Ron Johnson fears Hunter Biden could get plea deal from DOJ and have records sealed from public

Julia Johnson

May 09, 03:51 PM May 09, 03:51 PM

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is concerned that, despite any new findings about accusations against Hunter Biden, the Department of Justice will allow him to engage in a plea agreement and have his case records sealed.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is preparing to unveil new information on the Biden family's business ventures in a press conference on Wednesday. But even with the promise of new information, Johnson is not confident that the DOJ would take criminal activity by Hunter Biden or other family members seriously.

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"The Justice Department will do whatever it can get away with doing in terms of covering up for Hunter Biden or minimizing any charges," the Wisconsin senator told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview.

"I've been concerned about this, almost predicting it, for quite some time that at some point in time, the Justice Department will do some kind of plea agreement with Hunter Biden. Part of that plea agreement would be a seal of all records so that the American public will never know the full extent of what Hunter Biden and possibly Joe Biden did," he said.

According to Johnson, he expects that Hunter Biden could "enter some plea agreement for some minor tax evasion charge or, you know, failure to file or something like that, and then do a plea agreement to seal the records and be done with it."

He then detailed his own experience with "corruption within the FBI, within the Department of Justice, within our intelligence community."

"We have been smeared," he said. "We've been given unsolicited intel briefings and then had those leaked for the purposes of smearing myself and Sen. [Chuck] Grassley. So, I know how these guys operate. I know the corruption."

Johnson explained that he believes most employees within those agencies have integrity and genuinely want to protect the country. However, he added that "there are actors, and unfortunately, I think quite a few actors, that are advocates of the Left, that are part of an effort to make sure that the Left dominates, that conservatives are destroyed, and they'll do just about anything you can to cover up for a Democrat president like President Biden."

The senator made it clear that he didn't enjoy investigating the president's son. He did so because "there was a much larger story. And there are much larger stakes at play here, as opposed to just showing his criminal activity."

"It is the complicity, the compliance, the corruption of a mainstream media that's covering up for the Bidens. There's the complicity, compliance, and corruption of individuals within our federal agencies that are also protecting them," he said.

On Sunday, Comer warned the DOJ not to issue any indictments for Hunter Biden until after the committee's press conference.

"My message to the Department of Justice is very loud and clear: Do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday," he said.

The Republican further touted that "the evidence that the House Oversight Committee will produce with respect to the web of LLCs, with respect to the number of adversarial countries that this family influence-peddled in."

According to him, it isn't just Hunter Biden. It's the "entire Biden family, including the president of the United States."

"So, we believe there are a whole lot of tips that the IRS and the DOJ don't know about because we don't believe they've done a whole lot of digging in this, and we have," he explained.

The press conference will take place at 9 a.m. EDT on Wednesday.

Asked about potential charges from the DOJ against Hunter Biden, the president said, "My son has done nothing wrong" in an interview last week.

"I trust him. I have faith in him. It impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him," Biden added.