{"id":1977027,"date":"2023-07-19T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-times-the-fbi-treated-hunter-biden-more-favorably-than-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T06:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:09:13","slug":"five-times-the-fbi-treated-hunter-biden-more-favorably-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-times-the-fbi-treated-hunter-biden-more-favorably-than-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI favored Hunter Biden over Trump on five occasions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ffive-times-the-fbi-treated-hunter-biden-more-favorably-than-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=1977027&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>IRS\u200c Whistleblowers and Trump&#8217;s \u200dIndictment:\u200b A Tale of\u2063 Two Cases<\/h2>\n<p>As\u2063 the IRS whistleblowers from\u2062 the Hunter Biden \u2063investigation \u200bprepare\u2063 to testify\u200d publicly for\u200d the \u2062first\u2062 time, \u2063former\u2062 President \u2062Donald\u2064 Trump has made a stunning announcement.\u200c He\u2063 expects to \u200bbe indicted in\u200c the Jan.\u200b 6\u200b investigation, marking \u200banother\u2064 twist in these\u2063 explosive political cases.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s claim that he\u2062 received a\u200d target\u2063 letter\u200b from special counsel \u200cJack \u200cSmith, who\u2063 is investigating him on a \u200crange of issues, \u200bhas sent shockwaves through the \u200bpolitical landscape. \u200bIt\u2064 suggests that \u2064Trump may face \u200chis second federal indictment \u2062in\u2062 as many months, just as\u200d Hunter Biden \u2062finalizes \u2062a\u2062 plea deal\u200d for\u2062 misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n<h3>The Divergence in the \u2063Progression\u2063 of the \u2062Cases<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200b simultaneous developments in \u200cboth\u200c cases highlight\u2064 how\u200d differently the Department\u200b of \u2064Justice\u2064 has\u2064 handled each. On one hand, IRS whistleblowers \u2063will appear before\u2062 the House to \u2062lay out\u200b allegations of \u200bfavorable treatment \u200btoward the\u2064 Biden\u2064 family. \u200cOn the \u200dother hand, Hunter\u200c Biden will appear\u200d in court \u200dnext \u200bweek.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take\u2062 a closer look at how differently \u200cthe Justice \u200bDepartment has wielded\u200c its investigative tools in the\u2062 Trump\u2062 and Biden cases.<\/p>\n<h3>Search Warrants<\/h3>\n<p>In August 2022, the FBI executed \u200ca search warrant of \u200bTrump&#8217;s home \u2064at \u2063Mar-a-Lago, \u200csurprising\u200d his legal team. \u2063This raid\u200d came after months of cooperation \u200bbetween\u2062 Trump&#8217;s \u200clawyers and the\u200b Justice Department. The decision\u2064 to conduct a raid was\u2062 met with concerns from a \u200bformer top FBI agent\u200d on \u2064the \u2062case, who\u2062 argued \u200bthat it \u200dwas\u2064 overly aggressive\u2062 given the \u2064level \u2062of cooperation from \u200bTrump&#8217;s legal team.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, \u2062the IRS\u200b whistleblowers detailed instances where \u200dthe \u200dJustice Department shut\u2063 down efforts to obtain search warrants in the \u200bHunter Biden investigation. They testified that the\u200c approval process for search warrants was\u200b intentionally\u200b delayed, with\u200d the investigation \u2062potentially \u2063being \u2064halted \u200cclose \u200dto \u200bElection Day.\u200b The whistleblowers also revealed that a\u2062 top official \u200din the Delaware \u2062U.S. attorney&#8217;s office\u200b shut down efforts \u200cto \u2064obtain \u200da search warrant \u2062for\u2062 President Joe Biden&#8217;s guest house, citing\u200d optics as \u2062a\u2062 driving \u2063factor in the\u200c decision.<\/p>\n<h3>Witness Interviews<\/h3>\n<p>Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s\u200d team\u200d has\u2064 successfully \u200dinterviewed dozens of witnesses\u2062 in \u200cthe \u200dTrump \u200binvestigations.\u2063 The Justice\u2062 Department \u2062has handed \u200cover transcripts of \u200cthese interviews \u2064to \u200cthe court, and more witnesses\u2063 have\u2062 spoken \u2062to the grand jury \u2064about the \u2064Jan. 6 \u200ccase.