Weiss is the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware, and he began investigating Hunter Biden before Joe Biden took office in 2021. Garland allowed Weiss to continue the probe and, in 2023, he made Weiss a special counsel — a status that gave Weiss greater independence to investigate and bring charges.

The U.S. special counsel who prosecuted Democratic President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden called the president's criticisms of the cases "gratuitous and wrong" in a final report on his probe published on Monday.