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September 20, 2023 | Rapid Response | RNC Communications
Democrat Fails, Hypocrisy, and Lies

Garland's Brazen Denials

Rapid Response

Today, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee.

It did not go well.

The hearing was to provide oversight of the Department of Justice and its handling of the Hunter Biden criminal investigation — but Garland’s appearance left far more questions than answers.

  • Garland admitted U.S. Attorney David Weiss did not, in fact, have full authority to bring charges in the Hunter Biden probe — despite the DOJ’s past insistence.
  • Garland refused to say whether he had discussions with Weiss, as U.S. attorney or special counsel, regarding the Hunter Biden probe.
  • Garland could not “recollect” whether he discussed the Hunter Biden probe with officials at FBI headquarters.
  • Garland dismissed the sworn testimony of multiple IRS whistleblowers alleging political interference in the Hunter Biden probe.
  • Garland could not explain why the Hunter Biden investigation has taken more than four-and-a-half years — nor why Weiss allowed the statute of limitations to expire over certain alleged crimes committed during Hunter Biden’s tenure on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his dad was vice president.
  • Garland insisted “no one that I know of” has discussed the Hunter Biden probe with any officials in the Biden White House.
  • Garland claimed he is unaware of the millions of dollars moved through shell companies set up by a Biden family associate and paid into various Biden-linked accounts.

Of course, Garland is being deceptive (at best). We’ve long known Biden family members received payments from numerous foreign countries. We’ve long known that agents were allegedly prevented from pursuing certain damning aspects of the investigation and that agents were unable to interview Hunter Biden after the Biden transition team was tipped off the night before a planned meeting. And we’ve long known Garland refused to appoint a special counsel in the matter until he appointed the same man who slow-walked the prosecution in the first place.

That Garland simultaneously claims both definitive knowledge of Weiss’s prosecutorial discretion AND that he “purposely” removed himself from decision-making processes fails basic scrutiny.

If it looks like a coverup, and it smells like a coverup, then it must be…

A coverup.