Particular Counsel David Weiss defended his dealing with of the Hunter Biden investigation in a closing report capping his multi-year investigation into the president’s son.
Weiss pushed again towards President Biden’s choice to pardon his son as he was going through each tax and gun costs in two totally different states.
“I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law. 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,” Weiss wrote on the prime of the 280-page report.
However he swiftly criticized Biden’s dealing with of Hunter Biden’s November pardon, noting that the president had known as the circumstances “selective,” “unfair,” contaminated by “raw politics” and a “miscarriage of justice.”
“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.
Weiss stated he didn’t bear in mind something apart from the weather wanted to safe a legal conviction.
“I also never considered whether my decisions would be viewed favorably or unfavorably by any politicians. And when politicians expressed opinions about my conduct, I ignored them because they were irrelevant. Simply put, my decisions were based on the facts and the law and nothing else,” he wrote.
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Alex Gangitano contributed.
