Special Counsel David Weiss defended his handling of the Hunter Biden investigation in a final report capping his multi-year probe into the president’s son.

Weiss pushed back against President Biden’s decision to pardon his son as he was facing both tax and gun charges in two different states.

“I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law. A unanimous jury-who found Mr. Biden guilty of gun charges-and Mr. Biden himself-who pleaded guilty to tax offenses-agreed. As I have done for twenty years, I applied the Principles of Federal Prosecution and determined that prosecution was warranted,” Weiss wrote at the top of the 280-page report.

But he swiftly criticized Biden’s handling of Hunter Biden’s November pardon, noting that the president had........

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