Washington David Weiss the Donald Trumpappointed US attorney who on Friday was named a special counsel leading the investigation into President Joe Bidens son Hunter . The appointment marks another dramatic development in the longrunning probe into Hunter Biden which began in and at one time concerned multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Joe Biden was vice president . Weiss the Delaware US attorney met in April with Bidens attorneys who had requested a routine status update on the investigation and it had appeared in June that the probe was near its end with a plea agreement . Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony gun charge . However in a court hearing last month the deal nearly collapsed after a federal judge slammed the intertwined deals as unprecedented and asked the Justice Department and Bidens lawyers to file additional legal briefs defending the constitutionality of the deal . House GOP members on Friday questioned whether Weiss could be trusted and reiterated calls for Weiss to testify before Congress to . Weiss said the plea talks between the two parties broke down following the court hearing . In a court filing Friday Weiss says the plea deal broke down after the hearing . The White House and bidens legal team were not informed beforehand about the appointment . Weiss is a member of the Delaware and Pennsylvania bars. The appointment of a special prosecutor has been described as ‘not to be denied anything that he needs. It has been called for by Republicans who have previously criticized the Justice. Weiss is described as ‘totally inappropriate’ and ‘underesterestated’ by the White House to be an ‘undecundable” and ‘unacceptable’ to be a lawyer. The resignation of a lawyer and ‘undundated”
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