McCarthy threatens to open impeachment inquiry into AG Merrick Garland

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Saturday that an impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Merrick Garland's weaponization of the Department of Justice to favor Hunter Biden may soon materialize.

"We need to get to the facts, and that includes reconciling these clear disparities. U.S. Attorney David Weiss must provide answers to the House Judiciary Committee," McCarthy tweeted Sunday.

"If the whistleblowers' allegations are true, this will be a significant part of a larger impeachment inquiry into Merrick Garland's weaponization of DOJ."

McCarthy was responding to a tweet from Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York highlighting emerging details on IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley's testimony about the Hunter Biden investigation.

IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley Jr., the whistleblower, testified that the U.S. attorney in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation, David Weiss, was denied when he said he wanted to bring charges in D.C., York explained. If that is the case, senior officials in Garland's DOJ may have interfered to make that happen.

Shapley also testified before the Ways and Means Committee that AG Garland denied Weiss when Weiss requested special counsel privileges, as Fox News reported.

Weiss's investigation led to a plea deal for the president's son, which has been widely panned by Republicans as sweetheart deal. The deal involved pleading guilty to two tax charges and a pretrial diversion on a charge related to unlawful possession of a gun.

On reviewing data on 189,000 firearm possession cases by DOJ, former U.S. attorney and Right on Crime executive director Brett Tolman found "not a single diversion. In fact, among all cases prosecuted by DOJ less than 1% were resolved by a diversion," Tolman also said.

AG Garland said Friday that Weiss, the lawyer in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation, had complete authority to make decisions on his own and that he never requested special counsel status, as Axios reported.

In a screenshot of a statement from Shapley's representatives dated June 23, Shapley says Weiss told him and five other witnesses October 7, 2022, that he, Weiss, "did not have authority to charge in other districts and had thus requested special counsel status."

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