Hunter Biden thought his father’s pardon was the end of his troubles.
But President Trump just made a move that has the Biden family panicking.
And Trump made Hunter Biden’s worst nightmare come true with one devastating appointment.
Whistleblower who exposed Hunter Biden’s tax fraud now runs the IRS
President Donald Trump has appointed Gary Shapley, the IRS whistleblower who exposed the Justice Department’s cover-up of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes, to serve as the acting commissioner of the IRS.
Shapley and fellow IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler were removed from the Hunter Biden investigation in December 2022 after they raised concerns that the Department of Justice was obstructing their investigation and deliberately slow-walking the case.
Despite the attempts to silence them, Shapley and Ziegler bravely came forward and testified to Congress that prosecutors were protecting the Biden family.
The Treasury Department praised Shapley’s qualifications in a statement.
“Gary is a long-tenured civil servant who has dedicated the last 15 years of his professional life to the IRS,” a Treasury spokesperson said. “Gary has proven his honesty and devotion to enforcing the law without fear or favor, even at great cost to his own career.”
“He’ll be a great asset to the IRS as we rethink and reform this crucial organization,” the statement added.
Biden prosecutors shielded the “big guy” from investigation
Shapley testified to Congress that an assistant prosecutor in then-Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office, Lesley Wolf, had deliberately shielded Joe Biden from scrutiny during the Hunter Biden investigation.
The whistleblowers revealed that prosecutors tipped off Hunter Biden’s legal team about a planned search for evidence at a storage unit in Northern Virginia.
Shapley and Ziegler also claimed that prosecutors prevented them from getting full access to files from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, blocked them from interviewing other Biden family members, and vetoed a request for a search warrant for a guest house at Joe Biden’s Delaware home.
Perhaps most damning of all, Shapley testified that Weiss admitted during an October 7, 2022 meeting that he did not have the ultimate authority over what charges to bring against Hunter and where to charge him.
This directly contradicted then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s sworn testimony to Congress claiming that Weiss had full authority over the case.
Hunter Biden’s conviction came too late
Despite the efforts to protect the Biden family, the whistleblowers’ testimony forced prosecutors to finally act.
Months after Shapley and Ziegler came forward, Hunter Biden was charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors in California for failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes.
Hunter ultimately pleaded guilty to all charges in the case last September.
However, justice was never served. Even though Joe Biden repeatedly promised he would not interfere in his son’s legal matters, he issued his son a sweeping pardon just weeks before leaving office.
The pardon covered both Hunter’s tax conviction and a separate felony gun conviction in Delaware, saving the former first son from prison time.
Trump rewards courage with promotion
President Trump’s appointment of Shapley, who was recently promoted to senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, sends a clear message that whistleblowers who expose corruption will be rewarded rather than punished.
Shapley will replace Melanie Krause as acting commissioner of the tax agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report. He’ll serve in the role until former Rep. Billy Long (R-MO), Trump’s pick to permanently lead the agency, is confirmed by the Senate.
Tristan Leavitt, Shapley’s lawyer, celebrated the appointment on social media.
“Congratulations to my friend Gary Shapley on being named Acting Commissioner of the IRS,” Leavitt wrote on X. “Couldn’t think of a single better person, both as a dedicated leader and as a whistleblower who has seen the agency’s weaknesses and had the courage to speak up about them.”
The appointment came on April 15 – Tax Day – a fitting date for a man who upheld the law even when powerful interests tried to stop him.
With Shapley at the helm, the IRS might finally investigate whether Joe Biden was truly “the big guy” who received a percentage of his son’s foreign business deals.
