Hunter Biden Special Counsel Tears Into Dad Joe in Final Report
The Justice Department special counsel who led the prosecutions of Hunter Biden on tax and gun-related charges has hit back at President Joe Biden’s criticism of his work.
Special Counsel David Weiss had scathing remarks for the president as he defended the integrity of his cases on Hunter in a final report to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Last year, Hunter pleaded guilty to dodging $1.4 million in taxes and was convicted of lying about his drug addiction on a gun application form, but later got pardoned by his dad.
When Biden announced the pardon, he released a statement calling the prosecutions “selective,” “unfair,” and “infected” by “raw politics.”
Weiss took exception to these comments in his report: “This statement is gratuitous and wrong.”
“Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,” he wrote.
Weiss underscored that the prosecutions were the result of “thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics.”
“Simply put, my decisions were based on the facts and the law and nothing else,” he said.
Weiss accused Biden of “unfairly impugning” the integrity of Justice Department personnel and other public servants “making these difficult decisions in good faith.”
“Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public’s confidence in our criminal justice system,” he argued.
