As Hunter Biden continues to unleash profanity-laden attacks on Democrats, George Clooney, and others, it appears that former special counsel David Weiss is doing his own unloading. In a recent closed-door interview, Weiss said that he faced obstacles in his effort to prosecute the former President’s son, including a virtual boycott from DOJ attorneys in joining his team.
Weiss told the House Judiciary Committee staff that he struggled to staff his effort. He noted that he received no support from former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who many viewed as the practical head of the department as opposed to former Attorney General Merrick Garland. Notably, Weiss says that he thought that Monaco might have recused herself because he received no support or even interaction with her.
Weiss’s speculation on Monaco’s staff is curious. Usually, recusals are made known to other attorneys to create a wall of separation over any potential conflicts of interest. It is bizarre if Weiss still does not know if such a recusal had occurred.
In the meantime, Weiss said that he found himself an effective persona non grata within the department as he sought staff support. When he went to the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, he was told that they had received just one resume from an attorney willing to investigate the president’s son.
As opposed to investigating Trump, it appears that DOJ attorneys did not relish or support such efforts directed against the Bidens.
For his testimony, the Trump DOJ gave Weiss permission in a letter to talk to Congress about Hunter Biden’s cases. The department noted, however, that it could not authorize Weiss to talk about the former first son’s confidential tax information.
Weiss was asked about his failure to charge Hunter Biden under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Some of us wrote extensively about the strong basis for such a charge as an unregistered foreign agent given past charges brought against Trump figures and others.
Yet, as reported by Fox, Weiss “told the committee his team had no serious discussions about charging Hunter Biden under a foreign lobby law called the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”
That is bizarre and highly suspicious. Weiss showed a pronounced lack of aggression in the Hunter Biden case, including seeking a sweetheart deal that was widely denounced.
I have previously testified on the Foreign Agents Registration Act and have previously written about the disturbing disconnect in the treatment of the President’s son as opposed to figures like Paul Manafort.
The charge was always one of the greatest fears of the White House. If Hunter Biden were a foreign agent, it would magnify the influence-peddling scandal and further link his conduct to the work of his father as vice president and later president.
What was previously known about millions received from China, Russia, and other countries made such a charge obvious. In the past, the Justice Department has frequently used the charge in high-profile cases to pressure defendants and encourage cooperation or plea agreements. During the Trump Administration, an official could not visit Epcot without incurring a FARA charge from the DOJ.
This charge has been a favorite of the DOJ before the President’s son was implicated in a massive influence peddling scheme with foreign figures.
According to reports, Weiss seemed to shrug off the FARA question.
Weiss declined to answer many questions, suggesting that he was still limited in doing so. The Trump Administration should be able to remove all such barriers. Weiss has much to answer for in his tenure as special counsel. This is an important start, but should not be the end of the inquiry.
The Democrat king-makers must have known all about the Bidens when they anointed Joe Biden as their candidate to beat President Trump in the 2020 campaign. Nancy Pelosi and the Biden campaign bigwigs must have known Joe Biden was unwell and losing it mentally. Hence the basement campaign, designed to minimize voters’ exposure to the candidate. Democrat bigwigs must have known about the Biden family selling access to Joe Biden for decades. They must have known. They just. didn’t. care.
Yet, they now seem unable to understand why they lost the most recent presidential election.
News flash: Voters were disgusted with you, with your abuses of power, and with the feeble, venal, destructive two candidates you championed. Where did you find these people? How can it be that they were the best that you could come up with?
What is wrong with you?
They didn’t care because they knew they had the media in their pocket and nobody would point out that Biden was hiding in his basement.
HullBobby,
Six months in, Trump has answered unprecedented volume of media questions
“Six months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, he has given more access and answered more questions put to him by a largely hostile press than many of his predecessors.”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/six-months-trump-has-answered-unprecedented-volume-media-questions
Officials from both parties made a promise to GOD to follow the U.S. Constitution.
What reforms move us in that future direction? Simply making them uphold their sacred oath of office.
As I said at the time, Barr, Durham, Weiss are all swamp gators whose primary goal is tail protection not justice. They all owe the country an apology for the manner in which they investigated or didn’t investigate the swamp as they were charged and handsomely paid to do.
