Republicans are eager to speak to special counsel David Weiss, the lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case, after Attorney General Merrick Garland deferred several questions about the case to Weiss to answer.
Garland was grilled by House Judiciary Committee Republicans at a hearing Wednesday over allegations that the Department of Justice mishandled its yearslong investigation into President Joe Biden's son, but the attorney general repeatedly indicated he has stayed out of the investigation, leaving a number of questions unanswered."Mr. Weiss was a longtime career prosecutor. President Trump appointed him," Garland said at one point.
Jordan, as well as other Republicans on the committee, including Reps. Mike Johnson , Dan Bishop , Matt Gaetz , and Tom McClintock raised concerns about Hunter Biden with Garland that largely centered on testimony from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers that the case had been"slow-walked" by the federal government.
Confronted about allegations by the whistleblowers that Weiss had allowed statutes of limitations to lapse for crimes that could have been committed by Hunter Biden in 2014 and 2015, Garland said,"The explanation for why the statute of limitations was lapsed, if it was, has to come from Mr. Weiss."
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