{"id":1959324,"date":"2023-06-28T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-in-paragraph-21-of-lengthy-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:18:40","slug":"new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-in-paragraph-21-of-lengthy-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-in-paragraph-21-of-lengthy-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times admits Hunter Biden revelation in lengthy report."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnew-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-in-paragraph-21-of-lengthy-report%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=1959324&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--><h2>New York Times Makes Shocking Admission About Hunter Biden in Lengthy Report<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, America\u2019s paper of record, The New York Times, ran a piece about the wayward son of our nation\u2019s 46th president: \u201cCompeting Accounts of Justice Dept.\u2019s Handling of Hunter Biden Case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/irs-official-justice-dept-hunter-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> wasn\u2019t handled by amateurs. Glenn Thrush and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt, who share the byline, are two of the paper\u2019s top Washington correspondents.<\/p>\n<p>The article was, by all appearances, packaged as an overview of exactly what the title suggested: how the Department of Justice went about looking into Hunter Biden\u2019s finances and truthfulness on federal firearm application forms, and those who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/republicans-ready-use-nuclear-option-garland-not-empty-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don\u2019t quite trust<\/a> that all was handled fairly.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation, as we know, ended with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/no-dignity-video-hunter-biden-plea-deal-shows-just-corrupt-wh-really\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slap on the wrist<\/a> for Hunter\u2019s failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018 and for lying about whether he was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/armed-human-smugglers-arrested-in-texas-after-crash-on-railroad-track-near-border\/\" title=\"Armed Human Smugglers Arrested in Texas After Crash on Railroad Track near Border\">active drug user<\/a> at the time he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-secret-service-intervened-bizarre-hunter-biden-gun-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought a gun<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third paragraphs in the story laid out the question at hand quite neatly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDid David C. Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware kept on under [Attorney General Merrick] Garland to continue overseeing the inquiry, have full authority to bring charges against President Biden\u2019s son in California and Washington if he wanted to? Had Mr. Weiss ever asked to be made a special counsel? Was the investigation truly insulated from political considerations?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat encounter has taken on new significance after House Republicans released testimony last week from a senior Internal Revenue Service investigator on the case that appeared to contradict Mr. Garland\u2019s assurances to Mr. Grassley and others that Mr. Weiss had all the freedom and authority he needed to pursue the case as he saw fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That whistleblower is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/whistleblower-drops-bombshell-fbi-knew-hunter-bidens-laptop-real-deal-months-made-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Shapley<\/a>, who had previously overseen the IRS\u2019 role in the Hunter Biden investigation. One of the allegations he made was that Weiss informed multiple witnesses that he was told by the DOJ that no charges must be brought against Hunter. Garland, meanwhile, said there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-ag-garland-claims-biden-admin-isnt-interfering-hunter-investigation-not-heard-anything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no interference<\/a> in the Hunter probe.<\/p>\n<p>In this attempt to adumbrate the \u201ccompeting accounts\u201d of how the Hunter Biden investigation went down in a concise, fair manner, Thrush and Schmidt declined to note until the 21st paragraph that, actually, a considerable body of evidence exists that Weiss was interfered with.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s by accident.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you think Hunter Biden got special treatment from the DOJ?<\/h3>\n<form id=\"firefly-poll\" onsubmit=\"ff_poll_submit(event)\">\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\">\n    <label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"yes\">Yes<\/label><br \/>\n    <label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"no\">No<\/label><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n      Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Vote\">\n  <\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n      Yes: 0% (0 Votes)\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n      No: 0% (0 Votes)\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<p>After no less than 20 paragraphs of situating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/matt-gaetz-sends-scathing-letter-merrick-garland-list-3-demands-ag-weeks-comply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merrick Garland<\/a>, David Weiss and the Department of Justice on one side and a single whistleblower and conspiracy-minded Republicans on the other, the Times\u2019 reporters admitted that, yes, independent confirmation that Weiss had been stymied had been obtained by\u2026 their own paper. Indeed, they may have been the ones who <em>obtained<\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s back up to Paragraph 18 for a second, where the writers claim that \u201cif Mr. Garland was content with how the politically explosive case was being handled, Mr. Shapley, a 14-year I.R.S. employee, was stewing in the shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStewing in the shadows\u201d may be the perfect \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/republicans-pounce-an-investigative-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans pounce<\/a>\u201d of establishment media linguistic tools to smear whistleblowers, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>In Paragraph 19, the authors note that Shapley \u201crecounted in his testimony that he had been arguing in meetings with Mr. Weiss and other prosecutors to aggressively pursue charges against Mr. Biden stemming from his failure to pay taxes in 2014 and 2015, two years not covered under Mr. Biden\u2019s agreement to plead guilty on the misdemeanor tax charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring those years, Mr. Biden was earning income from work for a Ukraine-based energy company and Chinese clients that Mr. Shapley suggested was being channeled through entities that had a presence in Washington and the Los Angeles area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then, Paragraph 20: \u201cIt is not clear if Mr. Weiss was convinced those strands of the investigation should be prosecuted or was simply making sure all potential