Andrew McCarthy: Joe and Hunter Biden should not be investigated by special counsel
AG Barr should reject warped rationale of Trump for such a Biden probe
By Andrew McCarthy | National Review
I guess our destiny is to have to address this nonsense every few months, no matter which party is in charge of the government. OK, all together now: There is no good reason to appoint a special counsel.
This time, it’s President Trump and his most strident supporters pushing for it — yes, you heard that right: A president is taking the position that the Justice Department he runs is not up to the job and needs to bring in someone from outside. Sigh . . .
The president wants Attorney General Bill Barr to name a special counsel to investigate possibly actionable Biden family corruption, arising out of the habit Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, made of cashing in on the former vice president’s political influence — a habit Hunter shared with several other associates, including “Middle Class Joe’s†younger brother, Jim.
Obviously, such an investigation would pursue the reasonable suspicion that Joe Biden, the president’s rival in the imminent election, was well aware of what was going on, encouraged it, and profited from it.
In reality, whether the apparent corruption is actionable (in the criminal-prosecution sense) is a second-order issue, for reasons I will come to.
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