Republicans slammed Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation Friday, saying the move would “stonewall”…
in the Hunter Biden investigation Friday, saying the move would “stonewall” ongoing congressional probes.
“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy affirmed on X, formerly known as Twitter. “No, your honor,” Wise said, later adding that further charges such as failure to register as a foreign agent were possible as part of an “ongoing” investigation.“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy affirmed on X., federal prosecutors asked for the Delaware case to be dismissed so that charges could be brought in another district, likely Washington DC or Southern California.
Elsewhere in Iowa, 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told an audience in the small town of Audobon that if Hunter Biden was a Republican, “he’d be in jail right now, and we all know that.” “They saw where the Justice Department was delaying the investigation so much that the statute of limitations expired for the crimes of 2014 and 2015; where they divulged information to Hunter Biden’s lawyers to give them a heads up of search warrants that they were going to do the next day,” Smith told FNC’s “America’s Newsroom.”
“The president then came out with a statement saying that he wasn’t involved with his son’s business dealings,” he said. “The only thing that has changed over the last several months, our comments from the Biden family, our IRS whistleblowers have been consistent, and they’re the ones that were brave to come forward to release all this information.”
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