“If you want to grasp just how cynical and performative Republican Party politics are these days,” JohnCassidy writes, consider the reactions to the decision to elevate David Weiss to the status of special counsel.
This past Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated U.S. Attorney David Weiss to the status of special counsel.If you want to grasp just how cynical and performative Republican Party politics are these days, consider the reactions to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to elevate the U.S. Attorney David Weiss, whose office has been investigatingfor years, to the status of special counsel.
Representative Pete Sessions: “AG Merrick Garland hired a Special Counsel who he knew would not investigate Biden’s illegal behavior while he was VP.” In private, of course, Republicans know that Garland’s elevation of Weiss was a political victory for them, because it appears to legitimate, at least to some extent, their obsessive focus on Hunter Biden. Unless thebetween Hunter Biden and Weiss’s office on tax and gun charges gets resurrected and is approved by a judge, the legal saga seems likely to continue through the 2024 campaign.
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