Merrick Garland Sleight of Hand in Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Plea Deal

It has been quite something to watch Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss squirm.

Sweating him on one side are the credible whistleblower allegations by law-enforcement agents: He obviously told them that he was not the deciding official when it came to whether criminal charges should be brought against Hunter Biden. Pressuring him just as hard on the other side is Weiss’s boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who in his now-familiar slippery style insists that Weiss was always the deciding official and was instructed that, if he ran into any interference, he needed only to ask Garland for special-counsel authority and he would be permitted to file any charge in any district throughout the country, regardless of whether the Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in those districts agreed.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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It has been quite something to watch Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss squirm.

Sweating him on one side are the credible whistleblower allegations by law-enforcement agents: He obviously told them that he was not the deciding official when it came to whether criminal charges should be brought against Hunter Biden. Pressuring him just as hard on the other side is Weiss’s boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who in his now-familiar slippery style insists that Weiss was always the deciding official and was instructed that, if he ran into any interference, he needed only to ask Garland for special-counsel authority and he would be permitted to file any charge in any district throughout the country, regardless of whether the Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in those districts agreed.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.