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| Our number is 800-941 Sean. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program, um, hope everybody liked our town hall. | |
| The people of Cedar Rappers were amazing yesterday. | |
| Were they not the nicest to me? | |
| Couldn't believe it. | |
| I'm very grateful. | |
| It's so different from my regular life, uh, which is New York State, which is horrible, although I don't live in New York City, thank God. | |
| Uh, would not want no part of it. | |
| Uh, I only come in twice a week to do the audience shows, and I race back home. | |
| Can't wait to get out of here. | |
| I don't think I would call it racing, but sure. | |
| It's racing. | |
| It's coming out of New York City. | |
| It's a slow crawl. | |
| Yeah, well, I actually getting home is a little a lot easier than getting in, which is a nightmare. | |
| Uh, but anyway, thank you for being with us, and thanks for the people in Cedar Rapids. | |
| We have we have about 20 more minutes of tape of Trump, and he actually takes um some of the attendees questions and they're really good questions. | |
| I mean, and and I'll give you some insight when we're gonna play that. | |
| Um I'm gonna do something a little different today on the program because I I have so much in me that I want to say, you know, we have this FBI agent, this supervisory agent, you know, telling the committee of the House Oversight Committee, uh basically echoing everything that the IRS had said that the FBI tipped off Team Biden, the Secret Service uh plan to interview Hunter. | |
| Uh he tells the agents, I mean, the special treatment that has been given. | |
| You know, what is at the heart of all of this is whether or not we have equal justice and equal application of our laws. | |
| Now, I just want to remind you. | |
| So, you have the FBI whistleblowers, and there are more of them. | |
| Uh, we had Gary Shapley, who was the first IRS whistleblower, and he went into chapter verse and detail about how the higher-ups protected the Hunter Biden and the investigation and and how even even Weiss's office, the prosecutor in the case, had recommended charges, felony charges against Hunter, but everything was slow walked and everything was stopped. | |
| And then when the FBI tips off the Biden family that oh, they're gonna go after Hunter and they're gonna look at his um what do you call storage facility where where they believe evidence is oh great, and they're gonna have an interview with Hunter. | |
| They get they they got it there. | |
| Anyway, so there were two agents today, um IRS agents. | |
| We heard for the first time from Joe Ziegler. | |
| I'm gonna play his openings. | |
| I'm sorry, did I say Joe? | |
| It's Josh Ziegler. | |
| Um, it was so powerful, so powerful, and then Gary Shapley's was beyond parallel. | |
| I want you to hear them in their own words. | |
| And remember, Democrats love whistleblowers, or at least they do when it's a hearsay whistleblower. | |
| Listen. | |
| Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. | |
| So help you God. | |
| Yes, I do. | |
| I do. | |
| Let the record show that the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. | |
| We appreciate you being here today and look forward to your testimony. | |
| Let me remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements and they will appear in full in the hearing record. | |
| Please press the button on your microphone in front of you so that it's on and the members can hear you. | |
| I recognize Mr. Ziegler to please begin his opening statement. | |
| Thank you, Chairman Colmer, Chairman Smith, Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Raskin, and members of the committee. | |
| Today I I sit here before you, not as a hero or or a victim, but as a whistleblower compelled to disclose the truth. | |
| That said, and coming forward, I believe I'm risking my career, my reputation, and my casework outside of the investigation we are here to discuss. | |
| I ultimately made the decision to come forward after what I believe were multiple attempts at blowing the whistle in the Internal Revenue Service. | |
| At the Internal Revenue Service. | |
| No one should be above the law, regardless of your political affiliation. | |
| I humbly view my role here today as providing the facts as I best understood them and to let Congress and the administration and the public consider those facts and determine the best path forward. | |
| I recognize why I was present at the start of this investigation and was closely involved with the investigation For roughly five years, I'm just a part of the story. | |
| Others, including my colleague and supervisor Gary Shapley, who is here with me today, have their own views and understandings of what took place during this investigation. | |
| I've been an agent with the IRS since 2010. | |
| In 2007, I received my undergraduate degree from Ohio University, my MBA from John Carroll University. | |
| Prior to starting my career at the IRS, I worked at Ernst and Young Ernst and Young as an external auditor. | |
| Throughout my career with the IRS, I have worked a variety of successful criminal tax and money laundering investigations. | |
| In 2018, I transitioned to being a to being a part of the International Tax and Financial Crimes Group out of the Washington, D.C. field office. | |
| I was the lead IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden investigation. | |
