Hunter Biden Prosecutor Needs Special Counsel Status To Protect Investigation, GOP Senators Say

Republican senators are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to grant a prosecutor investigating President Joe Biden’s son special counsel authority.

A group of over 30 GOP senators wrote Garland a letter, first reported by Fox News, on Friday pushing for a special counsel to protect the ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into Hunter Biden from politicization. The senators cited whistleblower accounts alleging that top officials at the FBI quashed concerning reports about the Biden scion prior to the 2020 election.

“[E]vidence seems to be mounting that Hunter Biden committed numerous federal crimes, including, but not limited to, tax fraud, money laundering, and foreign-lobbying violations,” the senators wrote. “Given that the investigation involves the President’s son, we believe it is important to provide U.S. Attorney [David] Weiss with special counsel authorities and protections to allow him to investigate an appropriate scope of potential criminal conduct, avoid the appearance of impropriety, and provide additional assurances to the American people that the Hunter Biden investigation is free from political influence.”