The slap on the wrist charges first son Hunter Biden received, which will likely keep him out of jail, comes as "no surprise," Georgia GOP Rep. Rich McCormick told Newsmax.
Appearing Tuesday on "American Agenda," McCormick says "that it comes to no surprise to anyone" on the revelation of these charges. "But I can understand the outrage."
The congressman adds, "if we looked at how the FBI has been weaponized in the past, it should come as no surprise."
"Look at how many people have gotten away with things on the left," he continued. "Obama used the FBI to basically go after conservative groups when he was president. I remember Hillary Clinton openly defying subpoenas, destroying information — doing horrible things.
"The reason I remember the year that it happened is because I was in Afghanistan in 2016, reading the newspaper about Hillary getting off of all the things that she did wrong. Meanwhile, a sailor — a Navy sailor — who took a picture of the inside of a submarine — never shared it with anybody, never had any intention — got put in jail — a total double standard. And now this."
Following the news of Hunter's plea deal, several members of the media, mostly on the right, chimed in with their opinions on the revelation; chief among them was former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson. In the debut of his fifth episode on Twitter, Carlson highlighted that what was "most miraculous of all" was how "Hunter Biden somehow escaped a FARA charge," or a charge for not registering as someone representing foreign interests per the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In Hunter Biden's case, it would be his time spent on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
An investigation by House Republicans is currently underway regarding a 2020 informant file that alleges Joe and Hunter Biden each accepted $5 million to serve the interests of Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings, according to the New York Post.
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