Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers “there will not be interference,” but declined to say whether he has been briefed on the federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware.
Garland was questioned about the federal investigation into Biden by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) at an April 26 Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing.
“As I said during my nomination hearing, the investigation is being run by and supervised by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware. He [David Weiss] is supervising the investigation, and I’m not at liberty to talk about internal DOJ deliberations—but he is in charge of that investigation, and there will not be interference of any political or improper kind,” Garland said, also declining to comment on whether other senior DOJ officials have been briefed.
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