BREAKING | The federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has been granted more independent powers as a special counsel—akin to the autonomous prosecutor Jack Smith who’s investigating former President Trump.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the move at a brief press conference from the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
Weiss told him that the investigation, in his judgment, reached a stage at which he could better continue his work as a special counsel, Garland recalled, citing “extraordinary circumstances.” In recent weeks, he was charged with federal crimes and prosecutors presented him with a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid prison time and drop the gun charges. However,during his court appearance last month, when questions by a federal judge revealed that Biden’s lawyers thought this was all over—while the feds revealed they planned to keep investigating other matters, such as his foreign business deals.
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