| I've recently discovered that people are saying that I must be more credible because I'm a Democrat who happens to be married to a man. | |
| I'm no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my actual due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. | |
| The truth is, my credibility comes today from my job experience with the IRS and my intimate knowledge of the agency's standard and procedures. | |
| I was raised and have always strived to do what is right. | |
| Although I do have my supporters, others have said that I am a traitor to the Democratic Party and that I am causing more division in our society. | |
| I implore you to consider that if you were in my position with the facts as I have stated them, ask yourself if you would be doing the exact same thing. | |
| I hope that I am an example to other LGBTQ people out there who are questioning doing the right thing at the potential cost of themselves and others. | |
| We should always do the right thing, no matter how painful the process might be. | |
| I kind of equate this to the experience and feelings I encountered when coming out. | |
| It was honestly one of the hardest things I ever had to go through. | |
| I contemplated scenarios that would have been highly regrettable, but I did what is right and I'm standing in or I'm sitting here in front of you today. | |
| I've thirst I I would first like to take a minute to thank some people for their unfettered help and support. | |
| First off, God for giving me the strength and courage to get through this process. | |
| My husband, who has been my rock, has put up with me, my stress, and has had to deal with with his personal information being out there. | |
| My attorney Dean Zerby, who has agreed to represent me through this matter pro bono, and someone who has provided me so much help and guidance. | |
| My colleagues from the Hunter Biden investigation. | |
| The work that was done on this case was tremendous, but seems to be overshadowed by what is happening here today. | |
| And I just want to say to the investigative team that I am thankful for having worked with you. | |
| I also want to thank my family and friends back home in Northeast Ohio and Georgia. | |
| I don't live in the D.C. area. | |
| I had to fly here and have had to pay out of pocket for all my travel-related expenses in being a whistleblower. | |
| On that note, I would like to make another statement that I have not accepted a single payment from anyone for being a whistleblower. | |
| First, well, so, Mr. Chairman, while I have my written statement as well as my testimony before the Ways and Means Committee, I would like to touch on briefly seven specific matters. | |
| First, in a recent letter to Congress, Mr. Weiss stated that he had been granted ultimate authority over this matter, but then later stated in the same letter that his charging authority is geographically limited, and that he would need a President Biden appointed U.S. attorney to partner with him in charge in the case. | |
| Mr. Weiss stated that he is he was making all decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution, consistent with federal law, the principles of federal prosecution, and departmental regulations. | |
| In the internal in the criminal tax manual, Chapter 10, found on the DOJ website, tax division policy states that cases involving individuals who fail to file tax returns or pay a tax, but who also commit acts of evasion or obstruction should be charged as felonies to avoid an equitable treatment. | |
| In early August of 2022, Federal prosecutors from the Department of Justice Tax Division drafted a 99-page memorandum. | |
| In so, they were recommending for approval felony and misdemeanor charges for the 2017, 18 and 19 tax years. | |
| That did not happen here, and I am not sure why. | |
| And as to the special aid and as the special agent on this case, I thought the felony charges were well supported. | |
| When considering the elements of felony tax case under the criminal code, there are two key considerations, willfulness and tax due and owing. | |
| In the criminal context, willfulness is defined as voluntary intentional violation of a known legal duty. | |
| The tax loss is the monetary loss to the government. | |
| In 2020, in early 2020, Hunter Biden unfiled or Hunter Biden's unfiled and delinquent tax returns were being prepared, which included his 2018 tax return. | |
| During the 2020 time period, by Hunter Biden's own account, he was sober, newly married, and writing his memoir. | |
| Hunter Biden's accountants requested that he sign a representation letter stating that all the deductions were for business purposes and were being reported appropriately. | |
| Statements Hunter Biden made in his book completely contradicted what he was deducting as business deductions on his 2018 return. | |
| While writing his memoir, Hunter stated, I holed up inside the chateau for the first six weeks and learned how to cook crack. | |
| Hunter Biden allegedly falsely claimed business deductions for SHAT for payments made to the Chateau Marmount, a hotel room for his supposed drug dealer, sex club memberships, falsely referenced on the wire as a golf membership, hotels he was blacklisted from, and a Columbia University tuition payment for his adult daughter. | |
| All of these items were used to support willfulness, the willfulness element for felony tax evasion. | |
