CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Joe Biden is maintaining mum about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s choice to call a particular counsel within the investigation of his son Hunter Biden.

Speaking at a information convention Friday on the conclusion of his Camp David summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden demurred when requested concerning the newest twist in his son’s authorized points. The feedback had been Biden’s first on the matter since Garland introduced final week he was naming a particular counsel into the probe of Hunter Biden’s monetary dealings.

“I have no comment on any investigation that’s going on,” mentioned Biden. “That’s up to the Justice Department and that’s all I have to say.”

Garland famous the “extraordinary circumstances” of the matter when he named David Weiss, the U.S. lawyer in Delaware who had already been probing Hunter Biden’s monetary dealings, as particular counsel after a plea deal over tax evasion and a gun cost collapsed final month.

The sudden flip of occasions has raised new questions concerning the case in opposition to Biden on tax evasion and a gun cost, deepening an investigation that appeared near decision simply weeks in the past.

With the particular counsel designation, Weiss gained broad authority to analyze and report out his findings. As particular counsel, he's additionally in a position to prosecute Biden in any district he deems applicable reasonably than solely in Delaware.

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