3. Ziegler provided supporting documents for his previous testimony that Hunter Biden falsely characterized his income from corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma as a loan to evade income tax.
Ziegler explains it was willful b/c he was told. Still didn't amend return or pay.
Delegate the triggering contempt vote down to the committee level to fast track and simplify the process of imposing actual consequences on witnesses who defy your subpoenas.
2🧵 @tristanleavitt and I personally led congressional probes related to ongoing law enforcement matters and obtained info on pending criminal matters.
@tristanleavitt 3🧵 @TheJusticeDept doesn’t even take its own rhetoric seriously—leaking to friendly press when it wants while pretending it must stiff-arm Congress.
2/ IRS SSA Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden case agent Joe Ziegler made protected disclosures to Congress. Congress voted to release them to the public and filed copies with the court considering the Hunter Biden plea.
3/ Biden family attorneys threw a hissy fit, hurling broad, vague, and false accusations of criminal activity by the whistleblowers—w/o pointing to a single example.
They even got the filing pulled from the docket by falsely claiming it contained SSNs, bank acct numbers, etc.