Biden’s DOJ balks at ‘nonsensical’ claim Hunter was selectively prosecuted

“The Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy. But that does not mean the grand jury’s decision to charge him, based on a finding of probable cause, should be wiped away as if it never occurred,” Weiss wrote in a filing with the US District Court for the Central District of California that insisted Hunter’s tax case should not be dismissed by the judge despite the pardon from the president.

“It also does not mean that his charges should be wiped away because the defendant falsely claimed that the charges were the result of some improper motive,” Weiss wrote, pointing out that “no court has agreed with the defendant on these baseless claims, and his request to dismiss the indictment finds no support in the law or the practice of this district.”

Joe Biden provided a presidential pardon to his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, after repeatedly saying he would not do so. The president claimed he had changed his mind after considering that his son had been “treated differently” by his DOJ.

“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” the president wrote in his pardon announcement over the weekend.

“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” he claimed, adding that Hunter’s legal predicament was a “miscarriage of justice.”

Weiss noted in his filing that judges in both the California tax evasion case and the Delaware gun case dismissed the “nonsensical” position that Hunter was on trial due to selective justice. “There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case,” Weiss wrote.

“The defendant made similar baseless accusations in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,” he said. “Those claims were also rejected. In explaining why, the Delaware court exposed the nonsensical nature of the defendant’s selective prosecution claims.”

Hunter Biden was facing up to 17 years in prison for the tax evasion conviction prior to the pardon from his father.