Posted on 08/20/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT by george76
With prosecutor Weiss also given special counsel powers,
the future of the Hunter Biden probe appears unclear.
Charges have been officially dropped in Delaware as part of
a stated plan to charge the president’s son in another jurisdiction.
That begs the question of why the charges were ever in Delaware
in the first place if they supposedly don’t belong there.
If it feels like Joe Biden ordered the DOJ to do some judge shopping, hoping to draw a less-astute judge to rubber stamp yet another sweetheart plea deal, that’s probably because that’s what appears to be happening.
Glad to hear that Andrew McCarthy is pretending to be a Conservative again.
Maybe National Review Online will add a couple dozen new readers if the rumor spreads?
believe when the time is right Hunter will plead guilty to all charges, be pardoned by Joe who will then pardon himself and then resign laughing at how the country thrives under Cackling Cowmela.
Weiss is and has always been a member in good standing with Biden’s (DNC) Defense Team.
Prove me wrong.
“I thought venue-shopping was not allowed?”
The weird thing about this is defense counsel should be moving to transfer jurisdiction to DC because he will get a sympathetic judge and jury and the prosecutor should be opposing the motion. The prosecutor in this case is acting as Hunter’s defense counsel in that respect and will get absolutely no opposition from the defense counsel to the motion to move by a prosecutor who is carrying water for the defense counsel.
Agree.
I'm shocked I tell you, shocked! /s
AM has been cheering on the “honorable, principled, and law-abiding” DoJ officials for the past seven+ years. If he is criticizing them now there is a “deep-state” reason for it.
If this goes to trial while the Dems still control the executive branch, I predict that the prosecutor will do something stupid to allow Biden to walk on procedural grounds. They don’t want to convict him. They just want to pretend to do so.
Me too......lol.
Cute.
Special Counsel Weiss Investigating Hunter Once Partnered With Brother Beau Biden
Ties w/ Biden family Exacerbates allegations of Weiss’ conflicts of interest
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 20 August 2023
Special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating Hunter Biden, once partnered in 2010 with the late Beau Biden, then the Delaware attorney general.
Beau Biden was Hunter’s older brother and is President Joe Biden’s late son, but the ties between prosecutor and Biden family further adds to the allegations of Weiss’ conflicts of interest in being assigned to look into Hunter Biden’s improprieties, The Washington Post reported.
“We will continue to aggressively pursue all types of fraud in order to protect the public,” Weiss once wrote in a joint statement with Beau Biden on a fraud case.
Weiss might have been appointed by former President Donald Trump’s administration to oversee a Hunter Biden investigation — as Democrats frequently are quick to point out — but Weiss served two years as an acting U.S. attorney under President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and remained a top deputy through their administration, the Post reported.
Weiss has come under scrutiny for his so-called “sweetheart” plea deal with Hunter Biden, which ran out the statute of limitations on some serious tax crimes, recommended a diversion program for a gun possession felony, and potentially gave Hunter Biden immunity to future prosecutions — all in exchange for a guilty plea on two tax misdemeanors.
U.S. Judge Maryellen Noreika snuffed out the plea deal as Hunter Biden’s lawyers suggested in open court they believed it brought future immunity from prosecutions, a claim U.S. prosecutors under Weiss were forced to deny after the public revelation of IRS and FBI whistleblowers.
After that plea deal backfired and myriad whistleblowers alleged the Biden Justice Department has been “slow-walking” if not outright obstructing justice, Weiss was granted special counsel authority by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“Weiss has been compromised,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., once supportive of Weiss’ independence in the investigations, said in a recent TV interview.
A spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Weiss “can’t be trusted.”
Amid the scrutiny, Hunter Biden’s lawyers alleged the government “reneged” on the apparent immunity portion of the plea deal, a claim Weiss has rejected.
None of those involved — Weiss, the White House, or Hunter Biden’s lawyers — has responded to the Post’s requests for comment.
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