Joe Biden's DOJ appoints David Wife's special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation,

and we examine why that's a cover-up.

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So it was only a matter of time until the true cover-up of the cover-up began.

So in order to understand why the Joe Biden DOJ just appointed David Weiss,

special counsel in a case he was already investigating. You have to

understand the timeline. So basically, Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, has been under investigation

since 2019. He's been under investigation for a wide variety of tax offenses. He was also

under investigation for gun crimes. Well, just a few weeks ago, it turned out that a plea deal

had been cut between David Weiss, who was the

U.S. attorney in charge of prosecuting and investigating the Hunter Biden case and Hunter

Biden's legal team. And that plea agreement was a sweetheart deal, without a doubt. The way

the sweetheart deal worked was this. Essentially, he would get no time whatsoever for any of his

tax crimes. And he would also get no time. He'd get a diversion

for his gun crimes. But not only did the plea deal do that, it also basically immunized him

from all further criminal charges with regard to anything tax or funding related, which of course

is all the Hunter Biden and Joe Biden stuff. That's all of his foreign agents registration act violations. That's him going abroad, picking up sacks of cash and questioning whether those crimes involved Joe Biden. All of that would have just gone away. And the DOJ tried to bury this in the deal. The DOJ, instead of putting this in the plea agreement with regard to the tax charges when they went to court, instead, they put it in the diversion agreement with regard to the gun charges so that it was not actually under the purview of the judge who was presiding over the tax charges, but it would be left to the judge to actually enforce that plea agreement nonetheless. The judge caught on to this. The judge said, hold up a second. I don't understand. Are you guys basically wiping away all of his other crimes with this plea agreement, or are you not? And at that point, the DOJ, which was, in fact, attempting to wipe away and cover up all of Hunter Biden's other crimes with the plea agreement, at that point, they got caught with their hands in the cookie trying to say, no, no, no, no, no, no, we weren't trying to wipe away all these future crimes. And when they said that, Hunter Biden's legal team was like, well, then we don't have a deal. What do you think this deal was? You think he was just going to plead out on the tax charges and the gun charges without wiping away all future prosecutions on similar charges, like the corruption with Joe Biden or the foreign agents registration act issues? You think we were just going to sign our names on the dotted line for a kind of quasi-sweetheart deal? know, we want the whole thing. Otherwise, we're going to court. And the DOJ said, well, we were going to give you the whole thing, but then we kind of

got caught giving you the whole thing. And the entire arrangement blew up. The judge in that case

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