| These false deductions claimed by Hunter Biden caused a false return to be prepared, that underreported his total income by approximately 267,000 and a loss to the U.S. Treasury of 106,000. | |
| Second, with respect to the 2014 tax year, Hunter Biden did not report any of the money he earned from Barisma for the 2014 tax year, which would have l which would have been a tax loss to the government of 124,000. | |
| According to my previous testimony, Hunter Biden did not report this income to the IRS or pay tax on the source of income. | |
| There is nothing that I see in the public documents as to the Department of Justice's action against Hunter Biden that indicate that Hunter Biden will be required to pay tax on this barisma income from 2014 or amend his 2014 tax return. | |
| I would like to note that the plea agreement, when released, may provide a great a greater understanding. | |
| Third, I would like to make clear that the charging document for the District of Delaware, Hunter Biden was charged with failure to timely pay his taxes for 2017 and 18 in excess of 100,000 for each tax year. | |
| On Hunter Biden's 2017 and 18 tax returns, Hunter reported taxes owed of of approximately 581,000 and 620,000 respectfully. | |
| This tax amount in 2018 would not have included the alleged additional tax due and owing from the filed false return of 106,000. | |
| Thus, as I read the public documents as the Department of Justice action against Hunter Biden, there is nothing that indicates Hunter Biden will be required to amend his false tax return for 2018. | |
| A false tax return that includes proper deductions, improper deductions for prostitutes, sex clubs, and his child and his adult children's tuition. | |
| Again, perhaps when the plea agreement is released, it may provide us with a greater understanding. | |
| Fourth, the decision to bring felony counts against Hunter Biden was agreed to by both prosecutors and investigators. | |
| In the fall of 2021, I met with prosecutors assigned to the case, and we all agreed and decided which charges we are going to recommend to in the prosecution report, which included felony counts related to 2014 and 18. | |
| In March of 2022, the prosecutors requested discovery from the investigative team and presented the case to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office. | |
| In later meetings in early August of 2022, the assigned prosecutors, all four attorneys, agreed to recommend felony and misdemeanor charges for the 2017, 18, and 19 tax years, insofar as the Department of Justice Tax Division attorney sent an email about the process of bringing charges to include felony and misdemeanor tax charges in two separate districts, Delaware and Los Angeles. | |
| Less than a month later, Gary Shapley and I met with Mr. Weiss. | |
| He stated that he agreed with us regarding the 2014 and 2015 tax year misdemeanor and felony charges, but that this could somehow affect the later year misdemeanor and felony charges that he conveyed were stronger. | |
| Despite these facts, the plea deal that is being dis that is being discussed occurred. | |
| To this day, I do not have a reason why that occurred. | |
| From my perspective, this might not have been problematic had the investigation been handled in the ordinary course. | |
| Fifth, as I had previously testified and is contained in my written testimony, I have outlined for you some instances in which assigned prosecutors did not appear to follow the normal investigative process, slow walk the investigation, and put play put in place unnecessary approvals and roadblocks from effectively and if in and efficiently investigating the case. | |
| A number of times we were not able to follow the facts. | |
| I am happy to respond to questions concerning these instances. | |
| Sixth, I will also note that while the impression has been conveyed by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware that he has similar powers to that of a special counsel in this case, free reign to do as needed, that was not the case. | |
| It appeared to me, based on what I experienced, that the U.S. attorney in Delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung, limited, and marginalized by DOJ officials as well as other U.S. attorneys. | |
| I still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation. | |
| Um to further handle ancillary investigations that are spun off and relate to Hunter Biden, but may not have venue in Delaware. | |
| I would lastly, I would like to conclude again by encouraging Congress and the administration to consider establishing an official channel for federal investigators to pull the emergency court and raise the issue of the appointment or of the appointment of a special counsel for consideration by senior officials. | |
| I do not want my colleagues at the IRS, FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies to go through my frustrating journey to go through my frustrating journey and that of our team. | |
| I believe such a path will strengthen the public's confidence in their institutions and their fair and equal treatment of all Americans under the law. | |
| Thank you, and I look forward to the questions. | |
| That was IRS whistleblower. | |
| I was right the first time Joe Ziegler uh testifying before uh the couple of committees. | |
| Uh, I'm gonna play Gary Shapley's opening remarks as well. | |
| Quick break, right back, we'll continue. | |
