There’s simply no rational or legal explanation for Attorney General Merrick Garland naming David Weiss a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. Other than the most obvious one, of course.
While Garland contends he’s “confident” the Delaware federal prosecutor “will carry out his responsibility in an evenhanded and urgent manner and in accordance with the highest traditions of this department,” evidence strongly suggests something corrupt. For one thing, no one genuinely seeking an “evenhanded” inquiry would hand the job to a prosecutor who’s already attempted to shower the target of the investigation with an extraordinarily favorable immunity deal. It defies credulity.
And not only was Weiss ready to bequeath Hunter with a hall pass on the felony gun and tax charges but also blanket immunity on a slew of serious potential offenses, including failure to register as a foreign agent, evasion, bribery, and corruption — and any other entanglements of the Biden family. That fact alone should be disqualifying.
On more than one occasion during the plea agreement hearing, the incredulous judge, Maryellen Noreika, asked the government if they could provide a single precedent in which immunity was offered for “crimes in a different case.” They could not. One imagines that the prosecutor who signed off an unprecedented sweetheart deal rejected out of hand by a court isn’t in an ideal position to lead a case, much less uphold the “the highest traditions” of justice.
Hunter’s immunity deal, one DOJ lawyer explained at the time, was “crafted to suit
