Hunter Biden prosecutor and U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss will be allowed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, according to a letter from the Department of Justice. 

Weiss’ testimony would come after the announcement of a plea deal where Hunter would plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and admit the facts of a gun charge. If the deal is accepted by a judge, it will likely mean no jail time for the president’s son. Republican lawmakers were quick to decry the deal, saying that it was too lenient on Hunter, prompting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to send a letter requesting Weiss’ testimony before Congress. 

“The Department of Justice (Department) appreciates the Committee on the Judiciary’s (Committee’s) acceptance of our offer for U.S. Attorney Weiss to testify at a public hearing before the Committee. The Department is ready to offer U.S. Attorney Weiss to testify shortly after Congress returns from the August district work period, as described more fully below,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte wrote in a letter to Jordan. 

Potential dates for the testimony included September 27 or 28, and October 18 or 19.

The DOJ added in its letter that it was concerned that there were misunderstandings about its work and wanted Weiss to speak to those concerns. 

“At the same time, we are deeply concerned by any misrepresentations about our work — whether deliberate or arising from misunderstandings — that could unduly harm public confidence in the evenhanded administration of justice, to which we are dedicated,” Uriarte added. 

Weiss has been criticized by IRS whistleblowers, who have contended that he has not been consistent in his handling of his investigation into the president’s son. One, Joseph Ziegler, has disputed several statements made by Weiss, saying that Hunter should face more serious criminal charges. 

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The second whistleblower, IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley, has said that the DOJ and Weiss have been unclear about who has charging authority in the investigation into Hunter. “The story has been changing from the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney Weiss — and the only person that’s really had any documents that have been corroborated are my own,” Shapley said before Congress last week. 

During the two whistleblowers’ testimony, Jordan critiqued Weiss and the DOJ over the apparent change in who had charging power.  

“It looks pretty obvious what happened. It looks pretty obvious,” Jordan said. “Initially everyone was pounding their chest, ‘David Weiss has complete authority.’ Now suddenly he doesn’t. He doesn’t. Because you guys came forward and told the truth.”

Twitter CEO Elon Musk joined the chorus of critics who have ripped into the “Barbie” movie, reacting to the movie’s incessant carping about the “patriarchy.”

The movie has racked up enormous numbers at the box office, taking in $155 million domestically over its debut weekend. But its woke agenda has catalyzed harsh reaction from conservatives, and Musk wasn’t shy about slamming the film.

“It [sic] you take a shot every time Barbie says the word ‘patriarchy’ you will pass out before the movie ends,” Musk declared.

It you take a shot every time Barbie says the word "patriarchy", you will pass out before the movie ends

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2023

Musk has called the woke mind virus “arguably one of the biggest threats to modern civilization.” In 2021, he referenced it in relation to the satirical site The Onion, saying, “It’s just seems to have been in recent years affected by the woke mind virus. That just makes everything less funny. Woke mind virus is a world without humor.”

“Wokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal,” he continued. “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful.”

Musk’s comment about “Barbie” came in the wake of Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro issuing a 43-minute review of the film that engendered a heated reaction from those people who were fans of the movie. “All you need to know about #BarbieTheMovie is that it unironically uses the word ‘patriarchy’ more than ten times,” he noted.

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In a column, Shapiro stated that the film “was a bait-and-switch because the entire movie is a feminist diatribe about the evils of the modern patriarchy. They mainstream that within a bunch of Left-wing social gobbledygook in a movie that is supposed to be sort of a fun romp with a Barbie doll. And when you notice their agenda, they get very upset.”

Director Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote the film, told Vogue that she wrote an abstract poem about Barbie and compared it to the Apostles’ Creed, the affirmation of certain core Christian beliefs.

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“Ken was invented after Barbie to burnish Barbie’s position in our eyes and in the world. That kind of creation myth is the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis,” Gerwig said.

One of the characters in the film gives a speech in which she complains, “It is literally impossible to be a woman. … You have to answer for men’s bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you’re accused of complaining. … never forget that the system is rigged. … I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us.”