Hunter Biden investigation heats up

 Red States:

Things with Hunter Biden seem to be heating up. As we reported, the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden supposedly has reached a “critical stage” with the U.S. Attorney considering whether to charge him, according to multiple reports.

Meanwhile, Congressional oversight in regard to Hunter has increased over the past couple of months.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to Hunter Biden’s financial adviser Edward Prewitt, demanding he turn over documents regarding transactions flagged by banks with Suspicious Activity Reports, financial information on Biden’s businesses and any communications from Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, Eric Schwerin, or any agent for them. Comer said in the letter that Hunter Biden knew he was being scoped by the reports and was trying to avoid detection. The letter also went into Joe Biden’s possible connection.

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“The American people deserve to know the President’s connections to his son’s business deals, which have occurred at the expense of American interests and may represent a national security threat,” Comer wrote to Prewitt.

Prewitt didn’t respond to inquiries from Fox News.

Meanwhile, the senators who have been pursuing Hunter Biden oversight are raising even bigger questions about the FBI and the DOJ being tainted by politics, in what cases they choose to pursue and what cases they don’t choose to pursue.

The ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, noting he had received information from whistleblowers within the FBI. The whistleblowers said there had been a continuing effort among certain FBI officials to improperly discredit any negative information about Hunter Biden. Not only that, but Grassley said he had information that they were doing things like opening up investigations regarding the Trump campaign on media reports, while trying to call things concerning Hunter Biden disinformation.

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Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is demanding the appointment of a special counsel and an investigation into the whistleblower allegations, saying there may have been an effort by the FBI to undermine their Congressional investigation.

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I think both inquiries are worthwhile and needed.  I would go beyond just a focus on whether Hunter Biden failed to register to do foreign deals and push the inquiry to look into whether it was part of an influence-peddling scheme involving his father and uncle.  The FBI revelations also deserve an inquiry to see if any laws were broken.  A special counsel probably should be appointed to look into both.

See, also:

FBI analyst who helped shut down Hunter Biden inquiry earlier referred for disciplinary action

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