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| All right, the powerful opening statement of Gary Shapley, IRS whistleblower. | |
| It's a little differently this first hour. | |
| I I just don't think I can describe well enough the powerful opening statements of these two IRS whistleblowers. | |
| Now remember, there's a total of six. | |
| And and as corroborated by the FBI supervisory whistleblower that we heard from confirming corroborating that the Department of Justice is giving special treatment to the Bidens, in this case, particularly Hunter Biden. | |
| And this is powerful. | |
| And we played for you, Joe Ziegler. | |
| By the way, Democrat himself. | |
| I mean, he was very, very clear and outspoken. | |
| This is not political, it's about the truth. | |
| Uh, Gary Shapley, uh, we had heard and known his identity, but there are four other IRS whistleblowers coming forward, probably more even after that. | |
| People will get courage seeing that that other brave people have come forward and and they get their conscience will probably motivate them to come forward. | |
| Anyway, here is Gary Shapley's opening statement. | |
| I I can't do a justice, which is why I'm playing them in their own words. | |
| Chair now recognizes Mr. Shapley for his update statement. | |
| Thank you for inviting me to testify here today. | |
| I want to thank every member and staffer on both sides of the aisle who work for the work you do to represent your constituents and hold government accountable. | |
| My name is Gary Shapley. | |
| I have worked as a special agent for IRS criminal investigation for 14 years. | |
| I have risen to become a senior leader in the organization and currently supervise twelve elite agents in the International Tax and Financial Crimes Group. | |
| I have worked directly with United States Attorneys in multiple districts and have supervised or investigated cases in more than a dozen United States Attorney's offices across the country. | |
| I have led, planned, or executed undercover operations or search warrants in more than a dozen countries. | |
| I have investigated and managed some of the largest cases in the history of the agency, recovering more than $3.5 billion for the United States taxpayer. | |
| In this country, we believe in the rule of law, and that applies to everyone. | |
| There should not be a two-track justice system depending on who you are and who you're connected to. | |
| Yet in this case, there was. | |
| Based on my experience, I'm here to tell you that the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office and Department of Justice handling the Hunter Biden tax investigation was very different from any other case in my 14 years at the IRS. | |
| At every stage, decisions were made that benefited the subject of this investigation. | |
| For example, prosecutors concealed contents of Hunter Biden's laptop from investigators. | |
| DOJ slow walk steps to include interviews, serving document requests, and executing search warrants. | |
| Warrants that were ready as early as April of 2020, but were delayed until after the November November 2020 election and never pursued. | |
| Investigators were not allowed to follow up on WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden's Apple iCloud backup, where he suggested he was sitting next to his father. | |
| Assistant United States attorney Leslie Wolf cited the optics of executing a search warrant at President Biden's residence as a deciding factor for not allowing it, even though she agreed that probable cause existed. | |
| Prosecutors instructed investigators not to ask about the big guy or dad when conducting interviews. | |
| The Biden transition team was tipped off about interviews the night before the investigation went over. | |
| A fact my FBI counterpart confirmed to this committee in the recent testimony, where the result was that only one witness spoke to investigators that day. | |
| These are just some of the examples of how our investigation was stymied. | |
| I'm not here to support partisan agendas on either side. | |
| I'm here because our tax system relies on the American people having confidence it is administered fairly and equally for everyone, regardless Of your last name or political connections. | |
| If the handling of this case was inappropriate, it doesn't matter whether it happened under a Republican or Democrat administration. | |
| Whether you agree with my concerns about the unethical slow walking and preferential treatment in this case, you can be sure that my testimony is true and correct to the best of my ability. | |
| Unfortunately, the way this has already been handled by some members and the media has done immeasurable damage to future would-be whistleblowers. | |
| I have been attacked as incompetent and falsely accused of being a liar, a leaker, or both. | |
| All by people who know nothing about me or the facts of this case. | |
| Some question if I should even be called a whistleblower, suggesting that my disclosures are not legally protected merely because they don't like what I'm saying. | |
| We've had seen this shoe on the other foot before, and some Republicans have made the same error, so there's plenty of blame for both sides. | |
| The cycle of villainizing or canonizing government employees who report what they believe is wrongdoing has to stop. | |
| When I first started noticing deviations from the normal investigative process around June 2020, I did not run to Congress to air grievances. | |
