Weiss appointment as Hunter Biden special counsel is ‘joke’ and evidence of DOJ ‘weaponization’ says Rep. Comer

James Comer says Republicans on the Oversight Committee have ‘no confidence’ in Special Counsel David Weiss and insists his panel will continue its investigation into Hunter Biden.

The Oversight chairman said that Attorney General Merrick Garland‘s appointment of Weiss is ‘a joke,’ and says it only further proves the politicalization and weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

He told Fox News that one of the reasons a special counsel is unnecessary is because half of lawmakers and America don’t have confidence in him or the source of the appointment.

Weiss was the prosecutor that allowed the statute of limitations run out on a case against the Bidens and was behind negotiations of a now defunct sweetheart plea deal with the President’s 53-year-old son.

‘Well, this is a joke,’ Comer told Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Sunday evening. ‘All that Merrick Garland did was validate the point that many Republicans have been making – that the Department of Justice was weaponized.’

Oversight Chairman James Comer said Sunday evening that Special Counsel David Weiss’ appointment to hunter Biden’s case is a ‘joke.’ He told Fox News’ Trey Gowdy: ‘I have no confidence that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland would appoint anyone credible. I never dreamed he would do as bad as he did with Weiss’

‘I’ve been very vocal and saying we didn’t need a special counsel,’ Comer added. ‘I have no confidence that Merrick Garland would appoint anyone credible. I never dreamed he would do as bad as he did with Weiss.’

Rep. Comer (R-Ky.) insists the panel is also focusing-in on President Biden and his involvement in his son’s shady foreign business dealings.

‘We have a lot of crimes that were committed by the President’s son, but we’re concerned, as you know, about the President of the United States. We heard testimony just two weeks ago that he was a central figure in this,’ he said, referencing closed-door testimony with Hunter’s once long-time business associate Devon Archer.

Weiss on Friday was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as special counsel – a move which gives him broader day-to-day independence from supervision than previously, and which is designed to remove any suggestion that Weiss was being leant on by the White House.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) agrees with Comer that Weiss engaged in ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ by deliberately allowing potential charges to expire against Hunter.

Weiss is a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware who, for the past five years, has been investigating Hunter Biden.

Yet Turner told CBS News on Sunday morning that he did not have confidence in Weiss’s commitment to the case.

‘The concern here with Weiss being special counsel is that he was the one that allowed the statute limitations to expire on some very critical felony charges that could have been brought against Hunter Biden,’ said Turner.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed David Weiss (pictured) as the special counsel investigating Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business deals. Republicans immediately denounced the appointment as more proof the Justice Department is ‘weoponized’

Meanwhile, Comer told Fox later that evening something to the same tune.

‘Not only did Weiss drag his feet for five years and try to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with the President’s son, he also let the statute of limitations run out,’ Comer lamented.

‘That was one of the biggest complaints from the IRS whistleblowers when they testified before the Oversight Committee, was their frustration that they knew they were coming up on a hard stop as far as trying to prosecute the President’s son for obvious crimes of tax evasion and violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act,’ he added.

‘But Weiss intentionally let the statute of limitations run out.’

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