AOC Reacts To Marjorie Taylor Greene Showing Pornographic Images From Hunter Biden's Laptop

and that concludes our questions again I want to thank you all for being here I'm going to yield to the much improved ranking member Miss ocasio-cortez from New York for closing statement I'll uh I'll take the gold star thank you chairman um and I'd like to thank our Witnesses here today once again we acknowledge fully that this is not easy and that your respect rather your your service and your public service here is respected and acknowledged and valued so thank you thank you for your testimony um you know I think it is important for us to you know summarize much of what we heard and saw today and overall what what this matter is about a U.S attorney hand-picked by attorney general Barr has for four years investigated together with a dozen agents and at least four prosecutors from his office and the tax division of the Department of Justice the son of President Biden Hunter Biden has been charged with a felony and misdemeanors and two misdemeanors and he is pleading guilty to several crimes and submitting to sentencing by an appointed judge a trump appointed judge however we are also seeing today is a an effort to find some issue with this prosecution this existing prosecution this is a person who has admitted to crimes um and finding evidence of political interference a very serious charge so much of what we saw today honed in on a conversation the testimony honed in on a conversation that one of today's Witnesses was involved in in which Mr shapley heard Mr Weiss to say that he was denied special counsel status that that account had been contradicted by the U.S attorney wise who has reiterated several times that he had full authority to bring any charges in any district and had received assurances from the Department of Justice that if he needed special attorney status not counsel but rather attorney status to bring those charges it would be granted so we are left here with two possible options for this story that either Mr Weiss Who was appointed by President Donald J Trump entrusted by attorney general Barr also serving under Trump was lying to protect the Biden Administration or he respectfully disagreed with the charges that today's two witnesses wanted to bring as Professionals in their professional opinion disagreement over charges is not uncommon the IRS criminal tax Council attorneys have disagreed in charging decisions as we heard here today 90 percent of the time and in this particular case reviewing Attorneys at IRS and the tax division raised issues with the proposed charges and the witnesses described how Mr wise expressed some concerns about the charges in fact in some of the testimony we saw Mr shapley recognized with regard to at least one of the charges which he himself recommended he could and I am quoting from testimony quote see some issues with that that would preclude preclude it from being charged now I understand why the two witnesses who testified here today are disappointed after five years of Investigation I believe you all are honorable serving professionals truly um and that Mr Weiss disagreed with this analysis of facts um there was absolutely frustration that there were that uh to not quote have a seat at the table that Mr Weiss made his decision about how to charge in this case and he did charge and that was a decision that he as the U.S attorney in charge of the case was empowered to make the question though I believe um that is very important to address is why we are holding these hearings today um despite what we have seen as deliberate lobbying for this hearing by a political candidate um Donald J Trump what we also saw today was the Revival of certain conspiracy theories around Ukraine first promoted by Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first impeachment in 2019 and his re-election campaign we did not bring that up that was first brought up by the Republican side that required addressing here today chairman Comer started this hearing by asking these Witnesses about barisma and other members of the committee again raised the Specter of these debunked conspiracy theories it has been debunked time and time again including by Trump's own Department of Justice but that being said this is the problem with bringing these conspiracy theories into this this committee they beget more it does not stop and today we have gotten a new conspiracy theory one that requires us to believe that David Weiss a trump appointed U.S attorney trusted by Trump appointed attorney general Barr has somehow been complicit in abetting and concealing a deep state conspiracy to protect Hunter Biden on behalf of the Biden Administration when they were selected by Donald Trump this is a spirit this is a theory which has apparently been proven unsuccessful given that Hunter Biden is now criminally charged and facing sentencing by a trump-appointed judge today also marked a new low when pornographic images were paraded in this hearing room chairman Comer last October you told Time magazine that you were not interested in the sorted details of Hunter Biden's life you were quoted as saying quote that's counter to a credible investigation and I agree sadly that is a reflection of how low some individuals here have been willing to go in their efforts to attack the president and his family and frankly I don't care who you are in this country no one deserves that it is abuse it is abusive if Republicans truly want to get to the fact here and they want to understand why Mr Weiss decided to charge Hunter Biden the way he did let's hear from Mr Weiss but until then we must move on from these theories and focus on the issues that matter to the American people like ending the scourge of gun violence that is plaguing our country confronting and combating the climate crisis and standing up for our constitutional rights and yes going after the enormous amount of inequity and Injustice in our tax system and with that I yield back to the chair get a lady yields back

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Published: Thu Jul 20 2023