The Republicans need to pick a “special counsel” to investigate Weiss. I’m just surprised Weiss beat out all the Jamaican and Indian Feddie women for the job.
First off, as Andrew McCarthy and others have pointed out, legally, a special counsel should not only be a person with a “reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking” but a person who isn’t working for the administration. As the relevant part of the special counsel law explicitly says: “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”
Then again, whether Weiss’s appointment is legal or not, the entire idea of a special counsel – and I’m no fan, in general — is to conduct an independent investigation when cases are hampered by conflicts of interest. Yet here we are.
Weiss has already slow-walked the investigation to ensure the statute of limitations had lapsed on Hunter’s most egregious tax and FARA charges.
Weiss signed off on a plea deal that would have granted Hunter immunity for charges related to guns, taxes, and who knows what else, ensuring that the president also avoided scrutiny. The unprecedentedly wide-ranging deal was so ridiculous that Judge Maryellen Noreika nixed it.
Weiss’s public contentions regarding his role, in that case, have been contradicted by credible IRS whistleblowers. They testified under oath that the prosecutor told them he asked to be appointed special counsel at least twice and that he sought to bring federal charges against Hunter in California and DC but was turned consistently turned down by Biden’s DOJ.
Each of these incidents should disqualify Weiss from being named special counsel. And yet here we are. Not exactly surprising, I guess, considering the CORRUPT DOJ’s mission seems to be protecting the Bidens.
Trump thought this guy was good enough to appoint him to the bench. I also remember that when trump got a special counsel to investigate him, many said what about hunter? Well they got their wish. He’s being investigated along with trump. Is it that nobody is happy these days all?