{"id":2000927,"date":"2023-08-15T05:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-and-biden-campaign-brace-for-hunter-biden-special-counsel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T05:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:48:39","slug":"white-house-and-biden-campaign-brace-for-hunter-biden-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-and-biden-campaign-brace-for-hunter-biden-special-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"White House and Biden campaign prepare for Hunter Biden special counsel."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwhite-house-and-biden-campaign-brace-for-hunter-biden-special-counsel%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=2000927&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\u2064 General Merrick Garland Promotes David Weiss to Special Counsel, \u2062Keeping Hunter\u200c Biden&#8217;s Legal \u200dProblems Alive<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200c collapse of a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-and-biden-campaign-brace-for-hunter-biden-special-counsel\/\" title=\"White House and Biden campaign prepare for Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a>.&#8221;>criticized plea deal<\/a> between Hunter \u2062Biden and Delaware U.S. \u200cAttorney David\u2063 Weiss \u2062has led to Attorney General Merrick Garland promoting \u200cWeiss \u200dto a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kerry-justifies-secret-iran-nukes-pact-meetings-behind-trumps-back-did-he-just-admit-to-violating-logan-act\/\" title=\"Watch: Kerry defends secret meetings on Iran nukes pact without informing Trump. Did he confess to breaking the Logan Act?\">special\u200b counsel<\/a>. This move\u200d indicates that the younger Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">legal issues<\/a>\u2062 are\u2064 far from \u200bresolved.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the\u2062 White House distancing President Joe Biden from his son&#8217;s case, it is expected to complicate his campaign as House Republicans aim to amplify the issue before next year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<h3>Republicans Criticize Garland&#8217;s\u2064 Decision<\/h3>\n<p>Former Arkansas U.S. \u200cAttorney Bud Cummins,\u2064 like \u200cmany Republicans, strongly disagrees with Garland&#8217;s\u2064 decision. Cummins believes that \u2062special counsels\u2062 should be chosen from &#8220;outside the \u200cgovernment&#8221;\u2062 to avoid conflicts of interest. He dismisses\u2064 the appointment of Weiss\u200b as special\u2064 counsel as &#8220;laughable&#8221; and suggests that it may be a political move \u200cto\u200d benefit \u200bJoe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins also raises \u200bconcerns about Weiss&#8217;s upcoming \u200dcongressional testimony, suggesting that his new role as special counsel\u2062 may\u200c impact the information he provides.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Downplay the Decision<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats, on the other hand, publicly dismiss Garland&#8217;s \u200ddecision. They argue that the reaction from Republicans is \u200cevidence that the move is politically motivated. They believe\u2062 that the appointment of a special counsel will have little impact on Biden&#8217;s reelection prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Henderson, former prosecution chief for Vice President Kamala Harris, downplays the charges against\u2062 Hunter Biden and suggests that Republicans will be disappointed with the outcome of the special counsel&#8217;s\u2064 assignment.<\/p>\n<h3>Hunter Biden&#8217;s Lawyers and the White House Respond<\/h3>\n<p>In a \u200btelevision interview, one of Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers, Abbe\u200c Lowell, emphasizes that it is not inevitable\u2064 for the\u2063 case to be tried in California, Delaware, Washington, D.C.,\u200d or elsewhere. \u200cHe suggests that the charges against \u2062Hunter Biden \u2063are minimal and\u200d that \u200dthe prosecutors and defense were both trying to avoid a\u2064 trial.<\/p>\n<p>White House press\u200c secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterates that Joe\u200c Biden was not involved in business\u2064 with his son and leaves the \u200cdecision of whether Weiss will \u200btestify before Congress\u200b to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the \u200bappointment of\u2063 David \u200dWeiss as special counsel keeps \u2063the\u200d spotlight\u2064 on Hunter Biden&#8217;s\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/randy-quaid-considering-run-for-california-governor\/\" title=\"Randy Quaid Considering Run For California Governor\">legal troubles<\/a>, with Republicans\u200b seeking to exploit the situation for political gain.\u2062 Democrats \u200ddownplay the \u200bdecision, believing it will\u2062 have little impact on Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s decision to appoint Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel following the controversial collapse of Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal indicates that the younger Biden&#8217;s legal issues remain unresolved. While President Joe Biden has distanced himself from his son&#8217;s case, it may still complicate his campaign efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000928,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2000927","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=2000927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}