Darapak, File)
Noting that President Trump could face further indictments in other investigations, he tried to downplay Hunter Biden’s legal woes by claiming that he “already failed to file taxes, pleaded guilty to firearms charges, and is now paying for prostitution.”
He accused Trump of seeking “special treatment” in classified documents cases and called on the commission to hold hearings on the former president’s “history of tax evasion.”
“When we talk about this, let’s be real. It’s not just Hunter Biden. But as long as we’re talking about Hunter Biden, we forget everything else,” Mufum said. “And yet again, Hunter Biden came forward and said I didn’t file taxes for two years. And yes, I’m responsible for this gun crime.”
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IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley (left) and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler are sworn into office as they testify before the House Oversight Committee hearing related to the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 19, 2023. The commission heard testimony from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers who allege that the Hunter Biden criminal investigation was mishandled by the Justice Department. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
IRS whistleblowers allege there was a pattern of “slow investigations” into Hunter Biden, including instructions not to converse with him at the mansion, and the president’s He reportedly informed his son and staff about the ongoing efforts and delayed enforcement action for months. Before the 2020 presidential election.
Two former agents have been assigned to federal investigations into Hunter Biden’s tax and gun charges. Biden eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense that drew criticism from Republican lawmakers as part of a lenient agreement with federal prosecutors. The hearing comes amid an ongoing House Republican investigation into the president and his family after the Justice Department found no evidence of criminal conduct.
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Brooke Singman of FOX News contributed to this report.
