WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A U.S. Attorney hired by former President Donald Trump chose not to take actions alerting the American people to the fact that Hunter Biden, the troubled son of Trump’s then-opponent and now-President Joe Biden, was under federal investigation before the election, effectively denying the public information that may have informed their decision in November 2020.
Politico reported that last summer Delaware’s U.S. Attorney David Weiss agreed to hold off on seeking search warrants and issuing grand jury subpoenas related to the foreign business dealings and potential tax violations of the 51-year-old Biden, and that he specifically did so on the advice of unidentified “officials involved in the case” who wanted to avoid the “possibility that the investigation would become a months-long campaign issue.”
“To his credit, [Weiss] listened,” one person “involved in the discussions” said, claiming that any potential case against Biden “has way more credibility now.”
Whatever the presidential son’s legal future may hold, however, the decision greatly benefited Hunter’s father at the time.
Democrats impeached Trump in early 2020 for asking the Ukrainian government to help investigate Joe Biden’s role as Vice President in the ouster of a prosecutor who had been investigating Hunter’s business
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