Posted on 09/20/2022 1:56:10 AM PDT by Libloather
More than 30 Senate Republicans asked Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to give the federal prosecutor who has been investigating Hunter Biden for several years “special counsel protections and authorities.”
The group, which includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, wrote in a letter to Garland that the move is warranted because the criminal investigation involves President Joe Biden’s son. They also contended it would “avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Giving U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss special counsel authority would also “provide additional assurances to the American people that the Hunter Biden investigation is free from political influence,” the letter argued.
If Garland honors the request, it could give Republicans and Democrats in Congress insight into the grounds for any future decision by Weiss on whether to prosecute Hunter Biden. Lawmakers might not otherwise get that justification if Weiss is not granted special counsel status.
Giving Weiss that status also would force Garland to explain to Congress any disagreement he had with an action proposed by Weiss during the probe, up to and including a recommendation that Hunter Biden be charged.
Former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have for years cited Biden’s son and his business dealings in attacks against the president.
Hunter Biden disclosed the existence of the criminal probe in late 2020, shortly after his father was elected president. He said that he had been informed that Weiss was looking into his “tax affairs.”
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McConnell is a personal friend of Biden, so if he is behind it...it’s doomed to fail, and all prosecution info will be passed directly to Hunter’s lawyers.
He Won't. It would totally destroy the #ComDem's in November.
Funny, I didn’t see the word “alleged” anywhere in the first 6 paragraphs?
Oh Yes. Let’s put it under special counsel just as the Dem’s may lose Senate and House. Then we can be certain we can’t talk about an open investigation for 2-4y.
Republicans. Spit.
You said: “Republicans. Spit.”
What are you? One of the #ComDem’s?
Biden will fire Weiss and replace him and sonofabitch, the investigation will end
[If Garland honors the request]
That’s gold, Jerry! GOLD!!
Yeah. Okay. They’ll stop looking once Nanzi Pelosi looks at them cross-eyed.
Whitaker would be great.
Who would even take the job? If they went after any member of The Washington mafia they would be destroyed. It would just be another phony Durham type investigation. Of course, any “hearings” would be phony too.
The fact that it's been 2 years and there is not even a hint of prosecution tells me that the "investigation" very much does have political influence.
I am a former Assistance and Investigations IG NCOIC. I can do from scratch.
Check
The contract should have a big bonus if they can get Hunter and Joe indicted inside a month.
YOU PUBBIES BETTER SMARTEN UP! SLOW is the ONLY SPEED you know!
Thanks
Well son of a bitch joe will squash that
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