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The appointment of David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation has caused an outcry of objections, including from some of us who have called for such an appointment for years.
Not only did Attorney General Merrick Garland not select someone from outside the Justice Department (as required under the statute), but selected a prosecutor who has been accused by whistleblowers of running a fixed investigation.
Yet, the most glaring problem was the failure of Garland to expand the mandate of the investigation to include the growing corruption scandal involving President Joe Biden. There appears no evidence that Garland will accept as warranting an investigation into corruption allegations involving now $20 million in transfers from a variety of foreign interests, including some with ties to foreign intelligence.
The most glaring problem in naming a special counsel was the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to expand the mandate to include the growing corruption scandal involving President Biden. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
For its part, the media is adopting the same position of willful blindness. Indeed, it now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. They want to see Joe Biden actually accepting money. Like Garland, they will not independently investigate and will not take growing evidence of an elaborate system of accounts used to hide these payments.
WHO IS DAVID WEISS? HUNTER BIDEN PROSECUTOR APPOINTED TO LEAD SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION
Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the media must now recognize that Hunter was selling influence and access. So they have come up with a demand that critics show the very thing that this system of accounts was designed to avoid: direct deposits to Joe Biden.
It is what in literature is called the “impossible task” demand like the Slavic tale of a…
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