An otherwise innocuous court filing this week is raising new questions about the Secret Service’s denials that its agents intervened in the Hunter Biden gun case.
Days before the 2020 election, The Blaze News reported that Secret Service agents visited StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply, a gun store in Delaware, where Hunter Biden purchased a .38-caliber handgun in October 2018. During that transaction, Hunter allegedly lied about being a drug user on his ATF 4473 form.
“The Biden family was not under Secret Service protection at the time.”
Five months later, Politico Confirmed Blaze News report.
Politico reported, citing a source with “direct knowledge of the story,” that about two weeks after Hunter’s gun deal, Secret Service agents contacted the gun store owner, Ron Parrimare, and asked for paperwork related to the sale.
At the time, the Secret Service denied any involvement in the incident.
More than three years later, special prosecutor David Weiss, who is preparing to indict the eldest son for lying on ATF documents, is filing new documents ahead of Hunter’s trial next month. did.
Included in the document This is an interview with Parimea. FBI agents and federal prosecutors on May 16.
During questioning, Parimere told investigators he recognized Hunter Biden as a “celebrity-type customer” when he entered StarQuest on October 12, 2018. Knowing that Hunter’s father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, was not pro-gun, Parimere believed Biden’s presence in the store would hurt business and wanted to complete the transaction as quickly as possible.
Interestingly, Parimere also revealed that Hunter presented his passport as identification during the transaction, which the FBI investigation noted was “unusual” because “most transactions are completed with a driver’s license.”
But the strangeness didn’t end there.
About two weeks later, both Delaware State Police and the Secret Service visited StarQuest separately on the same day, Oct. 24, 2018, Palimere said.
“Both agencies asked the same questions but did not appear to be aware of each other’s investigations,” the FBI interviews revealed.
Palimere told investigators that he was concerned about the Secret Service’s request for ATF forms, so he approached ATF Special Agent James Reich. Mr. Reisch instructed Palimere that he not submit any documents unless he felt compelled to do so.
Three years later, the ATF seized the documents Palimare had annotated, and he told the FBI he did not contact Hunter Biden to annotate them himself, as would have been standard practice.
Parrimare explained that she didn’t want to contact Hunter for two reasons: first, it would make it clear that she was under investigation, and second, she was scared.
FBI interview documents explain:
At the time, it was a big scandal and the incident got a lot of attention. It was broadcast in prime time on all the news channels, with the USSS saying they had never been inside Starquest. Parimare and other employees heard that Mac Isaac from the computer store was in protective custody. They were all scared to death. Parimare felt he needed to annotate the Form 4473 because he felt he would get in trouble just for running against Biden.
Mr Pariser’s allegations of the involvement of Secret Service agents and visits to his store raise important questions.
What interest did the Secret Service allegedly have in this transaction? And more importantly, why would the agency be interested in Hunter Biden’s firearms dealing records, given that the agency was not providing protection to any members of the Biden family at the time?
Importantly, Palimere told his story with the possibility of criminal penalties in mind. lie to federal investigators It’s a serious crime.
Despite these allegations, the Secret Service reiterates its previous denials.
“Our statement remains unchanged.” Said “We were aware of the allegations at the time but could not find any information to independently corroborate them,” Secret Service public affairs director Anthony Guglielmi said. “The Bidens were not under Secret Service protection at the time.”
Hunter’s trial is scheduled to begin on June 3.
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