Some Republicans once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who testified before Congress Wednesday about possible interference in the investigation of Hunter Biden, was biased in Biden’s favor because he’s a gay man and a Democrat. Now that he’s a whistleblower saying the investigation was insufficient and hampered by outside forces, the GOP is pointing to those facts as evidence he’s not biased.
Ziegler has worked for the IRS since 2010 and before that was an external auditor with Ernst & Young, a firm providing consulting, accounting, and other business services. He testified Wednesday along with Shapley as the Republican-led Oversight Committee sought evidence to back its allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice interfered in the IRS’s investigation of Hunter Biden. Biden is expected to enter into a plea deal on misdemeanor charges of failing to pay income tax and a felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm. He will plead guilty to the tax charges, and the gun charge will be dismissed if he complies with certain conditions, and he will likely avoid jail time. Many Republicans are claiming that as the president’s son, he received favorable treatment.
Ziegler was previously known as “Agent X” in the Biden probe, but his identity was made public at the insistence of the House Oversight Committee, which held the hearing Wednesday. He also gave a deposition to members of Congress behind closed doors last month....
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