By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-13 23:40:21 | Updated at 2025-01-14 14:20:42
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Special Counsel David Weiss suggests that other charges against Hunter Biden may have been warranted in a new bombshell report transmitted to Congress by the Department of Justice on Monday.
Weiss, after a six-year case looking at President Joe Biden's 54-year-old son, said it is 'inappropriate to discuss whether additional charges are warranted' since Hunter is now pardoned.
Biden issued the pardon last month after promising for months that he would not use the presidential power for the benefit of his son.
'[B]efore Mr. Biden could be sentenced in either case, President Biden pardoned his son for all criminal offenses he committed or may have committed over the last eleven years,' the special counsel writes in the 280-page report reviewed by DailyMail.com.
Weiss adds: 'In light of this pardon, I cannot make any additional charging decisions as to Mr. Biden's conduct during those eleven years.'
He also pushed back in his report on President Biden's claim he was carrying out a politicized investigation against his son.
'Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public's confidence in our criminal justice system,' Weiss laments.
'The President's characterizations are incorrect based on the facts in this case, and, on a more fundamental level, they are wrong,' he adds.
Special Counsel David Weiss transmitted a new report to Congress that tore into President Joe Biden for claiming his investigation and convictions against Hunter Biden were politically motivated
President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, 54, last month – leading Weiss to say that discussing the potential of additional charges against him is now 'inappropriate'
While the report is lengthy, the new information from Weiss makes up about 27 pages. The rest consisted of appendices that, among other documents, include previous filings.
Hunter was ultimately convicted in both cases Weiss investigated.
'In one case, Mr. Biden pleaded guilty to all counts, and in the other, a jury found him guilty of all counts,' he noted in the report to Congress.
Hunter was found guilty of three felony firearm offenses stemming from Weiss' investigation into a 2018 gun purchase where the president's son lied about his drug use.
He was also charged with federal crimes regarding the failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. Ahead of this trial, the first son entered a guilty plea.
The special counsel insists he 'remained impervious to political influence at all times' during the duration of the investigation.
'However, Mr. Biden and his counsel have continuously accused me of vindictively and selectively prosecuting him,' Weiss writes. 'And in the press release accompanying his son's pardon, President Biden echoed these claims, stating that he believed Mr. Biden was 'selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.'
'These baseless accusations have no merit and repeating them threatens the integrity of the justice system as a whole.'
