The new twist in Hunter Biden’s case is a huge political headache for his father

 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/11/politics/hunter-biden-investigation-joe-biden/index.html

Given that Republicans have been calling for a special counsel for months, they might have been expected to celebrate Friday’s bombshell announcement.

But top GOP lawmakers immediately launched a flurry of attacks on Weiss, despite the fact that he was first appointed under Trump, claiming that far from insulating the case from political influence, his appointment as a special counsel was an attempt at a cover up. The GOP has turned against Weiss because he has not substantiated their evidence-free claims that Joe Biden conspired with his son to enrich their family while he was vice president and they also claim that the plea deal originally offered to Hunter Biden was a “sweetheart” agreement.