Battenfeld: GOP assails Hunter Biden special counsel as attempt to ‘whitewash’ case

The appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Hunter Biden could be yet another move by the Biden administration to keep the scandal from imperiling his presidency. Or it could be a move that signals a new aggressiveness by the Justice Department against Hunter Biden. But putting the same prosecutor, David Weiss, who arranged the much-criticized plea deal for Hunter Biden in charge of the independent probe smacks of an optical political maneuver which will also give Democrats cover to keep charging Donald Trump. Even the liberal New York Times...