by James Lynch at National Review
Justice Department prosecutors pushed back on Hunter Biden’s claim that he is a victim of selective prosecution due to pressure from Republicans, arguing in a Friday court filing that the first son is advancing a “conspiracy theory” to avoid taking responsibility for his alleged violations of federal tax law.
Hunter Biden’s guilty plea deal on two tax misdemeanors and pretrial diversion agreement for a single felony gun charge fell apart in July after a dispute between his lawyers and the Justice Department over an immunity provision inside the diversion agreement.
“From this fairly unremarkable set of procedural events, the defendant concocts a conspiracy theory that the prosecution has ‘upped the ante’ to appease politicians who have absolutely nothing to do with the prosecution and are not even members of the current Executive Branch,” Special Counsel David Weiss’s legal team wrote in the filing.
The prosecutors point out that former president Donald Trump is not running the executive branch, and Weiss was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland, an appointee of Hunter Biden’s father, President Biden.
“Second, to state an obvious fact that the defendant continues to ignore, former President Trump is not the President of the United States. The defendant fails to explain how President Biden or the Attorney General, to whom the Special Counsel reports, or the Special Counsel himself, or his team of prosecutors, are acting at the direction of former President Trump or Congressional Republicans,” the court filing states.
Weiss and his line prosecutors go on to describe…
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