Special counsel David Weiss defended his two criminal prosecutions of Hunter Biden in a special counsel report released Monday and accused President Joe Biden of making “baseless accusations” about Weiss’s work.
Weiss said in the report, made public by Attorney General Merrick Garland, that he “remained impervious to political influence at all times” during his past 17 months as special counsel.
“However, Mr. [Hunter] Biden and his counsel have continuously accused me of vindictively and selectively prosecuting him,” Weiss wrote. “And in the press release accompanying his son’s pardon, President Biden echoed these claims, stating that he believed Mr. Biden was ‘selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.’ These baseless accusations have no merit and repeating them threatens the integrity of the justice system as a whole.”
Weiss began investigating…
