Escape forward. The pincer pressure between Fox and the most extreme Republicans in Congress is paying off.
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 haunted by a dark past. Drugs, sex and murky business in which, according to conservatives, he at least used his father's name to profit. Despite the failure to get witnesses who point higher, the extremist Republicans accuse the president without evidence of having participated in the tripijocs.
The move by Biden's top U.S. attorney general is an escalation of the Hunter investigation and underscores how the 2024 presidential race will come under scrutiny on both sides. . The department already has another special prosecutor investigating the Republican leader of the electoral race for the 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 he will have much greater investigative powers – comes after the agreement he had obtained with Biden son's lawyers to resolve tax evasion cases collapsed and possession of weapons that burdened him with a token punishment. Judge Maryellen Noreika, another Trump appointee, raised numerous questions about the pact. Everything was up in the air, derailed after a campaign without quarter by the former president and associates in the Lower House of Congress. Hunter Biden then pleaded not guilty.
Shortly thereafter, Garland's breakthrough occurs. "After the request of David Weiss, as well as the extraordinary circumstances related to this matter, I have concluded to appoint him special prosecutor in the public interest", he remarked in a brief appearance in Washington.
"The appointment reinforces for the citizens of the United States the department's commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters," he insisted. And he trusted Weiss to act "urgently in accordance with the tradition of the department", which caused eyes to open like oranges, seeing the diligence he has shown.
If one thing already got the title of the justice of the United States, it is the unanimity of the critics.
The decision infuriated both President Joe Biden - although the White House issued a note to say no comment - and the Democrats. Privately, they have repeatedly complained that Garland moved too slowly to get Trump to account for the attempt to nullify the 2020 election.
Republican satisfaction? No way. Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Commons, described the appointment as subterfuge. "Biden's Justice Department just wants to whitewash his family's corruption," he proclaimed.
