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Mollie Hemingway highlights DOJ’s Hunter Biden accountable ruse – nobody’s above the law?

August 13, 2023 | | Print Article

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!'”

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?”

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.

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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.”

What went ignored by corporate media was plain to see in reactions to Hemmingway’s summary.

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