Republican Senators Push DOJ for Hunter Biden Special Counsel

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A number of Republican senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are pressuring Attorney General Merrick Garland to elevate the Department of Justice investigation into Hunter Biden by officially announcing a special counsel. The move comes after a number of FBI whistleblowers informed Grassley's office that agents were specifically told not to investigate Biden's laptop, which they had in their possession in the summer of 2020 and throughout the presidential election. 

 

"We the undersigned write to request that United States Attorney David C. Weiss be extended special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Eiden investigation. During your confirmation hearing, you promised to keep politics out of the Department of Justice' DOJ'. This promise has not been kept," a letter, signed by 31 Republican senators and sent to Garland...Read more, see tweet and video here.