charges were pursued thoroughly. But in mid-2022, Mr. Weiss reached out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-muscles-out-chicago-prosecutor-hot-on-the-heels-of-powerful-dems\/\" title=\"Biden Muscles Out Chicago Prosecutor Hot on the Heels of Powerful Dems\">top federal prosecutor<\/a> in Washington, Matthew Graves, to ask his office to pursue charges and was rebuffed, according to Mr. Shapley\u2019s testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we reach glorious Paragraph 21: \u201cA similar request to prosecutors in the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, was also rejected, Mr. Shapley testified. A second former I.R.S. official, who has not been identified, told House Republicans the same story. That episode was confirmed independently to The New York Times by a person with knowledge of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase the inimitable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hzx8KHjQD6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Burgundy<\/a>, I\u2019m not sure how to put this, but that\u2019s kind of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>If one is writing about \u201ccompeting accounts\u201d of the Hunter Biden plea deal and for 20 paragraphs sets it up as Garland, Weiss and the DOJ vs. a single whistleblower, then, in the second half of the 21st paragraph, drops the fact that a second IRS official has told Congress an identical story to Shapley\u2019s under oath and the testimony has been confirmed to The New York Times \u2014 one is not writing about \u201ccompeting accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One is, instead, writing a piece that vindicates the DOJ and Garland by arranging the facts in an order that benefits them, while at the same time deprecating the \u201ccompeting account\u201d that\u2019s at significant variance with what our nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-in-paragraph-21-of-lengthy-report\/\" title=\"NY Times admits Hunter Biden revelation in lengthy report.\">top law enforcement entity<\/a> is telling America about the Hunter Biden deal.<\/p>\n<p>The piece may indeed be factual, but how it presents those facts is both prejudiced and tendentious.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting, too, that Thrush and Schmidt promptly lose this rather important \u201cstrand\u201d after Paragraph 21, instead moving on to question whether \u201cWeiss had the authority to pursue leads that led to jurisdictions other than his own in Delaware\u201d and getting lost in those weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Paragraph 21 <em>is<\/em> the meat of the competing account, however: It\u2019s not just Shapley and those House Republicans who believe him. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jun\/26\/irs-agents-have-hunter-bidens-iphone-whatsapp-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a>, a second agent \u2014 referred to as Mr. X \u2014 testified under oath that Hunter Biden wrote off prostitutes and wild stays at Hollywood\u2019s swanky Chateau Marmont hotel on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-bidens-sugar-brother-revealed-paid-off-2m-taxes-funds-luxury-lifestyle-la-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe deducted a lot for the Chateau Marmont, and he actually was blacklisted and thrown out of the Chateau Marmont. We actually have videos \u2014 or we have photos of the rooms and the destruction that was done to the rooms,\u201d Mr. X said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/2-irs-agents-just-became-hunter-bidens-worst-nightmare-never-seen-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony<\/a> before the House Ways and Means Committee on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned $10,000 that Hunter deducted as a \u201cgolf membership\u201d on his 2018 taxes. That, he said, was for a prostitute. Another $25,000 to a hooker was written off as business expenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve talked to the person that owned that sex club, and they confirmed that he was there,\u201d Mr. X said. \u201cAnd the guy has to pay $10,000, and the girl \u2014 whoever is referring him there doesn\u2019t have to pay anything. So that was deducted on the tax return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome ended up being his girlfriends. So they all kind of morphed and changed,\u201d he added. \u201cSo I want to be accurate in how I represent them. But there were a lot of females that I believe he was having sexual relationships with that I ended up interviewing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times reported that Hunter\u2019s situation was \u201cso bad that his accountants, as if to distance themselves from the factual claims on the forms, made him sign a representation letter, in which he tells his tax preparers that all the income and deductions he is reporting are accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that in my career,\u201d Mr. X said in his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDean Zerbe, a leading IRS whistleblower lawyer who is serving as Mr. X\u2019s attorney and who used to serve as tax counsel for the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said it was striking to have two career agents with years of experience testify to essentially the same pattern of facts,\u201d the Washington Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never had anyone of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-irs-agents-just-became-hunter-bidens-worst-nightmare-ive-never-seen-that-in-my-career\/\" title=\"2 IRS agents are now a major threat to Hunter Biden, with one saying, \"I've never witnessed anything like this in my entire career.\"\">stature coming forward<\/a> from the IRS to speak to us about problems,\u201d said Zerbe, a Capitol Hill veteran. \u201cThat alone sets these guys apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this is all worth just a few words in Paragraph 21 of the New York Times report on the matter. Sure.<\/p>\n<p>One does get the idea that there are indeed \u201ccompeting accounts\u201d of the Hunter Biden plea deal: the media\u2019s, and reality\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The media may obfuscate, cover up, muddle, cheerlead, scold, jumble, cajole and confound for its chosen side. I don\u2019t even need to tell you which side that is.<\/p>\n<p>Reality, however, remains undefeated. And what\u2019s more, reality has a nasty way of sticking around \u2014 the same way reporters <em>don\u2019t<\/em> when the truth they derided becomes too obvious to hide.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say it can\u2019t be successfully interred, mind you. But it\u2019s a difficult thing to bury alive, much as reporters like Thrush and Schmidt may try, and they may very well end up with quite the nasty zombie on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-paragraph-21-lengthy-report\/\">New York Times Makes Huge Hunter Biden Admission in Paragraph 21 of Lengthy Report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The New York Times featured an article titled &#8220;Competing Accounts of Hunter Biden Case&#8221; discussing the son of America&#8217;s 46th president. Written by experienced journalists Glenn Thrush and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt, it provided a well-crafted analysis of the Justice Department&#8217;s involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":1959325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}