<\/p>\n<p>However, in \u2062the\u200b Hunter Biden\u200b investigation, \u200cthe \u2062Justice Department sought to limit who \u2062investigators\u200c could interview. The \u2064whistleblowers testified that \u2064their list of\u2062 potential witnesses\u2062 was significantly reduced,\u200d and\u2063 they were\u200b only allowed to\u2063 serve subpoenas without being able to talk \u2063to some \u200cof the witnesses. They also revealed\u200d that senior \u200bFBI officials tipped off Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s transition team, giving\u200b them an opportunity\u2063 to obstruct the approach on the witnesses.<\/p>\n<h3>Attorney-Client Privilege<\/h3>\n<p>The issue \u200cof\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-client-privilege-federal-prosecutors-for-sdny-working-to-seize-rudy-giulianis-emails\/\" title=\"\u201cAttorney-Client Privilege?\u201d \u2013 Federal Prosecutors for SDNY Working to Seize Rudy Giuliani\u2019s Emails\">attorney-client privilege<\/a> \u200cwas \u200chandled very differently in the\u200c Trump \u200band \u2062Hunter Biden cases. \u2062In the\u2064 Trump \u200dcase, prosecutors\u200d successfully\u2062 argued\u200d for the \u200dstripping\u200c of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-times-the-fbi-treated-hunter-biden-more-favorably-than-trump\/\" title=\"FBI favored Hunter Biden over Trump on five occasions.\">attorney-client\u200d privilege\u2064 based<\/a> on \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-court-allow-special-counsel-john-durham-to-see-clinton-campaign-documents\/\" title=\"Will The Court Allow Special Counsel John Durham To See Clinton Campaign Documents?\">crime-fraud exception<\/a>. This \u2064exception \u2062allowed them to scrutinize\u200c Trump&#8217;s \u2063private \u200blegal communications with his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the Hunter Biden investigation, the \u200bJustice Department gave \u200csignificant deference to attorney-client privilege. The whistleblowers testified\u200b that \u2062a broad range of\u2063 communications \u2062were \u2062shielded from the \u2063investigation under the guise of attorney-client privilege. They\u200c also \u200brevealed that the Justice \u200dDepartment did not challenge the use of \u2064a Kovel agreement,\u2063 which \u200bextended attorney-client\u200c privilege \u200bto communications between Hunter \u2062Biden and his associates.<\/p>\n<h3>Lawyer Cooperation<\/h3>\n<p>While\u200b Trump&#8217;s \u200dlawyers were\u200b working\u2063 with the Justice \u2063Department, the\u2064 DOJ proceeded aggressively with the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\">classified documents case<\/a>. The \u200bFBI\u2064 conducted \u2062a raid on\u200c Trump&#8217;s home\u2064 without \u2062giving his lawyers\u200b advanced notice.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the DOJ gave Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal \u200bteam ample opportunity to block\u2062 investigators. They \u2063were \u200beven given the chance \u200dto intercept IRS investigators and prevent witness interviews from taking place. The Justice\u200b Department officials\u2062 ensured that Hunter Biden&#8217;s \u2063lawyers had advanced \u2064notice of any investigative \u200cactions.<\/p>\n<h3>Reputational Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>The \u200cJustice\u200c Department has\u200c insisted that its\u200c actions in \u200bthe\u2062 Trump case \u200dwere solely \u2064to \u2064uphold the principle that no one\u2064 is \u2063above the\u200d law. However,\u2064 in the Hunter \u2062Biden \u200dinvestigation, reputational \u200cconcerns seemed \u2062to guide the \u200bdecisions.\u2064 A top Justice Department official\u200c issued a \u200ccease and\u200c desist order on \u200cinvestigative activities\u2064 due to the \u2063upcoming election, \u200cexpressing concerns\u200d about\u200b the \u2063DOJ&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p>These divergences \u200din the\u200d handling\u2062 of\u200b the Trump and\u2064 Biden\u200d cases raise questions about \u2062the\u200d Justice\u2064 Department&#8217;s\u2064 approach and \u200dthe \u200dpotential political motivations \u2062behind their \u2062actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden probe gear up for their first public testimony, ex-President Donald Trump revealed his anticipation of being indicted in the Jan. 6 investigation. This highlights the contrasting paths of these two high-profile political cases, with Trump asserting receipt of a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977028,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1977027","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}