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A third IRS agent reportedly told House investigators last week that President Joe Biden's Justice Department blocked now-special counsel David Weiss from charging Hunter Biden, seemingly contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland's assertion that Weiss had complete authority to charge the president's son.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Forwarded this email? [Subscribe here]() for more [BREAKING: Third IRS Agent Comes Forward... /Leaked Veterans Affairs Training Video Promotes... / Democrat Bob Menendez Charged with...]( [PatriotNewsToday]( Sep 23 ∙ Preview   [READ IN APP](   A third IRS agent reportedly told House investigators last week that President Joe Biden's Justice Department blocked now-special counsel David Weiss from charging Hunter Biden, seemingly contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland's assertion that Weiss had complete authority to charge the president's son. "He was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own," Garland said in June of now-special counsel David Weiss. Weiss investigated Hunter Biden for five years for tax, gun, and Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations. The probe came to a head when IRS whistleblowers alleged in April that two Biden administration political appointees within the DOJ worked to block charges against Hunter Biden for tax violations against recommendations. IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf told the House Ways and Means Committee on September 12 that the DOJ's tax division opposed charging Hunter Biden during a June 2022 meeting with IRS officials and Weiss. "DOJ Tax would have to authorize charges prior to David Weiss recommending an indictment or prosecution," Batdorf said in a transcribed interview, the Washington Examiner reported. "So, I mean, my understanding is that, I mean, he can't make that decision without DOJ Tax authorization," Batdorf, who was IRS agent whistleblower Gary Shapley's senior in the IRS chain of command, said. Notes from Shapley show he quoted Weiss as saying he was "not the deciding person" on charging Hunter Biden with tax, gun, and FARA violations. Shapley's subordinate, Joseph Ziegler, the second IRS whistleblower, supports Shapley's allegation. The claim is also backed by Shapley's boss, Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon, who confirmed Weiss did not have the authority to charge Hunter Biden. In two letters to Congress, Weiss contradicted himself about whether he was the deciding authority to charge Hunter Biden. Weiss ultimately reversed his position to agree with Garland, as both claimed Weiss was the sole authority to charge Hunter Biden. Batdorf also told investigators he believed his team was frustrated that Weiss found opposition to prosecuting Hunter Biden. "I was frustrated," he said. "[Weiss] was probably a little frustrated ... because he now had to make some decisions on what he was going to do." In addition, Batdorf confirmed that Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf was taken off the case in May or June, the Examiner reported. According to the New York Times, Hunter Biden's lawyers worked with Wolf to draft the sweetheart plea deal that collapsed under judicial scrutiny. Shapley and Ziegler claim Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being "the big guy." Wolf also allegedly cautioned the investigation team not to search Joe Biden's guest house in Delaware for evidence against Hunter Biden because of "optics." Leaked Veterans Affairs Training Video Promotes… A training video allegedly leaked from the Department of Veterans Affairs promotes abortion and even suggests that men can become pregnant, Fox News reported Wednesday. The "Reproductive Health Training" video from April 2023 tells staffers how to talk to veterans who are considering aborting their babies. "Before discussing counseling procedures, the video began with a 'note' on language that clarified, 'Not all people who seek abortions identify as women.' Another note read, 'Person who is pregnant' is inclusive and preferred to 'pregnant woman,'" according to the report. Another slide tells staffers to use certain language about abortion, like "embryo or fetus" instead of "baby or unborn child," "veteran or person" instead of "mother," and "embryonic or fetal cardiac activity" instead of "fetal heartbeat." Several videos, first obtained by the Post Millennial, show the department pitching abortion as "essential, life-saving care" that is safer than pregnancy. The video also cites dubious studies claiming women rarely feel regret for having an abortion: The caregiver is presented with statements that, when examined, originate from the same echo chamber of pro-abortion ideology, masked as academic and medically accredited sources. Care providers are instructed to stress the fact that abortion absolutely does not pose a hazard to a patient's mental health and that the most common emotion after having an abortion is relief. The leak comes more than a year after the department announced it would begin providing abortions for veterans and their dependents through its taxpayer-funded health care system, according to Fox News. "This would include states where abortions are restricted or outlawed," the report states. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) did not respond to the outlet's request for comment. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser slammed the VA for training its staff "with radical pro-abortion ideology": Americans will be shocked to learn that, not only is the VA performing abortions at hospitals across the county, but they are promoting and training their staff with radical pro-abortion ideology, counseling women veterans into having abortions. Most Americans don't want their taxpayer dollars funding abortions, especially in direct violation of the law. Senator [Tommy] Tuberville and Rep. Michael Cloud should be applauded for exposing that the VA has opened the door to abortion on demand and for leading Congressional efforts to stop this illegal agenda. Right now, the VA is instructing its staff to completely sidestep state pro-life laws and provide abortions. We must continue to expose and stop this illegal extremism. At a time when our veterans need our greatest support, why is the VA prioritizing forced ideology over the needs of our ill, injured, and wounded veterans? Tuberville, in addition to rallying with Cloud against the VA's abortion policy, has blocked hundreds of military appointments in response to the Pentagon's policy providing abortions to service members. CatholicVote President Brian Burch also slammed the VA in a statement via email for propping up a "radical pro-abortion agenda." "The Biden Administration's Department of Veterans Affairs has shamelessly weaponized the U.S. military to advance a radical pro-abortion agenda that has no place infecting our defense agencies. CatholicVote has spent the past several months demanding that the VA stop holding military appointments hostage with its illegal, unconstitutional policy to fund abortion and abortion-related expenses for service members and their families while expressing concern over the agency's increasingly overt political bias," Burch said. "[O]ur worst fears were confirmed by the VA's outrageous training video that unapologetically encourages and glorifies abortion, implies pregnancy is a dangerous medical condition, and suggests that abortion is always safer than childbirth," he continued. "The video is an insult to women everywhere, not only because it utterly denies biology in claiming men can get pregnant, but also because it adds insult to injury in claiming pregnancy is nothing to be celebrated or congratulated." "Such outrageous and offensive pro-abortion propaganda coming from a government agency tasked with protecting American lives is a deeply disturbing sign of the times imposed by this radical administration," Burch concluded. Please consider subscribing to support our service for a small monthly fee. You will be able to read all the latest breaking stories like… Democrat Bob Menendez Charged with... Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to PatriotNewsToday to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. 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