The Justice Department’s appointment of a special counsel may have played well for corporate media, but one commentator cut through the narrative to sum up what amounted to a “DOJ coverup.”
Whether or not the walls were really closing in on the Biden family for alleged influence-peddling remains unknown do to the active nature of the investigation. However, the correlation between recent developments in the House investigations, Hunter Biden’s trashed plea deal and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s naming of a special counsel painted enough of a picture for The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway to apply the finishing touches.
Following Garland’s Friday announcement that he was appointing Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the probe of Hunter Biden’s suspected corruption, Hemingway produced a summary of how that boiled down.
“Sweetheart plea deal for President’s son. DOJ: ‘See, nobody is above the law!’ Guy who approved sweetheart deal for Hunter named special counsel, in brazen attempt to harm oversight into Biden family business scandals and DOJ coverup of same,” she wrote Saturday. “DOJ: ‘See, nobody is above the law!'”
Sweetheart plea deal for President’s son.
DOJ: “See, nobody is above the law!”
Guy who approved sweetheart deal for Hunter named special counsel, in brazen attempt to harm oversight into Biden family business scandals and DOJ coverup of same.
DOJ: “See, nobody is above the law!”— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 12, 2023
As reported, Weiss had been overseeing the probe of Biden over the past five years and, in the wake of a proposed plea deal getting squashed by Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika who ordered attorneys to find a constitutional resolution, had requested Garland name him special counsel.
Hemingway’s summary was akin to her initial reaction upon learning of the appointment when she posted to X, “This move is designed to prevent any oversight or accountability of Weiss’ coverup of the Biden influence peddling operation and crimes associated with it.”
Meanwhile, one of Biden’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell, had attempted to downplay the appointment of Weiss as though it were little more than a change in title for the role he already played.
“He has a new title. His powers, in our view, are the same,” he contended to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “The evidence hasn’t changed. The law hasn’t changed. So, why after grand jury proceedings, search warrants, interviews and proceedings that came up with two tax misdemeanors and one diverted gun charge, for the 11 days that Hunter possessed a gun, should there be a conclusion, notwithstanding that he has a new name, that should not be the case?”
Nervous? CNN host bluntly asks whether Biden will be linked to Hunter’s business deals https://t.co/4wBYrqlOIK via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) August 12, 2023
Conveniently left out of Lowell’s assessment regarding the special counsel was how that appointment appeared to be, as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) indicated, an obstruction of “congressional investigations.”
“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption. If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel? House Republicans will continue to pursue the facts for the American people,” he wrote Friday.
This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption.
If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel?
House Republicans will continue to pursue…
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) August 11, 2023
By contrast, Hemingway pointed to comments made by Judge Tanya Chutkan, overseer of the case former President Donald Trump was indicted on for alleged 2020 presidential election interference, and how her expressed view of the president on the record would seemingly be enough to warrant recusal.
“How is the person allowed to oversee this trial?” she asked sharing a post from journalist Julie Kelly who had highlighted a quote from Chutkan on a J6 court filing, “It’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”
How is this person allowed to oversee this trial? https://t.co/6NF5n6DK8Y
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 12, 2023
What went ignored by corporate media was plain to see in reactions to Hemmingway’s summary.
Nobody is above the law, but they can be quite protected by it.
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) August 12, 2023
Can you imagine if this happened to be Trump’s son? Media would feast on the story 24/7.
— Carl Gottlieb (@c_cgottlieb) August 13, 2023
Listened to @NPR yesterday reporting that DJT stated “without evidence” the DOJ is protecting the Biden family. So dishonest
— Erik Warga (@erik_warga) August 12, 2023
The DOJ is the Biden Crime Family protection racket.
— Fighting the Left 24/7 (@RiskyBizzzz) August 12, 2023
We all knew this was coming. There was no way Biden’s DOJ would actually hold Hunter accountable. Democrats are corrupt to their core and control every major institution in America.
— Peter Garrett (@TheUnrealPeterG) August 12, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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