Hunter Biden almost got off scot-free — but everything changed when the IRS whistleblowers broke their silence: Report

Special counsel David Weiss was prepared to end the Hunter Biden investigation without prosecuting the first son, according to a new report. But everything changed when two brave IRS whistleblowers began speaking out.

The New York Times reported over the weekend that earlier this year, Weiss "appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. [Hunter] Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges." The newspaper based that conclusion on more than 200 pages of correspondence between Weiss' office, Hunter Biden's lawyers, and interviews with people close to the negotiations.

But when two IRS whistleblowers went public this spring, alleging Weiss had been hamstrung by a politically motivated Justice Department, Weiss "suddenly demanded" that Hunter Biden be prosecuted, according to the Times.

What's more, both sides — Hunter Biden's attorneys and the IRS whistleblowers — agreed the whistleblowers altered the trajectory of Weiss' investigation. And Hunter Biden's lawyers want the whistleblowers to face criminal prosecution for speaking out.

From the Times:

Now, the IRS agents and their Republican allies say they believe the evidence they brought forward, at the precise time they did, played a role in influencing the outcome, a claim senior law enforcement officials dispute. While Mr. Biden’s legal team agrees that the IRS agents affected the deal, his lawyers have contended to the Justice Department that by disclosing details about the investigation to Congress, they broke the law and should be prosecuted.

"It appears that if it weren’t for the courageous actions of these whistle-blowers, who had nothing to gain and everything to lose, Hunter Biden would never have been charged at all," attorneys for one of the IRS agents told the Times.

The other significant revelation from the New York Times is that Hunter Biden's now-former lead attorney, Chris Clark, drafted the controversial — and, in the eyes of U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, possibly unconstitutional — pretrial diversion agreement that would have allowed Biden to avoid prosecution for a felony gun charge.

Documents reviewed by Politico and the New York Times painted a similar picture: Hunter Biden's attorneys pressured the Justice Department not to prosecute their client because his father is President Joe Biden, one of the most powerful men on Earth. Clark even allegedly warned prosecutors that prosecuting Hunter Biden would be "career suicide."

Additionally, Hunter Biden's attorneys threatened that if their client went to trial, they would call the president to be a witness for the defense, which Clark said would result in a "constitutional crisis."

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