DeSantis blasts ‘sham’ special counsel as Trump, GOP descend on IowaBy Mary Kay Linge
August 12, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced the special counsel assigned to the Hunter Biden case — adding to a chorus of GOP voices crying foul over the US Department of Justice’s handling of the probe.
“This is going to be a total sham special counsel,” DeSantis told reporters Saturday as he glad-handed voters at the Iowa State Fair.
“The House, they’ve been working on supposedly holding Hunter Biden accountable,” he continued. “I think they’re trying to checkmate that investigation … they’re trying to kneecap the House’s ability to investigate.”
On Friday, Republicans slammed Attorney General Merrick Garland’s sudden appointment of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, accusing the move as a White House attempt to “stonewall” the ongoing House probe and “whitewash” the Biden family’s suspected influence-peddling.
Weiss is “the same guy who had been doing it with kid gloves anyways,” DeSantis said — referring to the sweetheart plea deal that US District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected on July 26.
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/desantis-blasts-sham-special-counsel-as-gop-descend-on-iowa/