Mespo,
Were they swamp gators? Or as TiT suggests below, Obama and Clinton set a sense of dread and terror even among themselves to toe their line or else? Weiss not getting any cooperation, the two IRS whistelblowers and the obstruction they faced when they attempted to investigate Hunter Biden suggests it was a lot more then just one or two people.
Q: Where are George and Gigi these days?
A: Reincarnated as the rude, vehement “Anonymous” responding to all these posts
Sadly, “George” is still around, but yeah, the crazy Anonymous (not me) is probably Gigi, banned again for being so nuts.
that doesn’t stop “George” from posting obnoxious anonymous posts. I caught him once, when I responded to his “anonymous” post by addressing him as George, and he responded in substance, oops!
The Democrats have the Republicans over a barrel and the Republicans don’t see it. All the Republican outrage and investigations are about the past. While the Republicans bluster in their righteousness, the Democrats through academia, continue to brainwash a generation socialist leaning liberals who will over time have a greater influence over future elections. They are taught that the government owes everyone something and government safety nets remove all Americans from any responsibilities for themselves. Everyone needs to pay “their fair share” is their go to reasoning. While the government supports all of its citizens equally and will support the genuinely disadvantaged further to bring them up to reasonable living standards, ” their fair share” goes beyond anything that is reasonably fair. Why should successful people be required to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes at ridiculously high rates in the name of ” their fair share”. There is nothing fair about it. Republicans need to address the systemic brainwashing of America’s youth before it gets beyond repair.
No MAGA lawyer wants to prosecute Hunter Biden because there are much bigger targets to go after. Smart MAGA layers (if they exist) know that “influence peddling” is the Trump Administration’s motto and only the most die hard MAGAs won’t see the pure hypocrisy.
Ah, Trump, the only president in recent decades to leave office poorer than when he went in. Guess he’s incompetent with that supposed influence peddling, too. You’re just sad, go outside and get a life.
Since when is net worth a measure of corruption? Answer: never.
Hunter Biden is a disgusting POS.
Trump is a disgusting POS. “In 10 years I’ll be dating her,” referring to a 14 year old girl.
And? It’s not like what you insulated would be a crime.
Good one. Defend Trump, pos.
In this case, yes. There’s no crime in what you said. It may be uncouth but it’s not illegal to say that. We don’t police mere words like you leftists do.
Never Trumper. As opposed to MAGA fascist.
Uh huh. Just remember that the sum total of “never Trump” influence, considering the election, is at best zero. In the case of Liz Cheney, even Democrats admit she had a negative effect. So, please keep up with your never Trumpism, it only helps Trump and MAGA. Good job.
And guess what, you can “never Trump” all you want, they’ll still call you a fascist too, and lump you in with your despised “MAGA” cohort. What a sad life you lead.
I lead a sad life cuz, unlike you, I don’t enable a pedophile crime? Keep supporting Trump.
Not seeing the connection. And it’s “because” not “cuz”, you sound like a tweener.
So your major objection to what I said is using “cuz.” But you do not object to enabling pedophilia.
You lead a sad life because you are consumed by your hatred of a single man, even though whatever is left of your never-Trump movement is dead and lacks any influence whatsoever. You’re like a Japanese soldier still hiding out in the jungle decades after the war ended. But really, you’re even worse than them, as you’ve thrown in with your supposed ideological enemies because your hatred has overpowered all rational thinking. Go outside, take a walk.
You sound like someone who’s perfectly okay with Trump staging a model contest in his home with girls as young as 14 in swimsuits and inviting Jeffrey Epstein to it. And you are okay with it, because it happened and it’s on video.
In your case, never-Trumpism is merely a masturbatory activity which we witness every day.
Sometimes people like her have a problem admitting to themselves what they truly are. For example, this happens a lot with closeted gay people, though thankfully that’s becoming less of an issue as the social stigma has lessened dramatically.
In her case, she’s not a Republican at all, or even a moderate Democrat, but instead she’s gone full off the rails nutcase leftist. Trump’s platform is basically straight from Dick Gephardt in the 1990s. And I don’t recall anyone calling him a “fascist”. Like most never Trumpers, she’s caught up on the personality and not the results. It’s sad to see once respected people like Bill Kristol implode like this.
So, a discussion of pedophilia inspires you to use “masturbation” to illustrate your argument.
As an activity that generates temporary pleasure but serves no effective purpose otherwise, I’d say that the term sums up your rantings here pretty well.
