(Headline USA) Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said this week that the FBI can’t be trusted to “get to the bottom” of the allegations against Hunter Biden, including allegations that he used his father’s political connections to strike lucrative foreign business deals.
“I have no faith in [FBI Director] Christopher Wray of conducting this investigation, but it’s important that the American public understand the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop in December of 2019,” Johnson told Fox News.
“They certainly saw the evidence of what I think is criminal activity on that laptop. They’ve done nothing,” he said.
“Here we are in the end of July, early August 2022. What have they done with it? No, you can’t trust this Department of Justice, the FBI, to get to the bottom of this.”
Johnson then referred to a whistleblower report from inside the agency that alleged agents buried “verified and verifiable” evidence about Hunter Biden’s wrongdoings.
The public should “thank God” that the whistleblower is speaking out, Johnson said.
“We need a whole lot more of them in the FBI, the Department of Justice, and in our federal health agencies. They need to come forward and start talking to us. I’m not shocked, but it’s outrageous that the FBI would be tipping the scales of justice the way they’re doing,” he said.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed last week that “highly credible” whistleblowers within the Justice Department provided evidence that the DOJ and FBI were dismissing reputable evidence against Hunter Biden as “misinformation.”
“You have an obligation to the country to take these allegations seriously, immediately investigate and take steps to institute fixes to these and other matters before you,” Grassley wrote to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter.
Johnson pointed out that FBI agents already lied to him and Grassley during an Aug. 6, 2020, meeting about their congressional investigation into Hunter Biden. Clearly, the FBI was involved in a “targeted effort to intentionally undermine a congressional investigation,” Johnson alleged.
“The FBI being weaponized against two sitting chairmen of U.S. Senate committees with constitutional oversight responsibilities would be one of the greatest episodes of Executive Branch corruption in American history,” he added.
