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‘Maybe the whistleblowers were right’: Special counsel news not sitting right with one CNN host

August 12, 2023 | | Print Article

CNN anchor Jake Tapper seems to have had an epiphany after the appointment of David Weiss as the special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, asserting that maybe the whistleblowers got it right after all.

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Republicans do not trust US Attorney David Weiss and feel he is compromised in the Hunter Biden case. On Friday, Tapper commented that some of their concerns may “have merit.”

Weiss is the federal prosecutor who gave Hunter Biden a “sweetheart” plea deal on numerous charges that would have landed anyone else in prison for a lengthy stretch. Instead, he got probation with strings. The judge in the case did not approve of that deal and it fell apart. Weiss was already overseeing the case but suddenly Attorney General Merrick Garland decided to make him special counsel, engendering allegations that it is a coverup of a coverup.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a scathing statement, calling Garland’s appointment “part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup in light of [House Oversight Republicans’] mounting evidence of President Biden’s role in his family’s schemes selling ‘the brand’ for millions of dollars to foreign nationals.”

“I think there are some legitimate questions about this whole situation,” Tapper remarked on “CNN News Central” on Friday. “First of all, I do think it’s fair to question why would US Attorney Weiss be appointed to special counsel. Usually, a special counsel is an outside attorney. Now, it has happened before. Durham came from inside, and the attorney general has the right to do that, but it is odd.”

Tapper also wondered aloud why the person who was responsible for the “colossal failure” of the Hunter Biden plea deal would get the job while alluding to questions about whether the original deal was “strong enough.”

He broached the issue that Weiss already claimed that he had the power to charge outside of Delaware before he was made a special counsel. He then brought up the fact that Weiss has made conflicting claims about his power in private versus in public according to whistleblowers.

“The Justice Department and Weiss denied what the whistleblowers were saying, but this move makes it seem as though, well, maybe the whistleblowers were right. Maybe what they were alleging is true, and he didn’t have the ability to charge whatever he wanted to charge, and now he does. So I do have a lot of questions about that, and I do think some of the political questions being raised by Republicans have merit,” Tapper contended.

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Tapper and CNN correspondent Kara Scannell also discussed the appointment Friday, “David Weiss has been investigating this for about five years, I think it’s a legitimate question, why now, why did he ask just on Tuesday for special counsel powers? He had asserted in writing that he had all the power he needed.”

This seems to be a major shift from the day before when Tapper grilled Comer over whether there was proof that the Biden family had done anything illegal, despite bank records that indicated over $20 million was wired to them by foreign entities. Tapper said it appeared “sleazy” but not criminal.

“So let’s pause it for the sake of argument that Hunter Biden is sleazy and the president’s relatives tried to profit off the Biden family brand, something CNN has reported on, what’s new in this memo?” he said at the beginning of the segment before claiming he saw “no evidence” that President Biden did anything wrong.

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Comer asserted that a number of agencies were allegedly blocking the investigation from moving forward.

“The Biden attorneys are obstructing, they’re intimidating witnesses, the DOJ will not cooperate with us, the FBI will not cooperate with us, the IRS will not cooperate with us,” he told Tapper during the interview. “Thank God we had whistleblowers from the IRS testified to our committee that they were told to stand down by the DOJ.”

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley has previously testified that Weiss told multiple witnesses that he was advised by the DOJ that he couldn’t bring charges against Hunter Biden in California or Washington, DC. Garland denied interfering with the probe.

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