The term is what comes to your mind when the subject of pedophilia is discussed. Own it.
Merely “uncouth?” You should never be allowed to be unsupervised around children.
I don’t know, I’d be much more worried about having Hunter or Clinton around kids than Trump. And for me, I’m defending free speech, I don’t know why you’d associate that with child endangerment. You need help.
You. You shouldn’t be around kids if you think the worst thing about saying you’d be dating a little girl in 10 years is only “uncouth.” Back to your trailer park.
“In 10 years I’ll be dating her,” referring to a 14 year old girl.
Now, I know that basic arithmetic is hard for you, but 10 + 14 = 24. And in the real world, we have this thing called “context” which you’re undoubtedly leaving out of your bizarre rant. It’s “pervy” for Trump, but somehow I’m sure you’d be perfectly happy to have an actual pervert like Clinton say the same thing. You need help.
Clinton is a perv. So is Trump. Sounds like you are, too.
Unlike most of the visitors to Epstein’s private island, who did not wait at all?
That’s (D)ifferent.
Not like hair-sniffer Biden’s constant alluding to the sexuality of young girls: “No dating till you’re 30.” To a brother: “You have ONE JOB.”
All documented on C-SPAN, on the days VP Biden swore in the new Senators.
Let Hunter rant away. His rants remind us of the low quality, lying, stealing, and corrupt Biden family. Hunter helps us to remember what we should not forget.
Hunter: the smartest man that the old man knew. Which, sadly, is probably true.
As hard as Weiss might look he could find no profiles of courage. The atmosphere was charged with the threat of repercussions handed down from Obama to Joe Biden. Fear stalked the corridors in Washington D.C. Joe often spoke of taking someone behind the Gym and beating the hell out of them. There’s no doubt that his words sent the message of a life destroyed as punishment to be expected for stepping out of line. Your gaze back over your shoulder was continually required resulting in no lawyer wanting to investigate the son of a President who received million of dollars from the governments of Ukraine and China. Your resulting fate would culminate in go to coach Biden’s office and bring your playbook. Thankfully the American people came to understand and kicked the Bud Lite can to the curb.
But the left thinks there is a chill on freedom because I late night show that was losing tons of money got canceled and the host gets to spew his hatred for ten more months.
HullBobby,
Funny how they scream it is all political, when reporting shows the CBS executives were discussing and considering canceling the show for months. Reporting also shows Colbert and the staff were informed about the possibility of the show being in jeopardy in early July.
Colbert was failing from the get-go. That’s why CBS had James Corden in the on-deck circle. But Trump-bashing finally brought in an audience, so he’s been riding that train ever since.
Upstate, if there was any “political influence” it seems to have manifested itself in Colbert’s losing show being allowed to remain on the air so long. Why else does CNN continue to circle the drain? Why does MSNBC continue to pay Madcow so much for one show a week? Why does ABC let the View stay on the air? They don’t mind losing money if it helps the cause.
TiT,
Well said.
All the more reason why Democrats need to be kept from the WH and having majorities in the House and Senate. We are now seeing the many levels of corruption, collusion and conspiracies they committed.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley condemns Clinton email coverup, ‘conspiracies to get Trump’
“Grassley released the contents of a classified appendix to a years-old Justice Department watchdog report earlier Monday, which showed then-FBI Director James Comey was swayed to preemptively announce the end of the bureau’s investigation into Clinton based on mysterious classified intelligence reports.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/chuck-grassley-condemns-fbi-handling-hillary-clinton-email-investigation
As we are seeing, the anonny moron is in a full panic about the bombshells DNI Gabbard has dropped, all the evidence coming to light. So, annony moron is desperate to deflect.
Wouldn’t the pardon of Hunter take the wind out of the DOJ wanting to spend time on his prior crimes?
But I hope they can at least expose the DOJ POSs who were stonewalling due to politics. They should all be fired and ostracized from the legal profession.
Trump: Making Pedophilia Great Again. Release ALL of the Epstein files.
I’d suggest that you should be worried about who on the left risks exposure (cough, Clinton) but leftists just throw the inconvenients under the bus. Unwanted babies, old people, politicos with no more use.
Keep flogging that horse though.
Would love to see Clinton put away. And Trump.
