{"id":1977957,"date":"2023-07-19T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T00:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-house-democrat-tears-into-republicans-over-ludicrous-hunter-biden-hearing\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T00:56:36","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-house-democrat-tears-into-republicans-over-ludicrous-hunter-biden-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-house-democrat-tears-into-republicans-over-ludicrous-hunter-biden-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat criticizes Republicans for holding a &#8220;ludicrous&#8221; Hunter Biden hearing."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-investigation-house-democrat-tears-into-republicans-over-ludicrous-hunter-biden-hearing%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=1977957&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>Rep. Kweisi Mfume Defends DOJ\u200c and IRS, Slams Hearing \u2064on Hunter Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>During the\u200b House Committee \u200bon Government Oversight and Reform&#8217;s\u2063 hearing, Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD)\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tammy-duckworth-hits-kyrsten-sinema-for-pilot-proposal-blood-on-your-hands\/\" title=\"Duckworth slams Sinema over pilot plan: 'Blood on your hands'\">passionately expressed<\/a> his frustration over the \u2062focus on\u200b the investigation into\u200b Hunter Biden, son\u200c of President \u2063Joe Biden. \u200dMfume defended the\u200c Department of Justice (DOJ),\u200d the\u2062 FBI,\u2064 and\u200c the IRS, emphasizing their crucial\u2063 role in\u200d maintaining democracy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Now,\u2063 here&#8217;s\u200b what\u2063 galls me. I\u2063 don&#8217;t like\u200d these attacks on the \u2064Department of Justice, the FBI,\u200b the\u2062 IRS, as if they are somehow anti-U.S. agencies. Those\u2062 agencies keep this democracy in check.\u200d \u2026 They \u200cprovide \u200bthe \u2062checks, \u200dand\u2064 they provide the balances,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Three Key Takeaways\u200d from \u2064the Explosive IRS Whistleblower \u2062Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>Mfume criticized \u200cthe\u200d hearing as a waste of time, urging \u2062lawmakers to focus on pressing issues affecting the American people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We should be talking about\u200b crime \u2063in America that\u2019s affecting \u2062everybody. \u2064Attacks \u200don women\u2019s health, the economy,\u200d budgetary \u200bissues, public \u200deducation, \u2063housing, the need \u200dfor\u2063 senior citizens to be able\u200b to \u2064pay for prescription drugs, child \u2064poverty, \u200band\u200c mental\u200b health, to name \u200da few.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mfume also\u200c took aim at Republicans who sought to \u200creduce resources for the IRS, sarcastically \u2062highlighting\u200d their contradictory\u200d stance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I love the fact \u200dthat we are \u200dso much in\u2064 love\u200c with the IRS.\u2063 In fact, Speaker\u200d [Kevin] McCarthy \u200csaid,\u2064 when he\u2064 was elected\u2063 on the \u200d15th \u200bvote,\u200b that the first\u2064 bill that he would repeal funding for was the bill that would provide for 87,000 additional IRS \u2062employees. My, don\u2019t we love the IRS? \u2063We\u2019re just \u2064gonna cut their\u2064 budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Maryland congressman drew parallels between former President \u2063Donald\u200d Trump&#8217;s alleged tax\u200b evasion and Hunter Biden&#8217;s \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-amid-tax-troubles-hunter-biden-is-living-in-a-malibu-mansion-with-secret-service-protection\/\" title=\"REPORT: Amid Tax Troubles, Hunter Biden Is Living In A Malibu Mansion With Secret Service Protection\">tax troubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s just\u200c remember, there was a case in \u2064New\u200c York not too long ago where our former president also \u200bgot\u2062 into trouble regarding payments and regarding a \u200cstripper and \u2063was found guilty of a\u200b violation in civil court.\u200d \u2026 But I\u2019m grateful that my\u2063 colleagues on \u2063the other \u2063side of \u200cthe aisle\u200d are\u200d taking, at\u200d least, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weissmann-lashes-out-at-trump-over-manafort-stone-pardons-cooks-up-new-plot-to-prosecute-them-for-perjury-and-obstruction\/\" title=\"Weissmann Lashes Out at Trump Over Manafort, Stone Pardons \u2013 Cooks Up New Plot to Prosecute Them for Perjury and Obstruction\">tax evasion<\/a> very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mfume concluded his remarks by denouncing the hearing as &#8220;ludicrous&#8221; and symbolically tearing \u2063up \u200dhis notes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We \u2063are\u2064 doing\u200c this all over again\u200d for &#8216;The Hunter \u2064Biden Show&#8217; to \u200bsomeone \u2062who has pleaded \u2064guilty \u200dand has taken responsibility for not filing \u2063taxes \u2062for two \u200cyears.\u2064 This is \u200bludicrous. Beam me up, Scotty. There\u2019s no intelligent life \u2064down here. None.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Kweisi Mfume&#8217;s passionate defense\u2062 of the \u200dDOJ and IRS, along \u200dwith his criticism\u200c of \u200bthe hearing, highlights the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-house-democrat-tears-into-republicans-over-ludicrous-hunter-biden-hearing\/\" title=\"House Democrat criticizes Republicans for holding a \"ludicrous\" Hunter Biden hearing.\">ongoing political divide \u200bsurrounding<\/a>\u200c the investigation into\u2064 Hunter\u200b Biden.<\/p>\n<p><a\u2064 href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u200d here<\/a>\u200b to\u200c read\u200d more from The\u2062 Washington \u2063Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) voiced frustration at the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform&#8217;s hearing. IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, accused the Justice Department of hindering an inquiry into Hunter Biden. Mfume expressed his outrage, stating, &#8220;What bothers me is&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977958,"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-1977957","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\/1977957","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=1977957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}