Special Counsel David Weiss To Lead Probe Against Hunter Biden In Income Tax Cases

By TN Ashok

Washington, Aug 13: US Attorney David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the on-going probe against Hunter Biden, son of incumbent President Joe Biden, in the case relating to his failure to pay income taxes earlier this year. There is also a charge on his relating to a gun.

The announcement was made by Attorney General Merric Garland Friday. Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to misdemanor charges relating to his failure to pay income taxes earlier this year. Even as the he was standing in court to enter the plea last month, the agreement fell apart over confusion about a separate gun charge.

But a distrustful Republican party has taken exception to the special counsel appointment accusing Weiss of signing on a “sweet deal” with the President’s son and alleged he was appointed special counsel to inhibit congressional investigation into the Biden’s to avoid testifying before congress, CNN reported.

“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a tweet.

“If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel? House Republicans will continue to pursue the facts for the American people.” McCarthy was widely reported by the media as saying.

Rep. James Comer, Republican from Kentucky, the chair of the Oversight Committee. Who is probing the Hunter Biden family business said the appointment was “part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family cover-up.”

In an interview on Fox News, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a republican presidential hopeful, said she doesn’t trust the special counsel appointment for Hunter Biden. They’re “trying to divert attention from all this money conversation about what’s happened with the Biden family” and the actions of the Bidens “smells bad,” she said. Nikki Haley is an indian american whose parents migrated to the USA decades ago from Amritsar.

Haley also pointed to her GOP rival, Donald Trump, saying “you’ve got a former president that’s been charged 73 times; you’ve got now the current president and his family who are in these pay-to-play schemes.””I think it’s all the more reason why we’ve got to have a new generational candidate and a new generation of a president,”