Newly reported testimony from participants in a key meeting undercuts key claims from the whistleblower.
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del.
Between McCarthy’s Tuesday impeachment announcement regarding the president and Thursday’s indictment of his son, significant new information emerged. That includes testimony from multiple participants in an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting about the Hunter Biden investigation involving Weiss and FBI and IRS agents. Testimony about that meeting further called into question the claims of an IRS whistleblower - claims both Weiss and Garland had already disputed.
The next big event is likely to be Weiss’s testimony; the Justice Department has proposed dates for late September or mid-October. He reiterated, after House Republicans began probing Shapley’s claims, that Weiss had been “given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.”In a series of letters responding to scrutiny from House Republicans, the U.S. attorney denied having requested special counsel status at the time.
Sobocinski confirmed that his version of events differed from Shapley’s and said he spoke with “various members of the team” about the discrepancies.