DOJ protecting Biden?

 Andrew McCarthy:

Biden Justice Department prosecutor and “special counsel” David Weiss’s job is to protect President Biden. That is the thing we must always bear in mind, including in the peculiar case of Alexander Smirnov, whom Weiss has just indicted and imprisoned in a transparent attempt to knock down an allegation House Republicans foolishly ran with when it was both uncorroborated and not essential to their illustration of the Bidens’ sleazy relationship with Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company.

Another thing to remember: According to Democratic Party dogma, all evidence of the Biden family influencing-peddling business — and of the president’s being up to his neck in it — is Russian disinformation. It’s a laughable assertion, but Democrats touted it like there was no tomorrow during the 2019 Trump–Ukraine impeachment. It’s their story and Weiss is helping them stick to it.

As I pointed out in a column yesterday, the indictment filed against Smirnov by Weiss last week is one of the most peculiar charging documents you’ll ever encounter. It was filed in the Central District of California, headquartered in Los Angeles — you may remember it as the district in which Weiss, cross-his-heart, really, really wanted to indict Hunter Biden on tax charges but, he told investigating IRS and FBI agents, was blocked from doing so by the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney, E. Martin Estrada. At least that was the story until the outraged IRS agents went public. At that point, Weiss needed a new story to avoid embarrassing his boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who would not have tolerated such obstruction unless it was exactly what he wanted when it came to Hunter Biden. So Weiss reset: Gosh darn, it was all a big misunderstanding.

But, of course, there is no misunderstanding: The Biden Justice Department did not want to indict Hunter Biden, despite a wealth of incriminating evidence. That’s why Weiss sat on his hands for years as the statute of limitations gradually made charges disappear — especially charges arising out of influence-peddling from 2014–16, when Joe Biden was vice president.

It’s also why Weiss initially tried to close the Hunter probe without charges until the IRS whistleblowers’ revelations made that politically impossible. At that point, recall, Weiss tried to disappear the case with a sweetheart plea deal so preposterous, so in defiance of normal Justice Department practice, that he and Hunter’s lawyers couldn’t slide it past an alert federal judge who asked a few basic questions that turned out to be unanswerable.

Only when the plea bargain blew up did Garland, in a “Clean Up on Aisle Five” move, appoint Weiss as special counsel. It was a Biden DOJ classic: The point of a special counsel is to bring in a lawyer from outside the government because the DOJ has a conflict of interest that prevents it from prosecuting the case ethically; so, in violation of the special-counsel regulations, Garland appointed not only a lawyer from inside the government, but Weiss himself — the very lawyer from inside the Biden Justice Department whose prior years of undermining the case perfectly illustrated that the Biden DOJ was hopelessly conflicted, protecting the president rather than enforcing the law.

And then, naturally, Weiss did his part. First, he indicted Hunter on gun charges — only after delaying so long that Hunter now has a potential Second Amendment defense that would not have been legally available to him years earlier, when Weiss should have been charged him. Subsequently, he indicted Hunter on the tax charges (at least some of the ones that were still left after Weiss made sure the worst of the Burisma-related crimes were now time-barred). Based on this, as night follows day, the media–Democrat complex crowed: See what an honest, ethical DOJ and “special counsel” we have here — indicting the president’s son without fear or favor! And that sure has fooled enough of the gullible and partisan that Weiss’s reputation-rehab project is at least a partial success.

But it’s a joke.
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There is much more.

The Biden family's influence-peddling operation is almost ignored.  Considering that it was the family business that is quite a move.  Ignoring the statute of limitations to benefit the Bidens is also quite a trick.