In what was obviously meant to be a Friday news dump, AG Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel over the Hunter Biden probe. According to the DOJ, Weiss requested the elevation and will now use it to charge the president’s son in other districts.
That led to a lot of different questions. Was the move meant to get a plea agreement in front of a more friendly judge in Washington, D.C.? That seems incredibly likely given how hard Weiss tried to hand Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal in Delaware. Then there’s the House investigation into the Bidens to consider. Would this make it more difficult to force the production of documents and testimony relating to the now-special counsel?
Those are all very valid concerns, but there’s another angle to consider. Did the appointment of Weiss prove that the IRS whistleblowers were telling the truth? It sure seems like it.
Let’s go to the tape.
“I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution.”
At the time, those were weasel words. Saying “I don’t know how it would possible” to stop Weiss from charging in any district he wanted was a cleverly formulated hedge, meant to leave room for Garland to say he was simply mistaken. But the implication was clear. He wanted the American people to believe that Weiss could charge wherever he wanted and that special counsel status was not needed.
R&I – TP
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