U.S. Attorney David Weiss has been appointed as a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, it was announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday.
Weiss, who had been overseeing the Hunter Biden probe, will now take on a broader role encompassing all matters related to the investigation that includes the notorious lifestyle and business dealings of the president’s troubled adult son.
“Beginning in 2019, Mr. Weiss, in his capacity as U.S. Attorney and along with federal law enforcement partners, began investigating allegations of certain criminal conduct by, among others, Robert Hunter Biden. That investigation has been recently referenced in federal criminal proceedings in the District of Delaware. And, as noted in those proceedings and other public statements by Mr. Weiss’ office, that investigation remains ongoing,” said Department of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement.
“On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that in his judgment, his investigation has reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a Special Counsel, and he asked to be so appointed,” Garland said. “Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as Special Counsel.”
Weiss will continue to serve in his current capacity as U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware.
This development came on the heels of an announcement from Weiss’s team that the plea negotiations concerning tax and gun charges against Hunter Biden is at an impasse. That case will likely proceed to trial and is about his failure to pay income taxes and lying on a firearm application form by not disclosing that he is an illegal drug user.
But since then, his former business partner Devon Archer has testified to Congress that Hunter Biden put his father, then Vice President Joe Biden, on the speaker phone about 20 times to converse with executives of the Ukrainian power company Burisma. Also, Joe Biden called in Hunter Biden during business dinners in Paris and Beijing, apparently in order to emphasize how close Hunter is to his father and how much influence he can pull to foreign businesses.
Weiss was originally nominated by then-President Donald Trump in 2017, gained confirmation from the Republican-controlled Senate in 2018. He was retained by the Biden Administration.
in July, Hunter and his father huddled at Camp David as the Biden family came under increased scrutiny from the House Oversight Committee as more and more evidence has poured out about influence peddling by Hunter Biden when he served on boards of both Ukrainian and Chinese companies during the Obama-Biden Administration.
Hunter was an invited guest at a June state dinner for the Indian prime minister at the White House, an event attended by Attorney General Garland.
In July, cocaine was found at the White House in the West Wing around the time Hunter was known to have been there, causing a brief evacuation. That weekend, Hunter left for Camp David with the president. The Secret Service has still not revealed who left the cocaine in the area where Hunter Biden can come and go, and the law enforcement agency for the president says it will not investigate further.
Human Events editor Jack Posobeic wrote, “The appointment of Weiss as a ‘Special Counsel’ allows the Biden DOJ to keep the investigation open indefinitely and stall all House requests for information to coverup the Biden family corruption ring.”
