An IRS special agent who claims he’s a Democrat was one of the star witnesses for House Republicans Thursday, alleging that the Justice Department prevented him from considering a full range of charges for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
However, when Joseph Ziegler appeared on CNN a few hours later, he was unable to explain why the former U.S. Attorney who made the charging decisions in the Hunter Biden case said Ziegler wasn’t telling the truth.
Host Jake Tapper asked Ziegler, “So, let me just, give you an opportunity to respond to some of the things that Democrats on Capitol Hill are saying. First of all, they’re saying, why would a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney, David Weiss, lie?”
Ziegler responded:
“I have no idea what his motives or beliefs are. All I can do is present the facts to Congress and it’s for them to determine, and the American people and the administration to make the proper decision on how to move forward.”
“Do you know of criminal charges against Hunter Biden that were not filed that definitively, there’s evidence, proof that they should be filed and he should be facing justice for?” Tapper inquired.
“So, again, meeting with the assigned attorneys, and that included Department of Justice tax attorneys all agreed for felony and misdemeanor tax charges related to 2017, 2018, and 2019,” said Ziegler. “I didn’t see that in the charges document that was filed in Delaware.”
Tapper: “And those charges would have been for what? Undeclared income?”
“It would have been a false declared tax income. 7201, tax evading,” Ziegler asserted, though he neglected to mention that in most tax matters such as the one Hunter Biden pled guilty to, the matter is almost never leads to criminal charges once the taxes have been repaid to the IRS.