{"id":1952861,"date":"2023-06-21T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-merrick-garland-responds-to-question-about-presidents-sons-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:17:13","slug":"hunter-biden-plea-merrick-garland-responds-to-question-about-presidents-sons-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-merrick-garland-responds-to-question-about-presidents-sons-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Garland addresses Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal query."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-plea-merrick-garland-responds-to-question-about-presidents-sons-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Attorney General Merrick Garland Responds to Hunter Biden&#8217;s Plea Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland responded on Wednesday to Hunter Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-official-in-brett-favre-related-fraud-scandal-pleads-guilty\/\" title=\"Former Official in Brett Favre\u2013Related Fraud Scandal Pleads Guilty\">recent plea deal<\/a>, taking steps to distance himself from the ongoing investigation. In a press conference, a reporter questioned Garland about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-merrick-garland-responds-to-question-about-presidents-sons-deal\/\" title=\"Merrick Garland addresses Hunter Biden's plea deal query.\">potential double standard<\/a> in the Department of Justice&#8217;s handling of the case, particularly in light of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/\" title=\"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post\">recent indictment<\/a> of former President Donald Trump on 37 federal charges.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As I said from the moment of my appointment as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a>, I would leave this matter in the hands of the United States attorney for Delaware,&#8221; Garland stated, referring to David Weiss, who was appointed by the Trump administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Garland expressed his confidence in Weiss, emphasizing that he had given him full authority to make the appropriate decisions regarding the case. He then redirected the reporter to seek further information from Weiss himself.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss, who is leading the investigation into Hunter Biden, recently announced that Biden would be pleading guilty to three federal counts. These charges include two tax-related misdemeanors and one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-what-does-ongoing-investigation-mean-after-plea-deal-reached\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden plea: What does 'ongoing investigation' imply post plea deal?\">felony gun possession crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Climate Agenda and Military Realities Clash<\/h3>\n<p>For more details on this story, <a href=\"link-to-article\">click here<\/a> to read the full article from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland distanced himself from Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal, responding to questions about a potential double standard in the Department of Justice&#8217;s investigation. Garland clarified his position, addressing concerns raised by a reporter regarding the indictment of former President Donald Trump on 37 federal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5475,3706,3715,10151,3822,14609,6418,27565],"class_list":["post-1952861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-addresses","tag-bidens","tag-deal","tag-garland","tag-hunter","tag-merrick","tag-plea","tag-query"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}