I’d suggest that in order to put Trump “away” you’d need an actual crime, but the last few years have shown that the left is perfectly willing to subvert and even invent laws as required. It’s going to take us decades to fix the damage that you nutcases did to our system of justice.
Best way to not have an actual crime is to not have actual Epstein files actually released. Then, you can actually sleep well knowing that whatever Trump is hiding by not releasing the files will never come to light.
The information will be released, such as it is, and it’s going to be a big nothing burger for everyone. Nothing of note is being hidden, other than probably the identities of the victims. Grow up already.
Biden’s DOJ prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, and got her convicted for procuring young girls for Epstein.
Obviously they would have had the client list at that time, because they possessed all the evidence against both Maxwell and Epstein.
So why did Joe Biden suppress the client list?
And why did Trump fire Maurene Comey? Did she make the client list disappear?
“Keep flogging that horse though.” Keep enabling pedophilia though.
“Keep enabling pedophilia though.” By wanting the full release of whatever “files” there are in this case? You’re a moron.
You seem to be happy that Trump is running away from releasing them.
I’m going to take a screenshot of this gem for later.
“running away” you’re such a joke.
Trump’s refusal to release the files enables pedophilia, and you enable Trump. Sick.
You’re just nonsensical at this point. We want the information to be released. We want Trump to release it. Trump will release it. What’s “sick” about that? What’s being “enabled”? You’re not very good at this trolling thing, maybe you should take a break, go for a walk.
Why does anyone think this is note worthy? Hunter Biden is a sad pathetic man who has lost his father’s influence and support. As Biden slips further into dementia, Hunter will be only surrounded by a family who needs to protect the family legacy. Joe Biden wanted a legacy — he has earned the one he forged over the last four years — a father who put his son above the country; a man who put party above country; and a man who was pushed to continue the farce of a competent President. Further still, every dollar spent on the support of illegals and the crimes against American citizens will be a his legacy. Joe Biden is lucky — he will forget. Dr Jill bears shame as do all the Bidens, staff and people who saw what was self evident– President Biden was not leading the country. Hunter Biden — with his foul language — proves that Biden knew his son was a time-bomb and that is why he was NEVER out of the sight of the President or Secret Service. Now, left adrift, we see who Hunter Biden is — a man whose mind is riddled with past drug use. Hopefully, Dr Jill can help him! Certainly there are few in this country who think Hunter is a man of consequence.
I do not believe a word. Clean the DOJ house. We know they slime will ooze back under the next Democrat administration but, as long as the Republicans are in charge, they cannot have snakes in their grass.
It’s the classic problem of DC: too many Democrats. Trump recognized this in his first term, and even now Patel is doing the right thing at the FBI by moving agents outside of the bubble. It’s an easy argument that a lot of the DOJ needs to experience the rest of America as well.
Weiss is telling a “could’a should’a would’a” sort of story — selective memory etc. We are going to hear a lot of this trash now that a floodgate has opened on secrets of the media, two Democrat administration’s conspiracies, two-tiered rotten justice system, and rush to throw as much public money at their pals as they went out the door. Democrats may be out of power right now, but they need to be further out of power — much further. A generation or two in the political wilderness, as they say, may not be enough to clean up their stink.
Kevin T Kilty,
Well said and I agree. We need the four years of the second Trump admin, eight years of a Vance admin and then another eight years of a Gabbard admin. The House and Senate need to stay out of Democrats control for at least that long. By then, maybe, the Democrat party could clean itself up and be worthy of voting for again. That is if the Socialist Democrats dont take over the party outright.
Democratic strategist James Carville said of his own party, “Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,”
Lay off the sauce this early in the day ole timer.
Next time try making an argument instead of ad hominem attacks. Just proves that you got nothing.
Daniel 2:29-44 prophesies the world power that’s existing at the time Christ’s kingdom is established! Does iron mixed with clay resemble any place you know? FYI Isaac Newton believed it would happen this century!
Cryptically written a long time ago. Oh wow, must be true, the Bible, Nostradamus, Popol Vuh, Völuspá, the Avesta, the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, Codex Borgia, I Ching, etc., etc. What moron would believe anything written by people who thought epilepsy was caused by evil spirits, that the entire earth was flooded, that diversity of human language originated in Babel, that the sun revolves around the earth, that stars which are millions of light years away can fall to earth. Stupid idiotic nonsense.
