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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shared what he called a “key takeaway” from Tuesday’s testimony by special counsel David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who spent years investigating allegedly nefarious foreign business dealings involving Hunter Biden.
The Daily Wire reported that Weiss told lawmakers that he requested but never received special attorney authority that would have given him the power to bring charges against Hunter outside of his jurisdiction in Delaware last year without having to partner with the local U.S. attorney, a top congressional investigator said.
Jordan said that statement, which belies how Weiss “pretends that somehow he did have that” authority, was “the key takeaway” from the transcribed interview the special counsel did on Tuesday after negotiations with the Department of Justice.
“He won’t answer a lot of questions. But that’s the key takeaway, because this whole deposition was about the changing story we got from DOJ, regarding the authority that he had,” Jordan said, according to a post to the X…
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