The Hunter Biden saga has only escalated in the days following his plea deal with his father's administration, particularly as two IRS whistleblowers have been sounding the alarm about alleged misconduct with the DOJ's handling of the investigation.
However, members of the legacy media aren't exactly covering the IRS whistleblowers; they're covering IRS "whistleblowers," in scare quotes.
The New York Times made news on Tuesday when it confirmed a claim made by IRS investigator Gary Shapley, who alleged that U.S. Attorney David Weiss told multiple people the DOJ rejected his requests to bring harsher charges against Hunter Biden in California and Washington D.C. Instead of labeling him a whistleblower in the article, the Times described him as "testifying under what Republicans say are whistle-blower protections."
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In a separate report published the same day, Times reporter Peter Baker offered an even more skeptical framing.
"[C]ongressional Republicans have been promoting two I.R.S. ‘whistle-blowers’ who assert that the Justice Department restrained Mr. Weiss, despite his own denial," Baker wrote in a report focused on Democrats being "uncomfortable" by Hunter Biden's recent public appearances.
Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross thought it was "curious" the Times seemed to use quotations to suggest "they aren't actually whistleblowers," later noting how the paper didn't...
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