In a final report on his investigation, special counsel David Weiss said President Biden's criticism 'undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable.'
A November 29, 2024 photo shows President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Mass.
Biden last month signed a full and unconditional pardon for his son, after earlier promising not to do so, after saying"raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.""Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations," he wrote.
Both of the prosecutions were brought by Weiss. The cases were rooted in a period of time when Hunter Biden was wrestling with the death of his brother, Beau Biden, and struggling with his own addiction to crack cocaine. In the report, Weiss said he brought the charges independent of any politics, and purely because Hunter Biden broke federal laws."These prosecutions were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics," he wrote in the report."Calling those rulings into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable.
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