Hunter Biden’s report, written by former special counsel David Weiss, was released on Monday by the Justice Department.
In August 2023, Attorney General Merrick G. Garland announced that weiss was appointed special counsel. He now has expanded powers in order to continue the investigation.
Weiss, in his report submitted to Garland, stated that he prosecuted the son of President Biden, Hunter Biden in two cases and that Hunter Biden had been convicted in each. Hunter Biden was found guilty of all charges in a tax-evasion case. In the other, he had been convicted by a jury on all counts for felony charges relating to his possession a revolver.
Weiss noted also that President Biden had pardoned “all criminal offenses” his son may have committed in the past eleven years.
Weiss criticized the president’s news release that characterized his son’s prosecution in a “selective” manner, as “unfair” and “contaminated by raw politics.” He called Mr. Biden’s statement “gratuitous” and “wrong” and pointed out that other presidents had pardoned family members, but “none took the opportunity to malign public servants in the Department of Justice solely based on false allegations.”
Weiss wrote that “calling those rulings into doubt and injecting partisanship in the independent administration the law undermines what makes America’s just system fair and equal.” It undermines the public’s confidence in an institution essential to maintaining the rule of law.
The story is developing and will be updated.
