A legal analyst at CNN is taking issue with the speed of the investigation into Hunter Biden.
During a segment on Monday, Elie Honig, a legal analyst for CNN, said, “This is preposterous!”
“This has been pending, according to our reporting at CNN since 2018, five years!” he noted.
Honig added, “This investigation is not the laptop. This investigation is a tax issue. Did Hunter Biden declare his income and a sort of obscure gun law? Did he possess a gun while he was addicted to drugs, which you’re not allowed to do under federal law? Did he lie about that?”
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CNN's Elie Honig says it's "preposterous" how long the DOJ's criminal investigation into Hunter Biden is taking: "It's beyond anything I've seen before" pic.twitter.com/NBOuNpawrf
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He also suggested the probe should be a “five-week investigation.”
“This spans the Trump administration and the Biden administration. Someone’s got to make a call on this case. I don’t know what is going on, but it’s beyond anything I’ve seen before,” Honig insisted.
Hunter Biden is facing an investigation into his taxes and whether he made a false statement related to a gun purchase.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported investigators “have believed for months there was enough evidence to charge him on tax and gun-related charges.” In October, the paper reported a final decision was on hold as there were ongoing discussions with Biden’s defense lawyers.
In April, attorney Mark Lytle sent a letter to Congress about an investigation his client, a criminal supervisory special agent at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has been overseeing.
The Wall Street Journal and CBS News reported the probe the letter is focused on is the investigation into Hunter Biden.
The letter claimed Lytle’s client’s information would “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee,” “involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” and “detail examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.”
Hong’s criticism comes days after Special Counsel Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified documents.
Smith hit Trump with 37 charges in the case, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of corruptly concealing a document or record, one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation, and one count related to making false statements.
He was appointed as special counsel to oversee the case in Nov. 2022.
