‘I Saw A Pig Fly By My Window’: Fox Host, Jonathan Turley Mock WaPo’s Editorial On Hunter Biden Scandals

Fox News’ John Roberts and legal analyst Jonathan Turley mocked the Washington Post’s editorial board on Monday for its piece on the Hunter Biden scandal.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that Weiss would be appointed special counsel to continue the investigation into Hunter Biden. Weiss came under scrutiny after IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testified that Weiss was not in control of the Hunter investigation. Weiss allegedly told a group of law enforcement officials in an Oct. 22 email that he was “not the deciding person on whether charges [would be] filed” in the Hunter case. Weiss has denied the allegations.

Turley first criticized the appointment as hurting the public’s trust of the Department of Justice, arguing Weiss cannot be viewed as trustworthy amidst the whistleblower allegations.

“So the DOJ as we know on Friday petitioned the judge to vacate the plea deal that Weiss and his office cut with Hunter Biden, and even the ‘Washington Post’ editorial board took notice and said this remarkable statement in an editorial. ‘Initially appearing reasonable, the deal turned out to include peculiar details suggesting critics might have been justified to suspect that Mr. Biden was given special treatment,’ that in the ‘Washington Post’ and I swear, Jonathan, a few minutes ago I saw a pig fly by our window,” host John Roberts joked. (RELATED: CNN Analyst Says Hunter Probe Takes Away Biden’s Moral High Ground)

“Yeah, I mean, the level of reluctance expressed in those words is really quite impressive. The fact is that this plea agreement collapsed after only a few questions from the court, and one of the most remarkable moments was when the judge asked the prosecutor, ‘have you ever seen language like this before?’ And the prosecutor said ‘no.’ Well, that’s not a good sign when you are trying to sell this as just being handled like anyone else in the Department of Justice. This was a sweetheart deal. The problem is that you just appointed the man, special counsel who inked that deal, and that creates a certain conflict for Weiss. Is he willing to go back and say ‘you know what, we did allow some things to go by.’ If it was a new special counsel say look, I want to look at all this money that Congress has detailed, where taxes did not appear to be paid on. If there’s $20 million going to the Bidens, we don’t see $20 million worth of taxes — taxable income in these reports. All of that would be reexamined. But for Weiss to make that decision it would be a sort of self-indictment of what occurred before, which is why Garland needed someone new.”

“Last week I tweeted, or X’d or whatever it is that you do now, that the appointment of Weiss as a special counsel was going to make it difficult for a lot of our colleagues to ignore this story, and I think that editorial in the ‘Washington Post,’ some of the questioning we saw at the briefing today is an indication that people are sitting up and taking notice,” Roberts said.

Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart in late July after U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika scrutinized the sweeping immunity provision in the diversion agreement for Hunter’s felony gun charge, resulting in the DOJ and Biden’s legal team disagreeing about the scope of his potential immunity.