BREAKING: Merrick Garland appoints David Weiss as special counsel

[mountaineer]

Gov. Asa Hutchinson
@AsaHutchinson
The purpose of a special prosecutor is to instill public confidence that a case will be investigated & handled justly. AG Garland’s appointment of David Weiss—who doesn’t seem up to the task—does nothing but create more doubt. A new special prosecutor should have been appointed.
6:16 PM · Aug 11, 2023

[mystery-ak]

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
Until a special counsel is appointed to investigate Joe Biden the rest is of little consequence. Hunter Biden is covering for his dad. Joe is covering for his son. Make no mistake, none of the criminality was possible without Joe selling his office to one foreign enemy after another, or knowingly being used as a co-conspirator. Communist China didn’t pay tens of millions for nothing. They got their man. They got their policies. The coverup continues. Garland is leading the coverup as AG, as he is leading the effort to imprison Donald Trump. Obviously, he desperately wanted to be a Supreme Court justice, was embittered when he was rightly stopped, and in his mind is getting even.

[Bigun]

Remember, when Biden's DOJ and Hunter's lawyers meet, they're not negotiating. They're conspiring.

 

[LMAO]

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
Until a special counsel is appointed to investigate Joe Biden the rest is of little consequence. Hunter Biden is covering for his dad. Joe is covering for his son. Make no mistake, none of the criminality was possible without Joe selling his office to one foreign enemy after another, or knowingly being used as a co-conspirator. Communist China didn’t pay tens of millions for nothing. They got their man. They got their policies. The coverup continues. Garland is leading the coverup as AG, as he is leading the effort to imprison Donald Trump. Obviously, he desperately wanted to be a Supreme Court justice, was embittered when he was rightly stopped, and in his mind is getting even.

And imagine him on the Supreme Court.

[corbe]

   Maybe he'll do as good of a job as this Special Counsel.    /s

[corbe]

   Hopefully someone here can remind me of who appointed Weiss in the first place, Buellar?

[Cyber Liberty]

   Hopefully someone here can remind me of who appointed Weiss in the first place, Buellar?

I know too, so what?

[corbe]

  These people seem to be coming out of the woodwork to bite his azz.

[mystery-ak]

I am so upset over this I could cry and have...Didn't Comer or ANYONE see this coming...Weiss will now run out the clock on the few important Hunter crimes that the statue of limitations are soon to expire,

So this Biden mafia gets by with treason and all the other crimes they have committed...

[libertybele]

I am so upset over this I could cry and have...Didn't Comer or ANYONE see this coming...Weiss will now run out the clock on the few important Hunter crimes that the statue of limitations are soon to expire,

So this Biden mafia gets by with treason and all the other crimes they have committed...

I'm not surprised. The Biden's, Obama's, Clintons, on down the line will never be held responsible.  They've insulated themselves too well within the deep state. Yes, it is sickening, disgusting and disheartening.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1690148927763361792

[Bigun]

   Hopefully someone here can remind me of who appointed Weiss in the first place, Buellar?

The Commie senators from the state of Delaware @corbe 

[Hoodat]

Has a special counsel ever been used to investigate someone not in government?

[Free Vulcan]

Has a special counsel ever been used to investigate someone not in government?

Interesting question, by doing this they are inadvertently admitting there's a corrupt stank around JoePedo.

[mountaineer]

Greta van Susteren says Garland has violated the law in appointing Weiss.

Oh brother….A/G Merrick Garland did not read the statute before making David Weiss Special Prosecutor; Weiss is currently employed by the govt (US Atty/Del)…I think we need a special counsel but let’s follow the law in picking and let’s pick someone from the middle of the country who is not cozy with DC..or gave some bizarre sweetheart deal to his target

https://twitter.com/greta/status/1690344010068451328

[mountaineer]

Garland’s Special-Counsel Appointment in the Biden Probe Is a Farce
U.S. Attorney David Weiss is clearly ineligible for the job, and he has been appointed to it to cover up rather than uncover the Bidens’ corruption.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
August 11, 2023 4:06 PM

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of the Biden Justice Department’s Delaware U.S. attorney, David Weiss, as a special counsel is a joke.

To begin with, Weiss is not eligible to be a special counsel under the special-counsel regulations. To be clear, the attorney general has all the authority he needs to assign Weiss to the case (and, indeed, Weiss has been assigned to it throughout Garland’s tenure).

