![Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy responded to the news of Hunter Biden being given a sweetheart deal Tuesday after he was charged with two misdemeanors and a felony. [Screenshot CNN]](https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=960,height=411,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-20-at-11.57.27-AM-e1687277246495.png "Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy responded to the news of Hunter Biden being given a sweetheart deal Tuesday after he was charged with two misdemeanors and a felony. [Screenshot CNN]")
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy responded Tuesday to news of Hunter Biden receiving a sweetheart deal from the Department of Justice.
Hunter was charged by Trump-appointed attorney David Weiss with illegally possessing a handgun while on drugs in 2018 and with failing to pay federal taxes in 2017 and 2018. The president’s son has agreed to plead guilty to the tax misdemeanors and entered a probation agreement for the gun charge. He is unlikely to serve any jail time. The investigation began in 2018 and focused on Hunter’s overseas business dealings, though it eventually narrowed.
McCarthy criticized the deal, saying that if anything it should “enhance” the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Hunter. Republicans are investigating Hunter for foreign business dealings that allegedly implicate President Joe Biden.
“My first reaction is that it is continues to show the two-tier system in America,” McCarthy told reporters. “If you are the president’s leading political opponent, the DOJ tries to literally put you in jail and give you prison time, but if you are the president’s son, you get a sweetheart deal. Now this does nothing to our investigation, it actually should enhance our investigation because the DOJ should not be able to withhold any information now, because of the pending investigation. They should provide Chairman [James] Comer with any information that he requires.”
“But this is a Trump appointed attorney that was held over, why would you not accept that this is a thorough investigation accepted on the merits given the person who investigated it?” a reporter asked. (RELATED: CNN Analyst Says Hunter Biden Got Himself In Trouble By Writing About Crack Use)
“You believe it was a thorough investigation?” McCarthy shot back.
“I am asking you,” the reporter pressed.
“Do you think it’s equal and fair that a political opponent is going to be given jail time, but a presidential son—? And if you compare this to other individuals in America who have the same accusations against them and same crimes they have been guilty, that they were proposed to have 10 years?” McCarthy shot back.
“You’ve said this will have no impact on the investigations from House Republicans, so what can the American people expect from Republicans going forward?” another reporter asked.
“We need to follow whatever information leads us to … Remember what we have found so far: that the president’s family builds nothing, owns no offices, but we have found out — lo and behold, even though the FBI tried to hold from us — that in a 1023 form that people have said that they had to pay the president’s family money for favors,” McCarthy said.
“We now found later by suspicious activities through banks … that money has come through foreign entities into shell companies moved to other shell companies by the president and paid members of his family all of the way down to grandchildren as well,” the speaker continued. “How many families in America have that? Where you literally build nothing, make no product, and you have no offices, but you make millions of dollars from entities from foreign entities?”