President Biden hugs son Hunter Biden after addressing the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024. (Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)
Comer continued in his blistering response to the report by citing two IRS whistleblowers who sounded the alarm on Hunter Biden's tax issues and said they were handcuffed from "following evidence that could have led to Joe Biden."
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"Two brave whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, blew the whistle on DOJ’s misconduct and politicization in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation and revealed they were prevented from following evidence that could have led to Joe Biden. Joe Biden will be remembered for using his last few weeks in office to shield his son from the law and protect himself. The president’s legacy is the same as his family’s business dealings: corrupt," Comer continued.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer speaks during a news conference. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
"Why are we the only ones suffering any consequences? It's time for a serious investigation and it's time for accountability," they concluded.
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Weiss' report also took issue with the president's pardoning of Hunter Biden, specifically with how President Biden characterized prosecutions of Hunter Biden as "selective" and "unfair."
"This statement is gratuitous and wrong," Weiss wrote in his report. "Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations."
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"Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public's confidence in our criminal justice system," Weiss wrote in another section of the report. "The President's statements unfairly impugn the integrity not only of Department of Justice personnel, but all of the public servants making these difficult decisions in good faith."
Weiss' report also determined that the first son's previous and well-documented addiction to substances such as crack cocaine could not explain why he failed to pay taxes on millions of dollars of income earned off of his "last name and connections."
Hunter Biden, joined by his his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, depart from the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 4,, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Weiss continued in his report that Hunter Biden "spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills," and that he "willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes."
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"These are not 'inconsequential' or ‘technical’ tax code violations," Weiss wrote. "Nor can Mr. Biden's conduct be explained away by his drug use – most glaringly, Mr. Biden filed his false 2018 return, in which he deliberately underreported his income to lower his tax liability, in February 2020, approximately eight months after he had regained his sobriety. Therefore, the prosecution of Mr. Biden was warranted given the nature and seriousness of his tax crimes."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on the report and Comer's response, but did not immediately receive a response.
Hunter Biden arrives with attorney Abbe Lowell for a closed-door deposition in a Republican-led investigation into the Biden family, on Capitol Hill, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, released a statement Monday evening following the report, "David Weiss’ 27-page report continues to ignore some of the major mysteries of his 7-year investigation."
"Mr. Weiss conveniently omits his proposal to resolve this investigation in 2023 with a pair of misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge recommended by career prosecutors. Mr. Weiss also fails to explain why he reneged on his own agreement, a reversal that came at the 11th hour in court as he and his office faced blistering attacks from Republicans and his then filing unprecedented charges for someone with no aggravating gun factors who had paid his taxes in full years before the charges were filed," Lowell said in the statement.
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"Finally, and most curious, Mr. Weiss fails to clarify why he and his prosecutors pursued wild – and debunked – conspiracies about Mr. Biden by a Russian agent that prolonged this investigation and ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars. What is clear from this report is that the investigation into Hunter Biden is a cautionary tale of the abuse of prosecutorial power."
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