Special Counsel Asks Judge To Keep Hunter Biden’s Indictment on the Books Despite Pardon, Denounces ‘Baseless’ Claims of Prosecutorial Bias

David Weiss says that while Biden will not face punishment, he is still a guilty man and his crimes cannot be ‘wiped away.’

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Special Counsel David Weiss is pushing back at demands by Hunter Biden's attorneys to dismiss the indictment due to his pardon. AP / AP

Special Counsel David Weiss is seeking to have at least one of Hunter Biden’s indictments stay on the record to make clear that, while he will escape punishment, Mr. Biden is far from an innocent man. Mr. Weiss is also pushing back hard at the argument made by the younger Mr. Biden’s legal team — and by President Biden himself on Sunday evening — that the prosecution was political.

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