{"id":2390044,"date":"2025-01-14T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weiss-slams-biden-after-hunter-escapes-most-serious-charges\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:32:56","slug":"weiss-slams-biden-after-hunter-escapes-most-serious-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weiss-slams-biden-after-hunter-escapes-most-serious-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiss Slams Biden After Hunter Escapes Most Serious Charges"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fweiss-slams-biden-after-hunter-escapes-most-serious-charges%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=2390044&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--><p>Special Counsel David\u200b Weiss has criticized President Joe Biden&#8217;s portrayal of \u2063the criminal prosecutions against\u2062 Hunter Biden \u2063as &#8220;vindictive&#8221; and &#8220;selective.&#8221; This follows Biden&#8217;s decision too pardon his son, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hasnt-ruled-out-pardoning-hunter-biden-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump hasn\u2019t ruled out pardoning Hunter Biden - Washington Examiner\">faced legal issues related<\/a> to gun\u2062 charges and tax offenses.\u2064 Weiss asserted \u2063in his report that the prosecutions were based on impartial \u200binvestigations and not influenced by political motives.He pointed out that a jury unanimously found Hunter guilty of gun crimes, and the legal process was upheld by multiple\u200d judges. Weiss emphasized that justice \u2062applies equally\u200b to all, regardless \u200cof familial\u2063 connections.However, Republican lawmakers have deemed the\u200c report insufficient, claiming that the Biden management would not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-committee-deadlocks-on-becerra-nomination\/\" title=\"Senate Committee Deadlocks on Becerra Nomination\">pursue legal action<\/a> against\u2063 the Biden family.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Special Counsel David Weiss condemned President Joe Biden&rsquo;s attacks on the criminal prosecutions against Hunter Biden as &ldquo;vindictive&rdquo; and &ldquo;selective&rdquo; after the outgoing commander-in-chief pardoned the first son. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,&rdquo; Weiss wrote in the slim 27-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Weiss-January-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;A unanimous jury &mdash; who found Mr. Biden guilty of gun charges &mdash; and Mr. Biden himself &mdash; who pleaded guilty to tax offenses &mdash; agreed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden slammed the prosecutions of his son in December when giving Hunter Biden a sweeping pardon stretching back through 2014. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter&rsquo;s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son &mdash; and that is wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the report published Monday night, however, Weiss, who had initially delivered a lenient plea deal <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/27\/how-a-federal-judge-turned-the-tables-on-hunter-bidens-plea-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck down<\/a> by a federal judge, disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These prosecutions were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics,&rdquo; Weiss said. &ldquo;Eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden had previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-gun-trial-federal-charges-delaware-5dd8a9380235c6360a1ddb691ef24a06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convicted<\/a> of three felony gun crimes by a Delaware jury in June and pled guilty to tax charges in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/19\/hunter-biden-pled-guilty-so-his-corrupt-dad-can-pardon-him-after-the-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prelude to a pardon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Far from selective, these prosecutions were the embodiment of the equal application of justice &mdash; no matter who you are, or what your last name is, you are subject to the same laws as everyone else in the Untied States,&rdquo; Weiss wrote. <\/p>\n<p>But while the special counsel prosecutor admonished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s condemnations of the independent investigations into the first family, Weiss&rsquo; report still drew criticism by Republicans as &ldquo;incomplete.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be clear: the Biden DOJ was never going to prosecute the Biden Crime Family,&rdquo; said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., in an immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-statement-on-special-counsel-david-weiss-report-on-hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. &ldquo;The House Oversight Committee&rsquo;s investigation of the Bidens&rsquo; influence peddling schemes revealed how Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefitted from his family cashing in on the Biden name.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A report from Comer&rsquo;s committee <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/house-report-joe-bidens-obstruction-sale-of-government-power-to-foreign-adversaries-merit-impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> in August accused President Biden of &ldquo;impeachable offenses.&rdquo; House investigators said the president, his family, and their associates capitalized on Joe Biden&rsquo;s occupation of high office to rake in $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014 through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-bidens-corruption-obstruction-merit-impeachment\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Biden&#039;s Corruption, Obstruction Merit Impeachment\">shell corporations designed &#038;ldquo<\/a>;to conceal these payments from scrutiny.&rdquo; The money came primarily from foreign adversaries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Romania, and Panama.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By monetizing the Vice Presidency for his family&rsquo;s benefit, [Joe Biden] abused his office of public trust, placing the welfare of his family ahead of the welfare of the United States,&rdquo; the report said. <\/p>\n<p>Despite evidence that Hunter Biden had likely <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/23\/hunter-biden-almost-certainly-broke-foreign-lobbying-laws-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broken laws<\/a> requiring him to register as a foreign agent, and was possibly a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/29\/federal-investigators-explored-charging-hunter-biden-for-sex-trafficking-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sex trafficker<\/a>, Federalist Senior Contributor Benjamin Weingarten pointed out on X Weiss &ldquo;says nothing&rdquo; about issues related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Weiss says that Hunter Biden&rsquo;s money came from &ldquo;using his last name and connections to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">secure lucrative business opportunities&#038;rdquo<\/a>; from Ukraine, China, etc. for &ldquo;limited work.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>He says nothing about FARA issues though, nor the nexus to his father, who was managing the China and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TeXppVQZHS\">pic.twitter.com\/TeXppVQZHS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhweingarten\/status\/1878973621181268416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Biden made his money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate,&rdquo; Weiss wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden can&rsquo;t be charged, however, after his father extended the pardon for a decade. Weiss ignored some of the most controversial charges from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers anyway, including allegations of DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/irs-whistleblower-docs-show-doj-obstructed-investigation-into-his-son-to-protect-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interference <\/a>with investigations from the tax agency. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weiss criticized Biden&#8217;s remarks on Hunter&#8217;s prosecutions as &#8220;vindictive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2390046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunter-Biden-2-e1736822105454.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,3822,32779,5894,8533],"class_list":["post-2390044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-hunter","tag-legal-issues","tag-politics","tag-weiss"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hunter-Biden-2-e1736822105454.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390044","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390048,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390044\/revisions\/2390048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}