WASHINGTON – Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 29 Republican Senate colleagues in calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to grant U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the investigation into Hunter Biden.
 
The demand follows Grassley’s disclosure of whistleblower allegations that senior FBI officials sought to shut down verified and verifiable streams of derogatory information on Hunter Biden separate from the ongoing probe..
 
The Senators write:
“There is no way of knowing the entire scope of the investigation, but evidence 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 Attorney General Garland.
 
“Given that the investigation involves the President’s son, we believe it is important to provide U.S. Attorney Weiss with special counsel authorities and protections to allow him to investigate an appropriate scope of potentially 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.”
 
“Given the politicization of the DOJ under your watch and the importance of avoiding any appearance of impropriety, the undersigned request that you provide U.S. Attorney Weiss the full protections and authorities of a special counsel.  This is one important action that you can take that will go a long way in restoring faith in our governmental institutions.”
 
Following a years-long investigation, Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson released a September 2020  and November 2020 on the Biden family’s foreign financial entanglements, and made public additional bank records in a series of Senate floor speeches earlier this year. 
 
Along with Grassley, Cornyn and McConnell, today’s letter was signed by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), James Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Cynthia Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Shelley Moore-Capito (R-W.Va.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).
 
Full text of the senators’ letter is here.
 

 

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