Justice Department Special Counsel David Weiss has released his final report on the six-year investigation into Hunter Biden, laying out what he asserts were the major crimes committed by the president’s son. What is perhaps even more remarkable is what he says about the president himself.

Regarding the first federal cases, Weiss concludes the younger Biden “consciously and willfully chose” not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes related to deals he made with the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Energy, as well as the Chinese company, CEFC.

In a separate case, Weiss discussed how he concluded Hunter Biden’s gun crimes.

“I considered Mr. Biden’s culpability. As a Yale-educated lawyer and business person, he understood that he was lying on the background check form he filled out and the consequences of doing so,” Weiss wrote. “But he did it anyway, because he wanted to own a gun, even though he was actively using crack cocaine. After carefully considering these factors, I determined that they weighed in favor of prosecuting Mr. Biden for the gun offenses.”

Hunter Biden wrote about his extensive drug use in his memoir, Beautiful Things, published by Simon & Schuster. The audio of Hunter Biden reading the book was played in court.

“Mainly, however, we just planted ourselves on the couch and smoked a ton of crack for endless hours day after day. It was the same numbing ritual over and over and over,” he said.

Hunter Biden was found guilty by a jury in Delaware for the gun case and pleaded guilty to the tax charges in Los Angeles.

Just days before his sentencing, President Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his son for any crimes he might have committed.

“If you look at the pardon that Joe Biden issued for us son Hunter, the dates are critically important,” said Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute. “Not only did he give a sweeping protection of him for any criminal conduct; it starts in January 2014, which is when the China deals, the deals with Ukraine and the deals with Russia begin. Curiously it carries forward to December 2024.”

Critics say the dates cover Hunter Biden for crimes the public might not know about, and for which now he can never be punished.

But the 27-page Weiss report is most notable for the scathing criticism of the president, who in his pardon, suggested the probe was politically motivated.

“As I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” he wrote.

Weiss wrote in his report, “The president’s characterizations are incorrect based on the facts in this case, and on a more fundamental level, they are wrong.”

He also wrote that “politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome undermine the public’s confidence in our criminal justice system.”

He pointed out, “Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations.”

In an interview Tuesday, former U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. agreed with Weiss’ decision.

“I think David Weiss correctly said, ‘Look I’ve got to defend myself. This was not a political prosecution. He broke the law. In other words, he possessed a firearm when he shouldn’t have. And he lied about the possessing of that firearm, and he didn’t pay his taxes,’ ” Fishwick said.

In a statement, Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said, “What is clear from this report is that the investigation into Hunter Biden is a cautionary tale of the abuse of prosecutorial power.”

With Republicans in the majority in the House and the Senate, some have already hinted they may reopen investigations into Hunter Biden and more so the role his father played in his business deals and how it could have affected U.S. national security.

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