Flight forward. The pressure of the clamp between Fox and the most ultra-republicans in Congress obtains its fruit.
The Secretary of the Department of Justice, Merrick Garland, announced yesterday the appointment of David Weiss as special prosecutor to investigate Hunter Biden, son of the president of the United States, who is persecuted by a dark past. Drugs, sex and shady businesses in which, according to conservatives, he used at least the name of his father to get a cut. Despite the failure to obtain testimony that points higher, the extremist Republicans accuse without evidence the president of having participated in such goings-on.
The measure of the man chosen by Biden to direct justice in the United States represents an escalation in the investigation of Hunter and underlines that the electoral race for the presidency of 2024 will be under investigation, on both sides. The department already has another special prosecutor investigating the Republican frontrunner for his alleged coup attempt.
Weiss, a prosecutor in Delaware, has already been in charge of the open investigations against Hunter Biden for five years. The work was commissioned by the administration of Donald Trump. His appointment as special prosecutor – which means having much greater investigative power – comes after the agreement he had reached with Biden Jr.'s lawyers to resolve the cases of tax evasion and possession of weapons that weighed on him collapsed. him with a testimonial punishment. Judge Maryellen Noreika, also named in Trump's term, raised numerous questions about that deal.
Everything was left up in the air, derailed after an all-out campaign by the former president and his associates in the Lower House of Congress. Hunter Biden then pleaded not guilty.
Shortly after the irruption of Garland takes place. "Following David Weiss's request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances related to this matter, I have concluded to appoint him as a special prosecutor in the public interest," he remarked in a brief appearance in Washington.
"The appointment reinforces for American citizens the department's commitment to independence and responsibility in particularly sensitive matters," he insisted. And he trusted Weiss to act “urgently in accordance with departmental tradition,” which raised eyebrows at the diligence he has shown.
If the head of US justice has already achieved something, it is unanimity in criticism.
The decision angered both President Joe Biden – although the White House issued a note saying no comment – and Democrats. They have privately been repeatedly complaining that Garland moved too slowly to hold Trump to account for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Republican satisfaction? Not at all. Kevin Mcarthy, president of the Lower House, described this appointment as a subterfuge. “The Biden Justice Department just wants to whitewash the corruption of his family,” he proclaimed.
