WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday his testimony to Congress about a long-running federal criminal investigation of first son Hunter Biden was truthful in response to an IRS whistleblower’s bombshell claims alleging a coverup.
A journalist asked Garland at an unrelated press conference about the whistleblower complaint and noted that the AG had “assured Congress some time ago that the Hunter Biden investigation would be conducted without any kind of political interference.”
“I wonder if you would believe that that is still the case — if that is still the case that the investigation is not being interfered with in any political way since an agent from [the IRS] has now come forward claiming whistleblower status and alleging that there has been some kind of interference,” the journalist asked.
“Yes, it’s still the case,” Garland said in his first public response to the allegations.
“I stand by my testimony and I refer you to the attorney for the district of Delaware, who is in charge of this case and capable of making any decisions that he feels are appropriate.”
The whistleblower supervised the IRS probe of Hunter for three years and on April 19 informed Congress that there had been “preferential treatment” in the case as well as false testimony to Congress by an official later revealed to be Garland.
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