{"id":2000038,"date":"2023-08-14T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-mccarthy-rips-sham-hunter-biden-special-counsel-vehicle-for-maintaining-control\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:31:54","slug":"andrew-mccarthy-rips-sham-hunter-biden-special-counsel-vehicle-for-maintaining-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-mccarthy-rips-sham-hunter-biden-special-counsel-vehicle-for-maintaining-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew McCarthy criticizes the Hunter Biden special counsel as a &#8220;sham&#8221; designed to maintain control."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fandrew-mccarthy-rips-sham-hunter-biden-special-counsel-vehicle-for-maintaining-control%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=2000038&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>Former\u200d Federal Prosecutor\u2063 Dismisses Hunter Biden Investigation as a\u2063 &#8220;Sham&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has \u2064labeled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-significance-of-georgia-senate-contests\/\" title=\"Historic Significance of Georgia Senate Contests\">special counsel investigation<\/a>\u200c into \u2062Hunter \u200dBiden as a &#8220;sham.&#8221; McCarthy, known for leading the prosecution of terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, criticized\u200c Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s decision to appoint Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel, stating \u2062that it violated Justice Department \u2062guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a sham. There is no special counsel investigation,\u200d and there is no Biden investigation,&#8221; \u200cMcCarthy declared\u200c during an appearance on Fox News. \u200cHe emphasized that a special counsel should be an independent lawyer brought \u200bin from outside \u200cthe United States government, not someone from within \u200dthe Justice\u2062 Department or \u200cthe government itself.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy \u2063further argued\u200b that the Biden Justice Department is using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garlands-special-counsel-gambit-confirms-hunter-investigation-was-always-shady\/\" title=\"Garland's move confirms shady nature of Hunter investigation.\">special counsel \u2064appointment<\/a> to\u2062 maintain \u2063control over an investigation they are not actively pursuing. He claimed that the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-mccarthy-rips-sham-hunter-biden-special-counsel-vehicle-for-maintaining-control\/\" title=\"Andrew McCarthy criticizes the Hunter Biden special counsel as a \"sham\" designed to maintain control.\">department strategically allowed<\/a> the statute of limitations to run out on certain charges, effectively preventing\u200d any\u200c indictments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andrew \u200cMcCarthy: &#8220;This\u200d is a sham. There\u200b is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/penn-biden-center-foreign-ties-fuel-lawsuit-over-higher-education-transparency\/\" title=\"Lawsuit over transparency in higher education fueled by Penn Biden Center's foreign ties.\">special\u2062 counsel investigation<\/a>,\u200c and there\u2062 is no Biden investigation. This U.S. attorney is being appointed notwithstanding that he\u2064 is a \u200ctop official in\u2063 the Biden Justice Department.&#8221;\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gDsZIUNzWg\">pic.twitter.com\/gDsZIUNzWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris \u2063Plante Show\u200b (@ChrisPlanteShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisPlanteShow\/status\/1690356746265751552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u206412, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Appointment \u200cof Special Counsel Raises Skepticism<\/h3>\n<p>Attorney General Garland&#8217;s announcement\u2062 of David Weiss&#8217; appointment as special counsel has raised skepticism among Republicans who have long called \u200dfor an\u2064 independent \u200dinvestigation into Hunter \u200cBiden. Republicans are concerned that \u2063Weiss, as a \u2064top official in the Biden Justice Department, may be shielded from \u2063testifying to \u200bCongress about \u200dhis investigation.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy \u200bexpressed his concerns on Twitter, stating, &#8220;This action by Biden&#8217;s DOJ cannot be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cant-be-trusted-republicans-call-hunter-biden-special-counsel-appointment-a-coverup\/\" title=\"Republicans slam Hunter Biden special counsel appointment as a 'coverup', deem him 'untrustworthy'.\">obstruct congressional investigations<\/a> or whitewash the Biden family corruption. If Weiss negotiated \u200dthe sweetheart deal that couldn&#8217;t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s defense attorney,\u2064 Abbe Lowell, appeared on CBS News and argued that after a five-year investigation, it is unlikely that Weiss will uncover any new evidence. Lowell questioned any potential\u200c changes to Weiss&#8217; conclusion, stating that it would raise doubts about the integrity of the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorney Abbe\u200c Lowell says while U.S. attorney David Weiss has been appointed special counsel, &#8220;he&#8217;s\u200c the same person he&#8217;s\u2062 been for the last five years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anything changes from his\u2063 conclusion\u2026what infected the process that\u200d was not the facts and the law?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uQANuFDdm2\">pic.twitter.com\/uQANuFDdm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Face The\u200d Nation (@FaceTheNation) \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1690758821000482818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a former federal prosecutor, criticized the appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel, calling it a violation of DOJ guidelines. McCarthy, known for leading the prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center attackers, labeled the investigation into Hunter Biden as a &#8220;sham.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2000039,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2000038","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}