House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted on Sunday that U.S.
Attorney David Weiss, the federal prosecutor appointed by
Republican ex-president Donald Trump and overseeing the
investigation, must answer questions about whistleblower
allegations that the Justice Department intervened in the case
to protect Biden's son.
"If the whistleblowers' allegations are true, this will be a
significant part of a larger impeachment inquiry into Merrick
Garland's weaponization of DOJ," McCarthy said, using the
acronym for the Justice Department.
Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor
charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes and to enter as
part of an agreement that could avert conviction on a
gun-related charge, according to court documents filed last
week.
Garland has denied Internal Revenue Service whistleblower
testimony alleging that Weiss was hindered by the Justice
Department from pursuing a more aggressive investigation of the
president's son.
House Republicans, some eager to seek retribution for Trump who
was impeached twice when Democrats controlled the House, have
launched multiple investigations into Biden's family and
administration to seek evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump, who faces multiple investigations and a federal
indictment, is running for re-election in 2024.
Last week, two Trump allies introduced House resolutions to
expunge the former president's 2019 impeachment for allegedly
pressuring Ukraine's government to help him win re-election, and
his 2021 impeachment over the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
Capitol by his supporters.
McCarthy, who backs the effort to expunge Trump's record, has
also leveled an impeachment threat against another Biden Cabinet
member, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, over the
administration's immigration policies.
Hardline Republican conservative Representative Lauren Boebert
tried to force the House to vote to impeach Biden over
immigration and border security last week.
Fellow hardline Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is also
pressing for the impeachments of Biden, Garland, Mayorkas, FBI
Director Christopher Wray and a U.S. attorney prosecuting
participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
(Reporting by David Morgan; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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