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Republicans have long been demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland

appoint a special counsel to conduct the criminal

investigation into Hunter Biden.

Their argument was obvious.

It is impossible for a Justice Department that answers to Joe Biden to conduct a fair and

sufficiently aggressive inquiry into the son of the president to whom the

DOJ answers. Those requests were long rejected with both Garland and the US attorney in

Delaware overseeing the case David Weiss offering this same justification

for why a special counsel wasn't needed. Mainly there has been no interference of

any kind from the Biden

G. OJ they said and they insisted Weiss has had full

unfettered authority to take their investigation

wherever it may lead.

As it turns out that investigation led virtually nowhere,

last month Weiss's office announced it had reached a plea deal with Hunter.

It was something a criminal defendant facing serious charges of tax evasion, gun charges, and fair violations could only dream of.

Under the deal offered to him, Hunter would plead guilty only the two misdemeanor charges and would not spend a day in prison.

But the Biden DOJ's attempt to shove that very generous agreement through the court system

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