IRS whistleblowers slam Hunter Biden's pardon: Taxpayers held to different standard than the 'political elite'

Two IRS whistleblowers who testified earlier Congress past twelvemonth astir the Justice Department's alleged interference successful a taxation probe lawsuit into Hunter Biden said the president's sweeping pardon of his lad wasn't surprising.

IRS supervisory peculiar cause Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, a peculiar cause with the IRS' transgression probe division, spoke exclusively with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum Monday connected "The Story" successful their archetypal interrogation since President Biden issued a afloat and unconditional pardon for his son.

"I wasn't amazed astatine all. This was thing that was expected," Shapley said of the pardon. "You tin archer by the maneuvering of defence counsel that this was connected the horizon. And, you know, the happening that's astonishing is that the President of the United States lied to the American radical astir what helium was going to do."

Hunter Biden, lad of U.S. President Joe Biden departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building connected June 03, 2024 successful Wilmington, Delaware. Biden is lasting proceedings for felony weapon charges.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden repeatedly denied helium would pardon his son, who pleaded blameworthy successful September to the 9 charges against him successful a national taxation case, including 3 felony taxation offenses and six misdemeanor taxation offenses. 

The archetypal lad was besides recovered blameworthy successful June of 3 felonies related to the amerciable acquisition of a firearm. 

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Biden connected Sunday announced helium was pardoning his lone surviving son, who helium says was "selectively" and "unfairly" prosecuted. The pardon covers a 10-year play for immoderate offenses the younger Biden committed oregon whitethorn person committed from 2014-2024.

President Joe Biden (left) and his lad Hunter Biden (right). (Fox News)

"No tenable idiosyncratic who looks astatine the facts of Hunter’s cases tin scope immoderate different decision than Hunter was singled retired lone due to the fact that helium is my lad – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to interruption Hunter – who has been 5 and a fractional years sober, adjacent successful the look of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution," Biden said successful a connection released by the White House. "In trying to interruption Hunter, they’ve tried to interruption maine – and there’s nary crushed to judge it volition halt here. Enough is enough."

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Special cause Ziegler told MacCallum that Biden's claims his lad was "singled out" are "completely ludicrous."

"I'm a Democrat, and I'm a idiosyncratic that believes successful the regularisation of law. When you look astatine what helium was charged with, transgression taxation evasion, and what helium pled blameworthy to, there's thousands of taxpayers who honestly record their taxes, they wage their taxes connected time, and I deliberation they should beryllium disappointed by this due to the fact that they're held up to a modular that's antithetic than the governmental elite," said Ziegler.

Supervisory IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley (L) and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler are sworn-in arsenic they attest during a House Oversight Committee proceeding related to the Justice Department's probe of Hunter Biden, connected Capitol Hill July 19, 2023 successful Washington, DC.  (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

He added that astatine the extremity of the day, he’s disappointed Hunter Biden got a "free pass." 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, wrote connected X, formerly Twitter, that helium was "disappointed" successful Biden’s determination to pardon his lad due to the fact that the commander-in-chief made the determination to enactment his household "ahead of the country."

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"This is simply a atrocious precedent that could beryllium abused by aboriginal Presidents and volition sadly tarnish his reputation," Polis wrote. "Hunter brought the ineligible occupation helium faced connected himself, and 1 tin sympathize with his struggles portion besides acknowledging that no 1 is supra the law, not a President and not a President’s son."