Washington Post flip-flops on Hunter Biden plea
Conn Carroll
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What was once “a reasonable resolution” for Hunter Biden’s “tax and gun crimes” has suddenly become “suspect” and an indication that “Mr. Biden was being given special treatment,” according to the Washington Post editorial board.
Back on June 20, when the deal between Hunter Biden’s lawyers and U.S. Attorney David Weiss was first announced, the Washington Post rushed to praise the deal as “justified,” claiming, “The sitting president’s son being held accountable for underpaying his taxes illustrates that no one is above the law in the U.S. system.”
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But now, after actually reading the agreement, the Washington Post isn’t so sure.
“Initially appearing reasonable, the deal turned out to include peculiar details suggesting critics might have been justified to suspect that Mr. Biden was being given special treatment,” the Washington Post writes.
“Strangely,” the report says, “Mr. Biden’s attorneys and prosecutors appeared to have differing views about whether the president’s son could face further charges under the deal, spurring questions about whether the two sides came to any private understandings not spelled out in the written agreement.”
Except if you read the actual written agreement, it is clear that the deal was an unprecedented broad grant of immunity to Hunter Biden. According to the transcript of the hearing, that is exactly how the federal judge read the agreement too.
Considering that the grant of immunity was included in the diversion agreement to the gun charge, an agreement that is normally kept secret, and not the plea agreement to the tax crimes, a document that is made public, it’s almost as if Weiss was trying to keep the unprecedented nature of the plea deal a secret.
Which is just one reason why it is distressing that Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss to be the special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. Weiss just tried to sweep this whole affair under the rug a couple of weeks ago. The only person that prevented him from doing so was a sharp federal judge. Why should Weiss be trusted to investigate Hunter Biden fully now?
That the Washington Post editorial board was so trusting of Weiss before a federal judge blew up his plea agreement with Hunter Biden should tell you everything about how trusting they are of Weiss to investigate Hunter Biden now fully.
The Hunter Biden plea deal was immediately suspicious the second it was announced, and Weiss’s appointment as special counsel is just as suspicious.