Mayorkas subpoenaed over alleged Hunter Biden ‘cover-up’

House GOP leaders subpoenaed Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials Tuesday over allegations President Biden’s aides were tipped off about plans to interview first son Hunter.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) targeted the Homeland honcho seeking documents about the probe into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax-dodging and weapons antics, as well as subpoenaed three Department of Homeland Security and two Secret Service officials to testify.

“The Department of Justice initiated the Biden family cover-up and now DHS under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas is complicit in it,” Comer said in a statement.

“Investigators were never able to interview Hunter Biden during the criminal investigation because Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview,” the leading Republican said.

Underpinning Comer’s scathing accusations is IRS whistleblower testimony from agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who appeared publicly before the panel in June.

“December 7th, 2020, I was informed that FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters and the [Biden] transition team about the planned actions the following day,” Shapley testified to the Ways and Means Committee on May 26.

“This essentially tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group an opportunity to obstruct the approach on the witnesses,” Shapley said.

Hunter allegedly dodged paying $1.2 million in federal income taxes several years ago and had an illegal gun while addicted to drugs.

FBI and IRS investigators wanted to interview him Dec. 8, 2020, without advance notice but ultimately, after the tip off, the interview never happened, according to Shapley.

Shapley’s testimony was corroborated by an FBI whistleblower.

Comer’s document demand targeting Mayorkas is calling for communications about the Hunter Biden probe by members of his department or former members between Dec. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020.

Additionally, he is seeking material pertaining to a June 29, 2023, letter he sent demanding interviews with members of the Secret Service about the Hunter Biden probe. He said his panel did not receive “an adequate response” on time.

The Secret Service is housed under the DHS, which is why Comer is directing some of the subpoenas at the department.

Ultimately, the Hunter Biden probe culminated in a prospective plea agreement. Under the deal, Hunter would plead guilty to two misdemeanors for willful failure to pay federal income taxes and a pretrial diversion agreement over a felony charge for illegal possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.

But that agreement imploded in federal Delaware court July 26.

US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, tore apart the agreement by raising constitutional concerns and exposing daylight between Hunter Biden’s defense team and federal prosecutors over the extent of his immunity.

As a result, Hunter entered a not guilty plea. Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who led the probe, was elevated to special counsel status last month.

This means that he can charge the younger Biden for crimes outside his jurisdiction.

Last month, Hunter Biden’s defense lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who has helped him navigate the onslaught of congressional probes, took the lead in his defense against the federal investigation.

Comer has separately long been spearheading the House Republicans’ deep dive into the Biden family’s overseas business dealings.

This includes the IRS whistleblower testimony alleging an array of irregularities in the five-year investigation of the first son.

The White House has rebuked Comer over the spate of inquiries.

“The James Comer playbook is simple,” White House spokesman Ian Sams tweeted in June. “Make sweeping claims and promise bombshells to try to get media attention, then fail to deliver the goods.

“Don’t fall for it. His repeated pattern of laundering thin innuendo without evidence has cost him his credibility.”

Biden maintains he has never spoken to his son about Hunter’s lucrative business endeavors overseas.