 But under the regulations that Garland purports to be applying, what makes a special counsel special is that he or she is a lawyer brought in from outside the government, not just outside the Justice Department.

As Section 600.3 of the regulations states without ambiguity, “the Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”

The point of the exercise is to bring in a scrupulous, experienced former prosecutor who does not work for the incumbent administration, because there is a connection between the president and the investigation that creates a profound conflict of interest for the Justice Department. There could not be a more serious, blatant conflict of interest than a situation in which the president’s Justice Department is conducting an investigation of the president’s son that implicates the president in potentially impeachable conduct.  ...

More at National Review

[LMAO]

I'm not surprised. The Biden's, Obama's, Clintons, on down the line will never be held responsible.  They've insulated themselves too well within the deep state. Yes, it is sickening, disgusting and disheartening.

True

But what to do about it? Hillary should have been charged for her email scandal and wasn’t

Who’s going to hold these people accountable? I don’t see anything happening to the Biden crime family

[Hoodat]

Does this mean the House investigations of Hunter can't request evidence....???

It means they cannot compel David Weiss to testify as to what he knows.  This is the purpose of the move.  A House had called in Weiss to give testimony.  This move by Garland effectively blocks that from happening.

[mystery-ak]

Hunter Biden Lawyer: Making Weiss Special Counsel Just Changes His Title, Garland Said Weiss Already Had Full Power

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell stated that David Weiss has no more power as a special counsel than he did before and noted that both Attorney General Merrick Garland and Weiss himself “have said for weeks, months, that he had all the authority he needed to bring any charge that was merited, at any time that was appropriate, in any place that made sense. … So, from a practical point of view, nothing really changed.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/11/hunter-biden-lawyer-making-weiss-special-counsel-just-changes-his-title-garland-said-weiss-already-had-full-power/

[mystery-ak]

Jake Tapper questions 'odd' special counsel appointment of David Weiss: 'Maybe the whistleblowers were right'
Tapper argued that 'some of the political questions being raised by Republicans have merit'

"I think there are some legitimate questions about this whole situation," Tapper said on "CNN News Central." "First of all, I do think it’s fair to question why would U.S. Attorney Weiss be appointed to special counsel. Usually, a special counsel is an outside attorney. Now, it has happened before. Durham came from inside, and the attorney general has the right to do that, but it is odd."

more
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jake-tapper-questions-odd-special-counsel-appointment-david-weiss-maybe-whistleblowers-right

[Right_in_Virginia]

   Hopefully someone here can remind me of who appointed Weiss in the first place, Buellar?

@corbe

Greta Van Susteren
@greta

And here is something you should know: yes, Weiss is a US Atty appointed by Trump and that is what the WH repeatedly mentions.…but but but..do you know how this is done?

US Attys are chosen on the recommendation of two US senators in the state…and BOTH SENATORS in Delaware are Democrats…it doesn’t necessarily mean someone is unfair but the White House needs to quit trying to pretend the appointment of Weiss by Trump is something it is not.

12:53 PM · Aug 11, 2023

[Right_in_Virginia]

Catherine Herridge (Video)

https://twitter.com/SteakforPodcast/status/1690136008833339395

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jake Tapper questions 'odd' special counsel appointment of David Weiss: 'Maybe the whistleblowers were right'
Tapper argued that 'some of the political questions being raised by Republicans have merit'

"I think there are some legitimate questions about this whole situation," Tapper said on "CNN News Central." "First of all, I do think it’s fair to question why would U.S. Attorney Weiss be appointed to special counsel. Usually, a special counsel is an outside attorney. Now, it has happened before. Durham came from inside, and the attorney general has the right to do that, but it is odd."

more
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jake-tapper-questions-odd-special-counsel-appointment-david-weiss-maybe-whistleblowers-right

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11

Remember, a SPECIAL counsel is not the same as an INDEPENDENT counsel. David Weiss, who will be investigating Hunter Biden, will report to Merrick Garland and ultimately Joe Biden.

The man investigating the son is accountable to the father.

1:17 PM · Aug 11, 2023

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Greta van Susteren says Garland has violated the law in appointing Weiss.

https://twitter.com/greta/status/1690344010068451328

Trump has no room to complain about this given that John Durham was appointed Special Counsel while serving as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut. 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

   Hopefully someone here can remind me of who appointed Weiss in the first place, Buellar?

Exactly.  Trump can appoint whomever he wishes as U.S. attorney, and does not have to follow the requests of that state's Senators.