Special counsel David Weiss, who successfully prosecuted first son Hunter Biden on drug and gun charges, slammed President Biden’s criticism of his investigation as “gratuitous and wrong” in a report on the years-long investigation released Monday.
“Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,” Weiss wrote in the introduction to his report.
“I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law,” added Weiss, who also serves as Delaware US Attorney. “A unanimous jury-who found Mr. Biden guilty of gun charges-and Mr. Biden himself-who pleaded guilty to tax offenses-agreed. As I have done for twenty years, I applied the Principles of Federal Prosecution and determined that prosecution was warranted.”
Joe Biden, 82, signed a sweeping pardon for his only surviving son on Dec. 1, arguing the cases against him had been motivated by “raw politics” and a “miscarriage of justice.”
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