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On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he would be appointing a special counsel in the federal investigation of Hunter Biden. The special counsel Garland tapped for the job is David Weiss, the U.S. attorney already heading the investigation. Weiss reportedly asked for special counsel status after an attempted plea bargain in which Biden would plead to tax evasion and gun

David C. Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, was named as the special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. One oddity about Attorney General Merrick B. Garland’s decision to give special counsel status to David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware who has been leading the investigation into President Biden’s son Hunter, is that both Mr. Garland and Mr. Weiss have

After news broke that Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss to be the special counsel in the ongoing Department of Justice’s Hunter Biden probe, former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Shan Wu trashed the decision as a "debacle." Wu argued the move reveals that Garland is paranoid of looking political and slammed the AG for poorly managing the investigating into the

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