Trump vows to appoint special counsel to go after ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Biden

Former President Donald Trump vowed to appoint a special counsel to probe the Biden family’s overseas business dealings if he wins a second term in office.

While blasting the mounting legal complications in his path to the presidency one day after his most recent indictment, Trump claimed President Biden and the “Biden crime family will pay a price” for their alleged misdeeds.

“As soon as I am reelected, I will appoint a real special counsel or maybe you’ll call it a special prosecutor … to look at all of these bribes kickbacks, crimes as well as the shameless attempt to cover up,” Trump pledged. “Justice will be done.”

Back in the 2016 election cycle during the second debate, Trump similarly vowed to appoint a “special prosecutor” to examine Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Ultimately, he never pursued that option as president.

President Biden already has a special counsel — Robert Hur — tasked with investigating his retention of classified documents.


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Donald Trump has long bemoaned the investigations against him, alleging they are rife with partisan influences.
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Robert Hur has been tasked with investigating President Biden’s handling of classified documents.
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US Delaware Attorney David Weiss, the point person in the federal Hunter Biden probe, was elevated to special counsel status last week.

Additionally, congressional Republicans led by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) have been scrutinizing the Biden family’s overseas dealings.

The White House has adamantly refuted GOP accusations of Biden family influence peddling, insisting lawmakers lack proof.

To justify his call for a special counsel against the Bidens, Trump pointed to a recent Oversight panel report alleging the Biden family and its allies raked in over $20 million from overseas.

“What were they doing getting all of this money?” Trump exclaimed. “I believe we have a compromised president. He was bribed and now he’s being blackmailed. He’s a Manchurian Candidate.”


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The Biden White House has forcefully pushed back at GOP allegations of influence peddling, contending that they lack the proof.
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Donald Trump is facing 91 counts across four criminal indictments.
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The 77-year-old former president also laid out a litany of accusations, alleging President Biden was allowing China and other countries to “walk all over” the US.

He also dismissed Weiss’s recent elevation to special counsel as a ploy to “block further investigation.”

“It’s the very same US attorney who cut Hunter Biden the scandalous plea deal. That was such a scam,” Trump added.


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Donald Trump is the first current or former US president to face a criminal indictment.
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President Biden has largely been mum on the piling criminal indictments against his predecessor.
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Weiss was appointed under Trump’s administration, but the former president stressed he didn’t select Weiss and that his appointment came under the blue slip process in which senators from a given state support a judicial nominee.

Trump’s pitch for a special counsel against the Bidens comes one day after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis lodged a 13-count indictment against him and charged 18 of his allies as well for alleged Georgia 2020 election tampering.

The former president has denied wrongdoing in all pending cases against him.


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Donald Trump laid out his pitch for a special counsel in a post to Rumble.
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He is also facing a 40 (up from 37) count indictment for alleged retention of classified documents, four counts for the alleged 2020 election subversion case, and a 34-count indictment out of Manhattan over alleged hush money payments.

“They’re trying to step in my way at every path, because the one person they don’t want to run is Donald Trump,” he said.