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Special Counsel David Weiss, who presided over the indictments of Hunter Biden on federal firearm and tax evasion charges, balked at dismissing the cases against the presidential son who was just given a “full and unconditional” pardon by his father.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden flip-flopped on his pledge that he wouldn’t pardon his scoundrel son, an alleged ex-drug addict and sexual degenerate who was deeply involved in the family’s foreign corruption, shocking the country by granting him clemency and claiming that he was the victim of selective prosecution.
“I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement, referring to the cases in Delaware and California brought by Weiss, both of which are pending sentencing.
But the Justice Department prosecutor strongly disagreed, arguing in court filings that the indictments should not be dropped and objecting to the outgoing president’s characterization of the cases as politicized and that Hunter Biden was “singled out only because he is my son.”
“There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case,” Weiss said.
“The Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy,” he wrote in a filing to Judge Maryellen Noreika who presided over the Delaware gun case, responding to a motion by Biden’s attorneys to dismiss the indictment.
“That does not mean the grand jury’s decision to charge him, based on a finding of probable cause, should be wiped away because the defendant falsely claimed that the charges were the result of some improper motive or selective prosecution,” the prosecutor said.
“No court has agreed with the defendant on these baseless claims, and his request to dismiss the indictment finds no support in the law,” he wrote, adding the dismissal request should be denied.
In the California case, Weiss noted that Hunter Biden made eight motions to dismiss the indictment, “making every conceivable argument for why it should be dismissed, all of which were determined to be meritless.”
“Of note, the defendant argued that the indictment was a product of vindictive and selective prosecution. The Court rejected that claim finding that ‘[a]s the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without any evidence.’ And there was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case,” according to the filing.
“In total, eleven (11) different Article III judges appointed by six (6) different presidents, including his father, considered and rejected the defendant’s claims, including his claims for selective and vindictive prosecution,” Weiss said.
“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” Biden said in his statement announcing sweeping clemency for his son.
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