Who Is the Gay IRS Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Probe?
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Joseph Ziegler, the IRS agent who has been revealed to be the whistleblower in the government’s probe into Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, is a Democrat who once was accused by Republicans to be biased towards Biden.
Ziegler has worked for the IRS since 2010 and before that was an external auditor with Ernst & Young, a firm providing consulting, accounting, and other business services. He testified Wednesday along with Shapley as the Republican-led Oversight Committee sought evidence to back its allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice interfered in the IRS’s investigation of Hunter Biden. Biden is expected to enter into a plea deal on misdemeanor charges of failing to pay income tax and a felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm. He will plead guilty to the tax charges, and the gun charge will be dismissed if he complies with certain conditions, and he will likely avoid jail time. Many Republicans are claiming that as the president’s son, he received favorable treatment.
“People have said, because I’m gay and that I am working as the case agent on this investigation, that I must be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to fit some agenda. This was stuff that was on social media regarding me,” Ziegler said in the deposition, according to a transcript obtained by CNN. “I can tell you that I am none of those things. I’m a career government employee, and I have always strived to not let politics enter my frame of mind when working cases.” He said he was once a conservative but is now a “middle-of-the-road” Democrat.
“I recently discovered that people are saying I must be more credible because I’m a Democrat who happens to be married to a man,” Ziegler said in his opening remarks, as reported by Newsweek. “I’m not more credible than this man sitting next to me [his supervisor, Gary Shapley] 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 standards and procedures.”
