Merrick Garland's evil genius:
Appoint a screw-up appointed by Trump to place him and the Hunter investigation off the political stage at the Republican House hearings, and hope Weiss keeps screwing up.
Weiss has long maintained that Garland hamstrung his investigation of Hunter Biden, but on the other hand Weiss let both Lesley Wolf and long time close Biden family operative Alexander Mackler work in his office to deflect the heat on Hunter Biden according to IRS whistleblowers, which just goes to show that a poor appointment is a poor appointment. In addition to going soft on Hunter Biden, the plea agreement Weiss originally negotiated with Hunter Biden gave him a get out of jail free card.
How did Weiss miss that and the judge didn't?
Judge Noreika specifically balked at that on July 26th, contrary to what most drive-by media want you to think the blowup of the agreement was about:
However, near the end of the diversionary agreement was a paragraph
reading, in part, “The United States agrees not to criminally prosecute
Biden, outside of the terms of this Agreement, for any federal crimes”
committed by the first son for which the statute of limitations had not
already expired. ... US District Judge Maryellen Noreika smelled a rat, complaining that she
was not given a copy of the crucial paragraph until just before the
hearing began.
More.
Expect nothing satisfactory from Weiss' investigation going forward.