By John Solomon
One of the IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden tax case says some of the evidence that showed the president’s son was engaged in alleged tax evasion came from an unlikely source: Hunter Biden’s own memoir.
IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler told Just the News on Monday that investigators looking into suspect business tax deductions on Hunter Biden’s tax returns found information in his book “Beautiful Things” that the expenses were for personal choices and not corporate benefit.
“That’s almost the biggest component of this that I don’t think that the general public understands: You have statements being made in a book that are talking about going out to California, leaving your life and then going to start this new life. Yet, on your tax return you’re essentially stating things that are completely different,” Ziegler said in a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
Ziegler also said he and fellow whistleblower, IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley, are gathering more documents to provide Congress, including additional WhatsApp messages beyond the one made public from 2017 in which first son Hunter Biden invoked his father’s name in an effort to pressure executives from Chinese energy company CEFC to pay them money.
“We told Congress that any of those records that they were requesting related to that we’re going to turn over the House Ways and Means Committee, and then essentially, they vote those to the full Congress to come out,” he said.
Ziegler pushed back hard against Democrats and Hunter Biden lawyers who have tried to suggest the one message invoking Joe Biden was somehow misleading or contrived. He said while Congress designed its own image of the text message, the actual words and context were accurate.
“I think that they were very clever with their wording that they chose to use,” he said. “I mean, they were correct that those blown-up images weren’t the actual images that we might have seen, if we’re going through and looking at the forensic software.
“I can tell you that those records were obtained via an electronic search warrant that was done on Apple related to Hunter Biden’s iCloud account. And as a part of that there was information that was summarized in a schedule for the investigators. And that was something that I took part in. And that’s what I said as a part of my testimony.”
Ziegler said the WhatsApp messages wasn’t the only evidence of Joe Biden’s association in the tax case. He said a family friend named Rob Walker confirmed to the FBI that Joe Biden, as vice president, attended a meeting with the Chinese executives and that Hunter Biden deducted as a business expense a hotel room in father’s name.
“The receipt came back to his (Joe’s) name. And there was actually a receipt for some service or something that was done as a part of that room that was also included in there,” Ziegler explained, adding his team was prevented from determine whether Joe Biden actually used the room or was present at the hotel.
“But what I think it’s important to know is that that was a deduction that was taken on Hunter’s tax return,” he added.
Ziegler said he read for the first time an FBI informant report known as a FD-1023 alleging that the Bidens were involved in a $10 million bribery scheme in Ukraine after it was made public Thursday by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
“Yes, I have read it. But I don’t have any comments on it, other than the fact that I’ve never – I did not see that memo,” he said. “And that’s something that wasn’t provided to me. … Yes, it would have been helpful in corroborating potentially other evidence in the investigation.”
Ziegler said agents saw evidence that Hunter Biden was engaged in tax evasion that stretched back two decades, and continued even after one of his business partners, Eric Schwerin, tried to create an entity called Owasco PC to ensure taxes were properly filed.
“In my transcript, I talked about certain issues that Hunter had I think going back to early 2000s,” he said. “There was a large amount of late-filed and delinquent taxes that he had. And essentially Eric Schwerin, his business partner, came in and tried to help him out by setting up the Owasco entity so that he could have some his money flow through that so that he didn’t run into these problems again.”
Such alleged evasion, he said, met the standard of willful. (Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors alleging willful evasion, prosecutors have said.) Zeigler noted, as an example, that Hunter Biden tried to disguise as loans money that was paid to him as income from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine
The smartest guy idiot Biden knows. He’s so proud of him. Hunter leaves an evidence trail like someone tramping through wet snow in snow shoes.
It is time to begin a formal impeachment inquiry of joe biden.
End America’s Second Civil War NOW Before It Begins
Roughly half of Republicans and over a third of Democrats believe America is on the brink of civil war. If such an unthinkable war breaks out, it will be the Democrats’ fault.
In their quest for power, radical elements within the Democrat Party have abandoned any pretense of fairness, tolerance, and justice. In their woke new world, Democrat strategists use unscrupulous lawfare tactics to skew our election system even as weaponized bureaucracies like the Department of Justice, FBI, and National Archives now under Democrat control seek to destroy the Republican party and its de facto leader Donald Trump.
For more than 200 years, Americans lived in a world of paper ballots with strict ID and signature match procedures where only legal votes counted. Today, through bends in the law and sleights of hand by Democrat Secretaries of State, Democrats have created a “stuff the ballot box” world where absentee and mail-in voting, universal voting, automatic voter registration, drop boxes, ballot harvesting and relaxed signature match procedures have blown open the doors to all manner of fraud.
The Democrat’s persecution and prosecutions of Trump — and his advisers — are equally toxic to our democracy. Never did I imagine in January of 2017 when I entered the White House to serve my country that virtually everyone I would share a foxhole with – along with the president himself –would be assaulted with indictment after indictment and subpoena after subpoena not just by the DOJ but also by big city, often George Soros-backed, District Attorneys and blue state Attorneys General.
The Democrat’s lawfare goal is to convict Trump of anything that will prevent him from running for president or serving if he wins. As Stalin’s deputy premier Beria once boasted: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
Barring such a conviction, Joe Biden’s hit men, with names like Garland and Smith, hope to bury Trump in enough mud to sour the electorate on him. This withering assault on my former boss constitutes unlawful election interference at best and seditionous conspiracy at worst.
In the case of Trump’s advisors and closest aides, some are being pressured with threats of prison to turn on Trump. Some are facing threats to their livelihood, e.g., John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Jeff Clark all face disbarment by Democrat-controlled bar associations. ALL of us are being buried in massive legal fees, with this lawfare burden cynically designed to silence us in the public arena and siphon money away from Republican donors that might otherwise be spent on winning back Congress and the White House.
Meanwhile, to put an exclamation point on this unprecedented weaponization of America’s now dual system of injustice, the sex-trafficking, gun-toting, foreign influence-peddling Hunter Biden, along with a long list of Democrats involved in the Russia Hoax and other efforts to overthrow the Trump presidency, remain free of legal scrutiny.
Of course, NONE of this unprecedented political violence is really about Trump or his advisers. As Trump himself has rightly said, the Democrats are really coming for YOU – we Trump folks are just in the way.
When I say “you,” I mean you in that broad swath of Americana that still believes in god, country, and family and constitutional principles like freedom of speech and association; the right to bear arms and own property; secure borders; and equal justice under law. It is between you in this Middle America majority and the most radical elements of an increasingly socialist Democrat Party that a civil war is most likely to break out.
Here, we would do well to remember that America’s first civil war was a just and righteous one. The North sought to abolish slavery, and over half a million Americans from both sides would perish before that dust and issue was settled for the good of all.
The Democrat activists and strategists now driving this nation towards a second civil war have neither justice nor righteousness on their side. Instead, they are attempting to trample on our religions, disarm us, and impose all manner of woke social, cultural, and economic changes that are far outside the bounds of America’s traditions, traditional values, and constitutional roots.
My strong admonition to these Democrats – as I appeal to the wiser in your party — is this: Back this anti-democratic truck up before it runs over you.
Do you not understand that the longer you engage in your assaults on American families and values, the more likely a new civil war becomes? And do you not understand that the perverse precedents you are creating through your weaponized bureaucracies and woke attacks will come back to haunt you as soon as Republicans take back Trump’s America from your cold woke hands?
Peter Navarro’s Taking Back Trump’s America is a reader-supported publication.