'This is why we have a Justice Department,' he said.
said Sunday in support of the naming of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case.to David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who has been investigating the president’s son for five years. “I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel,” Garland said.
Raskin said the upgraded status for Weiss serves to “formalize” his authority to pursue a case against Biden, wherever it may lead. “He wants to be certain that he has the authority to bring charges wherever he wants,” the Maryland Democrat said of Weiss. The ranking member of that House committee, Raskin said he was very much opposed to any presidential family members “who water-ski along for the ride” by using their family name to benefit financially, as Hunter Biden seems to have done.
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