{"id":2006019,"date":"2023-08-19T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-investigating-hunter-biden-changed-his-mind-about-plea-deal-before-it-blew-up-in-court-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:46:40","slug":"special-counsel-investigating-hunter-biden-changed-his-mind-about-plea-deal-before-it-blew-up-in-court-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-investigating-hunter-biden-changed-his-mind-about-plea-deal-before-it-blew-up-in-court-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Counsel Investigating Hunter Biden Changed His Mind About Plea Deal Before It Blew Up In Court: Report"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fspecial-counsel-investigating-hunter-biden-changed-his-mind-about-plea-deal-before-it-blew-up-in-court-report%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=2006019&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>Special Counsel Changes Mind on Plea Deal for Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<p>According to a report, Special Counsel \u200bDavid Weiss \u2063had\u200d a change of heart regarding the plea deal his \u200boffice\u2063 was willing\u200d to offer\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a>. The New York Times \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that\u200d Weiss, initially\u200b open\u200b to forgoing any\u200c prosecution of Hunter\u200d Biden, was close to ending the investigation without requiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-to-pardon-gen-michael-flynn-per-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Per Report\">guilty plea<\/a> on any charges.<\/p>\n<h3>Whistleblower Allegations\u200b Prompt Change<\/h3>\n<p>Weiss&#8217; stance on the matter\u2064 shifted when two IRS agents came forward as whistleblowers, claiming they were\u2062 hindered from further investigating the \u200cBiden case due\u2064 to pressure from\u200c higher-ups at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Weiss demanded that Hunter Biden plead guilty to \u2062two \u2063misdemeanor tax\u200d crimes and enter a deferred\u2063 prosecution\u200b agreement on a gun charge.<\/p>\n<h3>Motivating Factors Behind \u200dWeiss&#8217; Decision<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2062report highlights\u200c several \u2062reasons behind Weiss&#8217; request to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-appoints-special-counsel-in-hunter-biden-probe\/\" title=\"AG Garland names <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> for Hunter Biden investigation.&#8221;>appointed\u200d special counsel<\/a> in the case. \u2062These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-investigating-hunter-biden-changed-his-mind-about-plea-deal-before-it-blew-up-in-court-report\/\" title=\"Special Counsel probing Hunter Biden's case reversed plea deal decision, leading to court debacle: Report.\">include gaining greater\u2062 authority<\/a> to investigate and prosecute, \u2062having increased leverage\u2064 over Hunter Biden \u2062in future negotiations, and the\u200c requirement to produce a report \u200bat the conclusion of the\u2063 investigation to address the\u2063 intense backlash he \u2064has faced from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Backlash\u200b and Accusations<\/p>\n<p>Garland&#8217;s appointment of Weiss as special counsel has\u2063 faced criticism from top Republicans who accuse him of favoring \u200dHunter Biden. Florida\u2064 Governor\u200b Ron DeSantis, a prominent figure in \u2064the 2024 GOP\u200c presidential primaries, \u2064expressed his concerns, stating, &#8220;Just seems to me that they&#8217;re \u200dgoing to find a way to give him some \u2064type\u2062 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/previously-anonymous-irs-whistleblower-will-testify-in-biden-house-investigation\/\" title=\"Formerly unidentified IRS whistleblower to testify in House investigation on Biden.\">soft glove treatment<\/a>&#8230; But we&#8217;ve come to expect that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE\u200b TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also emphasized the need to\u200c pursue investigations into\u200c Hunter Biden&#8217;s alleged corruption, expressing skepticism about the \u2062current arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cruz-slams-garland-over-special-counsel-appointment-in-hunter-biden-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruz Slams Garland Over Special Counsel Appointment \u2062In Hunter Biden Case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel David Weiss changed his mind about the plea deal his office was willing to offer Hunter Biden before the agreement was later blown up in court, according to a report. The New York Times reported that Weiss, before he was appointed as special counsel in the case, was originally willing to \u201cto forgo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2006020,"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-2006019","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\/2006019","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}