Hunter Biden prosecutor may lack key information, GOP senator warns

Daniel Chaitin

September 12, 06:18 PM September 12, 06:18 PM

The federal prosecutor investigating President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, may not be doing a complete job, a Republican senator said on Monday.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, told Fox Business that he and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) are trying to come out of the dark about whether U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss has all the information he needs to do a thorough job. Stuck outside the majority, lacking subpoena power, Grassley said Republicans have reached out to the Justice Department, as well as Weiss, about their disclosures, including information about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.

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"We just want to know if he has this information. If he doesn’t have his information, he is not doing a complete investigation of Hunter Biden’s activities," he told host Larry Kudlow, noting that "some of it could be criminal." They also touched on whistleblower disclosures to Republicans as Grassley raised concerns about what information Weiss has been able to access.

One whistleblower who reached out to Grassley claimed a top FBI agent, Timothy Thibault, “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting" even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” Grassley's office has also divulged that Thibault relied heavily on a "left-aligned organization" when seeking approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign.

Grassley said there is a loss of public confidence in FBI leadership. To remedy this problem, Grassley said FBI Director Christopher Wray needs to put forward a "concrete program forward in which he says how he is going to take this political bias out of the FBI — so you can have that confidence in the FBI."

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Thibault, who was the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, left the bureau last month. His lawyers said in a statement that Thibault had no involvement in the planning or execution of the recent FBI search for documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and denied that he supervised an investigation into Hunter Biden, noting Wray confirmed on Aug. 4 that it was being handled by the Baltimore Field Office. "In particular, Mr. Thibault was not involved in any decision related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation, and he did not seek to close the investigation," his lawyers said.

Federal prosecutors are weighing charges against Hunter Biden for alleged tax violations and for making a false statement in connection to the purchase of a firearm at a time when he should have been blocked from obtaining such a weapon because of a drug addiction. A report from CNN in July on the latest deliberations said the federal investigation had reached a "critical juncture." The younger Biden has denied wrongdoing.