IRS whistleblowers responsible for Hunter Biden investigation respond to president's pardon

President Joe Biden shocked Washington, D.C., the Democratic Party, and the entire nation over the weekend after he announced a sweeping pardon for his convicted criminal son, Hunter Biden.

One of the reasons Hunter Biden was held accountable in one of his cases -- the case related to tax charges -- is due to a few brave IRS whistleblowers who were paramount in helping spark an investigation.

According to the Washington Examiner, the IRS whistleblowers responsible for going public with the information they had about Hunter Biden reacted to the news of his pardon, and they were understandably upset.

IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler torched President Biden for the reasons he listed that ultimately led him to issuing a full pardon for his son.

"No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the President’s son off the hook for multiple felonies. We did our duty, told the truth, and followed the law," the two wrote.

They added, "Anyone reading the President’s excuses now should remember that Hunter Biden admitted to his tax crimes in federal court, that Hunter Biden’s attorneys have targeted us for our lawful whistleblower disclosures, and that we are suing one of those attorneys for smearing us with false accusations."

Shapley and Ziegler also called the situation a "sad day for law abiding taxpayers to witness this special privilege for the powerful."

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The two men, in fact, were targeted by Hunter Biden's lawyers after disclosing information that ultimately led to charges being filed against the president's son.

The Examiner noted:

Shapley and Ziegler were targeted by Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell over information they disclosed about Hunter’s tax information. At the time, Hunter Biden alleged the pair did not partake in protected whistleblower activity by bringing their claims to Congress but rather illegally disclosed his confidential tax information in “non-congressionally sanctioned” media interviews. Shapley and Ziegler said any information they gave in the interviews was already made public by Congress and was no longer confidential.

The two whistleblowers added in their statement, "President Biden has the power to put his thumb on the scales of justice for his son, but at least he had to do it with a pardon explicitly for all the world to see rather than his political appointees doing it secretly behind the scenes. Either way it is a sad day for law abiding taxpayers to witness this special privilege for the powerful."

President Biden was slammed from both sides of the aisle for the surprise pardon after months of vowing to not go that route.

President-elect Donald Trump also weighed in on the pardon.

"Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!" Trump wrote on Sunday.