| Instead, I documented my concerns and made internal protective disclosures to my chain of command. | |
| I tried to give the prosecutors the benefit of the doubt for a very long time. | |
| After our investigation had largely concluded by the end of 2021, the IRS recommended charging Hunter Biden with multiple felonies and several misdemeanors for the tax years of 2014 through 2019. | |
| The Delaware Assistant United States attorneys and tax division trial attorneys supported charging the felonies and misdemeanors listed in Exhibit 2 of my interview transcripts on page 44 and 45, which were officially referred to Department of Justice Tax Division in February of 2022. | |
| This case was presented to the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office in or around March 2022. | |
| In April 2022, in a hearing, Attorney General Garland was asked how the American people could be confident the administration was conducting a serious investigation into the President's own son. | |
| Attorney General Garland responded by saying, Because we put the investigation in the hands of a Trump appointee. | |
| He led Congress to believe the case was insulated from improper political influence because all decisions were being made exclusively by Delaware United States Attorney David Weiss, but that was not true. | |
| The Justice Department allowed the President's political appointees to weigh in on whether they're charged the President's son. | |
| After United States Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves, appointed by President Biden, refused to bring charges in March 2022. | |
| I watched United States Attorney Weiss tell a room full of senior FBI and IRS senior leaders on October 7, 2022, that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. | |
| That was my red line. | |
| I had already seen a pattern of preferential treatment and obstruction. | |
| Now United States Weiss was admitting that what the American people believed based on Attorney General's sworn statement was false. | |
| I can no longer stay silent. | |
| In November of 2022, the statute of limitations was set to expire for the 2014 and 2015 charges in D.C., which included the 2014 felonies for the attempt to evade or defeat tax and fraud or false statement regarding bereasement income earned by Hunter Biden in those years. | |
| The statute of limitations had been extended through a tolling agreement with Hunter Biden's defense counsel, and they were willing to extend it past November 2022. | |
| Weiss allowed those to expire. | |
| Prosecutors presented the 2017, 2018, and 2019 criminal tax charges to the Central District of California around September of 2022, only after President Biden's nominee Martin Estrada was confirmed. | |
| In January of this year, I learned Estrada had declined to bring the charges. | |
| For all intents and purposes, the case was dead, with the exception of one gun charge it could be brought in Delaware. | |
| And yet, when Senator Chuck Grassley asked Attorney General Garland about the case in March 2023, Garland testified, the United States Attorney has been advised he has full authority to make those referrals you're talking about or to bring cases in other districts if he needs to do that. | |
| He has been advised that he shouldn't should get anything he needs. | |
| After the October 7 red line meeting, there was no way to reconcile United States Attorney Weiss's statement, his office's actions with and his office's actions with Attorney General Garland's public testimony. | |
| I am 100% certain of what Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office did in seeking approval From political appointees in D.C. and California. | |
| The New York Times reported that as independently confirmed the charges being presented in decline in California. | |
| Plenty of other witnesses are familiar with these facts, in addition to those who witnessed U.S. Attorney Weiss's private admission. | |
| I encourage them to step forward and tell the truth about what happened and what they heard. | |
| Let me be clear, although these facts contradict Attorney General Garland's testimony and raise serious questions for you to investigate. | |
| I have never claimed to have evidence that Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress. | |
| Whether Attorney General Garland knew his testimony was false is for you and the inspector generals to determine, not me. | |
| The same is true for United States Attorney Weiss's three letters of Congress since June 2023. | |
| It is for others to investigate and determine whether those letters contain knowingly false statements. | |
| However, it's clear that United States Attorney Weiss's story to the American public has evolved. | |
| He's gone from unequivocally echoing Attorney General Garland to just one month later corroborating the disclosures we made about limits on his authority. | |
| Weiss first said he can charge anywhere, and then admitted he's geographically limited. | |
| To go beyond those limits, Weiss later admitted he had to partner or get special authority. | |
| Garland said Weiss has authority. | |
| United States Attorney Weiss said he's been assured he would get authority. | |
| If he never requested or denied special authority from Attorney General Garland, as he told us on October 7, the American public deserves to hear why he allowed 2014 and 2015 DC charges to expire. | |