Weiss demonstrates the reality of gov workers to keep their heads down & being Sgt. Schultz-“I know nothing” and get paid.
What chance that any would be willing to release the Epstein files since it would expose their own inaction the past dozen years?
I’m afraid that there isn’t going to be much that will amaze us as we expose more and more of the labyrinth of corruption, collusion and perjury that was/is existing where ever prog/left activists had a hand. If we lose any control over our government to the progs in 2026/2028 these deep fetid secrets will become buried so deep that we will never know just how bad things got.
It is not surprising, considering humanity’s long record of deceit and corruption, but what is galling about this is that our founding fathers left us the means to avoid this, the caveat being that we remained a moral nation…oops, then along came Madalyn Murray O’Hair to finish what the transcendentalists had started and now we find ourselves without a rudder in a sea of the most base of human proclivities.
“I’m afraid that there isn’t going to be much that will amaze us…”…. “considering humanity’s long record of deceit and corruption,”. You pompous fool.
‘“considering humanity’s long record of deceit and corruption,”. You pompous fool.’
History always begins this morning, right? This is why we study the classics, humans do not change, the same patterns hold over time. You fail to realize this in your zeal of making “modern man”.
David Weiss is nothing more than an intellectual fraud. Apparently, it is a family trait.
More libel. Gosh, commenters here are so stupid.
Way to generalize based on almost no data. You must be clairvoyant. And yes, you are stupid, so I guess you might be right after all.
Duh?
Try reading up on Weiss’s old man’s history and note where the $ came from for David’s education. Then re-read the article above along with numerous other sources about Weiss’s action as “special counsel”. Then ask yourself why is this guy now being questioned by Congress? And if that does not make you wonder, then ask yourself why would a US attorney District Attorney that ‘struggled’ his his efforts and ‘ received no support’ from his bosses when he was made ‘special counsel’ continue on in that seemingly compromised role? By staying in that role for years and knowing he was compromised, he is admitting to be either remarkably stupid or intellectually dishonest in a capacity that exceeds most ordinary humans. Thus, Weiss is an apparent fraud intellectually, professionally and as a human.
Weird how GOP faithful…barely say anything!
Heck I couple put virtually all the Bidens, Pelosis, and many others in jail just from WHAT I KNOW!
The faithful? If it’s not in their purview, why would they comment?
And what do you think you know?
I’ll answer that: Got facts?
Didn’t think so.
pretty clear the DOJ and Congress…PROTECT THEIR OWN!
I want people jailed by the 10000’s for what has happened since Obama became president!
DC and big Democrat States are completely OUT OF CONTROL!
Democrats are fighting a CIVIL WAR against America!
You’re ranting. You make no sense. Please… shut up.
Yes, I could not understand how both Hunter and Manafort got paid by Ukrainian politicians, yet Manafort racked up so many more charges — e.g. FARA, foreign bank account, income tax, etc.
Was the crackhead really more diligent than Manafort? Seems unlikely.
People like Manafort are a dime a dozen in DC, and none of them ever have the DOJ sit on them like this. It’s pretty obvious why Manafort was different, it’s a classic DOJ/FBI tactic, they were trying to pressure him into turning on Trump. Even though there was nothing to “turn” in his case.
If we want to rise above corruption, collusion, blackmail, etc we must demand that all of this be exposed. Of course we won’t get this since man’s sense of self-preservation trumps all but for the most G-dly among us. The best we can do is expose what we can and hope that the amount exposed is enough to create a righteous indignation for the prog/dems.
I doubt that will happen because far too many are either connected to, or ignorant of, the depth of deceit and corruption just surfacing within the last 6 months. Everyone says “move on” and concentrate on the future, the hitch in that being we would be building our new house on swamp land filled with disease.
If we are to save the original ethos of our nation we must expose AND PUNISH, all those who damaged/destroyed our faith in the constitution and those who would offer themselves as public servants of “We The People”.
You laugh at such a notion, considering the average human’s proclivities, but many a great nation perished because of a lack of cultural values.
But keep the Epstein files hidden right? Cuz, Trump…
Not really the burn that you think that is, considering that whatever they have will indeed be released. I guess that you’re suggesting that Trump has something personal to hide? Well, he doesn’t, sorry to burst another leftist delusion.
To save time later, I’ll just express my condolences now about what a perv Clinton was.