{"id":1603092,"date":"2022-08-12T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603092"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:31:23","slug":"grassley-to-wray-why-is-there-one-law-for-hunter-biden-and-hillary-another-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-to-wray-why-is-there-one-law-for-hunter-biden-and-hillary-another-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley To Wray: Why Is There One Law For Hunter Biden And Hillary, Another For Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassley-to-wray-why-is-there-one-law-for-hunter-biden-and-hillary-another-for-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603092&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley filed a blistering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/fbi_oversight_hearing_questions_for_the_record_-_senator_grassley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list of questions<\/a> for the record addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday, demanding the law enforcement bureaucrat answer questions about his agency\u2019s malfeasance, including its raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s private home and its disparate treatment of Democrats like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter. Grassley gave Wray a deadline of Aug. 25 to respond to the 15-page document.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley ordered Wray to explain why he bailed early on a hearing for questioning from Congress, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/08\/did-fbi-director-christopher-wray-bail-on-a-senate-hearing-so-the-dojs-gulfstream-could-take-him-on-vacation-in-new-york\/\">reports<\/a> that Wray may have left for vacation on the FBI\u2019s private jet. \u201cNews reports indicate that you took your government plane to the Adirondacks,\u201d Grassley wrote. \u201cIs that true? If so, why couldn\u2019t you have stayed for a second round to complete the hearing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Wray\u2019s FBI descending on Trump\u2019s private Florida home in an \u201cunannounced raid\u201d on Monday, Grassley also demanded answers about the unprecedented move. He asked Wray to provide \u201cthe predicating records, including the search warrant and supporting affidavit\u201d for the raid, to explain whether the scope of the investigation into the likely 2024 candidate was \u201climited to federal records and classification issues,\u201d and to answer whether the White House was involved in or aware of the raid. <\/p>\n<h2>One Rule for Hillary, Another for Trump<\/h2>\n<p>The senator also highlighted the bureau\u2019s disparate treatment of Democrats who violated federal records laws as Trump is apparently accused of doing. When Clinton and her staff\u2019s \u201cmishandling of highly classified information resulted in 91 valid security violations committed by 38 individuals, some of whom \u2018deliberately transmitted\u2019 classified information via Clinton\u2019s unsecured server,\u201d the FBI never raided their homes, Grassley noted. He also criticized that investigation as inappropriately limited, and re-raised concerns he had brought up to the FBI back in 2016 about its \u201ckid-gloves treatment\u201d of the Clinton team, including that \u201cthe FBI inexplicably agreed to destroy [Clinton staffers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson\u2019s] laptops knowing that the contents were the subject of Congressional subpoenas and preservation letters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we now know,\u201d Grassley continued, \u201cthe FBI pulled its punches and Director Comey drafted an exoneration statement for Secretary Clinton before interviewing her and 16 other relevant witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Wray, he demanded to know: \u201cWith respect to the 91 security violations committed by the 38 individuals relating to Secretary Clinton\u2019s mishandling of highly classified information, did the State Department refer any of them to the Justice Department or FBI? If so, what steps were taken to investigate them for those security violations and potential criminal conduct?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassley also noted that when Clinton lawyer David Kendall stored a flash drive with classified information, the State Department said it \u201csimply cleared the site where they\u2019re being held, made sure that it was a secure facility, and capable of holding what could be classified material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid the FBI engage in the same conduct with respect to former President Trump and Mar-a-Lago?\u201d Grassley asked. \u201cIf not, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that, for Clinton, \u201cThe government even allowed non-government attorneys to draft the letters that circumscribed the scope of the document review that would be performed by the FBI,\u201d Grassley wanted to know if Trump\u2019s lawyers were given the same preferential treatment, as well as the opportunity to have the FBI \u201cdestroy government records\u201d as the bureau did for Clinton.<\/p>\n<h2>Special Treatment for Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Grassley also highlighted whistleblower reports of the FBI\u2019s special treatment for President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter. \u201cWhistleblowers have alleged to my office that the FBI gave preferential treatment to the Biden family by shutting down investigative activity and sources with respect to potentially criminal information on Hunter Biden,\u201d he noted. Those allegations included that the FBI had opened and then used an assessment to \u201cimproperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease\u201d just months before the 2020 presidential election. At the same time, Biden\u2019s Big Tech allies were censoring reporting of damning evidence about Hunter as \u201cdisinformation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Grassley also cited allegations that \u201cFBI officials, including [Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy] Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat steps has the FBI taken to investigate ASAC Thibault for attempting to improperly shut down sources who provided information on Hunter Biden to the FBI?\u201d Grassley asked. \u201cIf no steps have been taken, why not?\u201d Among other evidence, he also demanded \u201call records related to derogatory information on Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their foreign business relationships\u201d and wanted to know \u201cwhat evidence of disinformation did the FBI require before wholly discounting derogatory information on Hunter Biden?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassley also demanded the FBI make records from the Obama FBI\u2019s Crossfire Hurricane probe into then-candidate Trump available to Congress, asked about the \u201cFBI\u2019s policies to detect and prevent politicized decisions,\u201d and requested information about the FBI\u2019s investigations into pro-abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/12\/feds-suddenly-remember-to-decry-threats-of-violence-after-ignoring-violent-dobbs-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extremist violence after the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision<\/a>. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. 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