| No number of carefully worded denials or evolving half-truths can overshadow this stark fact. | |
| United States Attorney Weiss and Attorney General Garland will each be sitting before these committees one day. | |
| They will have to admit that despite all their obfuscation, the absolute fact is that this case was presented to two presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys in D.C. and California, that no charges were brought in those districts tells you everything that you need to know. | |
| I don't claim to be privy to United States Attorney Weiss or Attorney General Garland's communications, but United States Attorney Weiss told us that he was not the deciding person, that he had requested and was denied special authority after D.C. declined charges, and that if California declines, he will have to request special authorities again. | |
| I understood the gravity of those admissions. | |
| Whether full responsibility lies with United States Attorney Weiss or Attorney General Garland is for Congress, the inspector generals, and ultimately the public to decide. | |
| When I decided after October 7th to come forward and began researching whistleblower attorneys, I wanted to abide by the law in every way as I navigated the complex taxpayer privacy and grand jury secrecy statutes. | |
| I carefully followed the whistleblower process to the letter with the advice of counsel at every step. | |
| I am fortunate to be represented by Mark Lytle, a federal prosecutor for 25 years, including five years with the Department of Justice Tax Division. | |
| I am also grateful for Empower Oversight, a nonprofit whistleblower group whose president, Tristan Levitt was previously nominated by President Biden to the Merit Systems Protection Board and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. | |
| While some have tried to paint me with a partisan brush because this charitable organization employs some former staffers to GOP members on Capitol Hill, their expertise developed working for the Patron State and whistleblowers, Senator Chuck Grassley, has been invaluable. | |
| Meanwhile, the Biden family attorneys appear to be representing Hunter Biden, President Biden, and the Department of Justice, and they are not working for free. | |
| It has been reported in public sources that there is a large fund paying for legal fees for Biden family attorneys. | |
| The source of those funds is unknown. | |
| They have virtually unlimited resources to pursue their agenda, while my motives are questioned simply for finding competent representation from a small nonprofit that helps whistleblowers. | |
| Groups such as Empower Oversight and Whistleblower Aid are the only path to ensure whistleblowers like me are heard and receive competent advice. | |
| My intention was not to be your sole source of information, and I implore you to take the necessary steps to obtain as much evidence as possible from as many sources as possible to be able to fully inform your conclusions. | |
| I'm confident that after you have done that, both sides will find serious issues with the Hunter Biden investigation that closely align with my testimony. | |
| No matter your party, I am not your opposition. | |
| I am here with information for you to examine, investigate, and determine whether more action is warranted on your part. | |
| I am on your team, whether we agree on every politically sensitive issue or not. | |
| There is no benefit from me blowing the whistle on this case, absolutely none. | |
| I have no book deal, and the only money that goes into my bank account every two weeks is from my employment for the federal government. | |
| I am still a supervisor leading a group of twelve fantastic agents working complex international investigations. | |
| Unfortunately, to this day, my immediate supervisors are retaliating against me for making protected disclosures. | |
| Even last fall, Biden family attorneys attacked investigators in the pages of the Washington Post and threatened to prosecutors with cur and threatened the prosecutors with career suicide if they brought charges against Pres the President's son. | |
| Then one of the Biden family attorneys sends to the press a 10-page error-filled letter. | |
| It attacked me with innuendo false statements and baseless speculation that had leaked and that I had leaked information to the Washington Washington Post. | |
| These statements by Biden family attorneys are false. | |
| In conclusion, the American people for whom this body works, I implore you to look at the facts, not agenda-laced statements from either side of the aisle. | |
| I am the average American citizen who worries about how I will send my kids to college and if I'll ever have enough money to retire, just like most people watching this today. | |
| I am the first person in my family to go to college. | |
| It was not an Ivy League school. | |
| And I don't have a network of rich and powerful friends to help me weather the storms of retaliation and character assassination. | |
| I am putting myself at risk for the American people who support me and for those who do not. | |
| At the end of the day, I am just a small-town kid from Norwich, New York, who worked hard to get where I am and will never compromise my integrity. | |
| I will never forget who I am, where I come from, or all the people in my life who have made me who I am today. | |
| Thank you all for your time. | |
| Then later on, all things simple man Bill O'Reilly. |