Ted Cruz calls Hunter Biden special counsel appointment ‘camouflage’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday he thinks the appointment of special counsel David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, in the Hunter Biden investigation is “camouflage” and a “cover-up.”

“This appointment is camouflage, and it’s cover-up. I think it’s disgraceful,” Cruz said in an interview with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on her show “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Listen, David Weiss was the U.S. attorney hand-picked to lead this investigation, who spent the last five years covering it up. David Weiss, who was personally selected by the two Democrat senators from Delaware, Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons.” 

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced last week he will be appointing Weiss as special counsel to oversee the investigation into the alleged tax and gun crimes of President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The appointment came as a pending plea deal for the president’s son appeared to be falling apart. 

“The investigation [into Hunter Biden] has gone nowhere, other than to protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Cruz said. 

Cruz is among numerous Republicans who have criticized the appointment, pointing to claims from two IRS whistleblowers that Weiss was blocked from seeking special counsel status, which both Weiss and the Department of Justice have repeatedly denied. 

“They [two IRS whistleblowers] said they’d never seen an investigation like this in their time in law enforcement,” Cruz said, citing the whistleblowers’ claims that Weiss “protected the Biden family.”

“The result of all that is that David Weiss was either an active participant in covering up this criminality and protecting Joe Biden in engaging in obstruction of justice,” Cruz said. “That’s option one. … Option two, he wasn’t the driver — he was just complicit.” 

Cruz went on to call the choice of Weiss as special counsel “wildly inappropriate,” saying that a special counsel should be investigating Garland for whether he lied under oath to Congress when questioned by Cruz. The Texas senator said a special counsel should also investigate uncorroborated allegations of the Biden family’s corruption and bribery while Biden served as vice president. 

“That is bribery; it’s not a little gun charge on Hunter,” Cruz said. “It is bribery of the president of the United States, is what these allegations are. And this special counsel, he ain’t going to do anything to get to the bottom of that.”