{"id":30487,"date":"2025-01-14T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-hits-out-at-presidents-selective-prosecution-claim\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:59:33","slug":"hunter-biden-special-counsel-hits-out-at-presidents-selective-prosecution-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-hits-out-at-presidents-selective-prosecution-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden special counsel hits out at president\u2019s selective prosecution claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In report David Weiss sharply criticizes Joe Biden for maligning justice department when pardoning his son<\/p>\n<p>The criminal charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> \u201cwere the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics\u201d, the prosecutor who led the inquiries said in a report that sharply criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> for having maligned the US justice department when the president pardoned his son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,\u201d said Monday\u2019s report from special counsel David Weiss, whose team filed gun and tax charges against the younger Biden that resulted in felony convictions that were subsequently wiped away by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/01\/joe-biden-pardons-hunter\">presidential pardon from his father<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/14\/hunter-joe-biden-special-counsel-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In report David Weiss sharply criticizes Joe Biden for maligning justice department when pardoning his son The criminal charges against Hunter Biden \u201cwere the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics\u201d, the prosecutor who led the inquiries said in a report that sharply criticized Joe Biden for having maligned the US justice department when &#8230; <a title=\"Hunter Biden special counsel hits out at president\u2019s selective prosecution claim\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-hits-out-at-presidents-selective-prosecution-claim\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hunter Biden special counsel hits out at president\u2019s selective prosecution claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}