Special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden

In a surprise announcement on Friday, the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced that he has appointed US attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, as special counsel in the investigation of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son.

Weiss has been overseeing the investigation into the financial and business dealings of Hunter Biden.

Garland said that Weiss had told him earlier this week that his investigation had “reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed”.

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As special counsel, Weiss will be permitted to “continue his investigation, take any investigative steps he wanted and make the decision whether to prosecute in any district”, Garland added.

  Guardian

Will this satisfy the Republicans? You know the answer to that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 08/12/2023:

“David Weiss was picked by the two Democrat Senators from Delaware under ‘Blue Slip,’” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “He would not have been picked by me.”

Weiss was nominated by the former president in 2017 and confirmed by a unanimous Senate vote in early 2018.

  The Hill

Jesus Christ. He WAS picked by you.

This is, after all, the same Weiss who headed an investigation that was trashed by whistleblowers, who alleged that his investigation had been fixed from the outset.

It is the same Weiss who ran an investigation in which agents were allegedly prevented from asking about Joe Biden, obstructed in their efforts to pursue questions and compromised by tip offs to the Biden team on planned searches.

It was also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it.

It was the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

It was the same Weiss who inked a widely panned “sweetheart” deal that caused a federal judge to balk and trash a sweeping immunity grant — language that even the prosecutor admitted he had never previously seen in a plea deal.

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The Weiss appointment definitively established Garland as a failure as attorney general. As someone who initially praised Garland’s appointment, I now see that he has repeatedly shown he lacks the strength and leadership to rise to these moments.

  The Hill

I have to agree about Garland. He should have been Supreme Court judge. He would have been much better suited to that. Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell got in the way of that.

UPDATE 08/12/2023 01:16 pm:

Regarding the confusion now running through social media about the legality of appointing Weiss...

UPDATE 08/15/2023: